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...daughter of a Southern mill-hand, she poses as an aristocrat from Virginia. Into their marriage comes Mike Ambler, a reasonably accurate facsimile of William Saroyan, whose new play is about to open on Broadway. Ambler takes a fancy to Pason, tears down his reserves, and just as the critic is becoming stale, brings out the human qualities in him. But Ambler also falls in love with Lisa. The night of the opening of Mike's play the crisis comes: Lisa prepares to run off with Mike and Jason fights back with the only weapon he has--words. As Jason...
There are serious flaws in the script, but Raphaelson writes clean-cut dialogue with some stimulating conversation between critic and playwright. Had he been content to omit the love angle and concentrate more heavily on the conflict between the two men, there would have been a better play...
...scantiest clothes available. These, together with plenty of steam-room antics and off-color dialogue, turn Hopwood's tale of a professor (Buddy Ebsen) who is completely unnerved at the sight of exposed female flesh into the likes of a burlesque show. Good Night Ladies, as Chicago Tribune Critic Cecil Smith put it, satisfied "every taste except good taste...
John Steinbeck wrote the novel in 1935, and found his first public. Dramatist Jack Kirkland (Tobacco Road) made it into a dirty, dismal, unsuccessful play in 1938, and socked a drama critic* for saying so. It went to Paramount Pictures for peanuts ($4,000) and, after some customary Hollywood sleight-of-hand, wound up at M.G.M...
...Individuality and originality of the Russian composer Rheinhold Gliere were emphasized by Alexander Hertz, distinguished composer, conductor, and critic in a lecture before the Symphony Club last night...