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...Bronx, jobless Charles Steinman became father of his ninth child...
...organization is Clifford Odets, who has revealed himself as not just an actor of bit parts, but as a playwright who can turn out the sort of thing the Group wants to do. Unconsciously he gathered material for Awake and Sing! during his 20- year residence in The Bronx. Now 28, he spent his professional apprenticeship as a spear-carrier on the road in stock and with the Guild, serving as a radio announcer in between times. He wrote Waiting for Lefty while the Group was in Boston last year. He says he wrote part of Awake and Sing! while...
...Sweepstakes Committee. Last week while the race was being run, hundreds of optimistic individuals who had bought sweepstakes tickets sat glued to their radios in the U. S. If the Lord Mayor's prediction, of which they were entirely unaware, came true, it meant $143,000 to a Bronx housewife, a Philadelphia bartender who had signed his ticket "Five Glasses," the wife of a hotel proprietor of Olney, Ill., a Toronto x-ray technician and one Ann Goldberg of Philadelphia, as well as smaller prizes for hundreds of others whose names', addresses and reactions the U. S. Press...
Awake and Sing! (by Clifford Odets; Group Theatre, Inc., producer) is an earnest investigation of the home life of a family of Bronx Jews. The burden of Playwright Odets' lament is that the Bergers and their friends would not be so wretched if it were not for the crushing tyranny of the capitalist system. Grandfather Berger, an old Marxist, would not be compelled to jump off the roof in despair. Daughter Hennie would not have to marry a simpleton after Moe Axelrod, the embittered disabled veteran, gives her a baby. Son Ralph would not have to pine...
Because she was six years old, Jeanne Vizetelly Cochrane had a birthday party at her home in The Bronx, N. Y. Because she is the granddaughter and favorite prodigy of famed old Lexicographer Frank Horace Vizetelly, editor of the Standard Dictionary, all her friends and relatives gathered for news of her linguistic prowess. At the age of 18 months Jeanne had mastered 300 words. When she was 4. her grandfather placed her vocabulary at 5,800, listed the words to prove it. Proudly, last week, Grandfather Vizetelly reported: "Jeanne has learned 2,000 words this year. She will continue...