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...came a diagnosis that was news to no one: the theater suffers from a tangled complex of ills, overwhelmingly economic, with most theater people ready to put the blame on the other fellow. Chief causes of high ticket prices: the high costs of theater rentals, sets, props, costumes, labor and the fumbling inefficiency of some producers...
...municipal hovel, a mining town on a vast scale. It gobbled up people the way it gobbled up iron ore-people with the names of Scotland, Ireland, Germany, Poland, Italy, Hungary, Yugoslavia. Some 1,000,000 of them lived and worked in the city's whole industrial complex, some 700,000 lived within the city's limits...
...kept control of them through two World Wars and innumerable political upheavals by means of a bewilderingly complex holding company, incorporated in Belgium, called SOFINA (Société Financieère de Transports et d'Entreprises Industrielles)* The value-and power-of SOFINA is Heineman's secret. But its five-year battle with March over Ebro makes E. Phillips Oppenheim's stories read like fairy tales. Says Dannie Heineman, with icy anger: "I'm no angel, but I've always been a builder. Juan March has always grabbed what he wanted. He wanted Ebro...
...complex political and economic uncertainties are being focused not on a program of constructive consideration and remedy but on an essentially negative fear of Communism," President Jordan said...
Happily, Mr. Evans' operatic tendencies were not in evidence (except in the second play where they were quite in order), and he performed subtlely and sensitively, with his usual technical excellence. His wife, an equally complex but less developed character, was portrayed with understanding by Edna Best. A competent cast supported the stars in both plays...