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When The Players revived it in Manhattan in 1933, Critic Percy Hammond claimed he detected tears in the eyes of such sophisticates as Edna Ferber, Rollin Kirby, Katharine Hepburn...
...burly Justice John E. McGeehan, good Catholic, good Democratic "organization judge," got the case. Before him last week appeared Lawyer Goldstein with his plaintiff and four of his Lordship's published works,* proceeded to review the offending books. Said Critic Goldstein, Philosopher Russell's writings are "lecherous, salacious, libidinous, lustful, venerous, erotomaniac, aphrodisiac, atheistic, irreverent, narrow-minded, untruthful and bereft of moral fiber." Furthermore, he roared, the Earl had run an English nudist colony, gone in for salacious poetry, winked at homosexuality...
...fiction-tells the story of the South Chicago "riot" on Memorial Day 1937, in which police killed ten pickets at the Republic Steel mill. Mob-size, its cast includes nine dead pickets (who get individual background stories); a young Jewish doctor who rapidly develops from bystander to alarmed social critic; a welter of organizers, stool pigeons, scabs, Senators, professors, company executives, reporters, cops, lawyers. "By using only actual, attested events as materials," says Author Levin, "the writer reduces the possibility of arriving at false conclusions." Far less objective than this apologia suggests, Citizens is an ambitious technical experiment...
Like all self-respecting clubs, The Lambs has its traditions. No woman may ever brighten its doors. No dramatic critic (as with The Players) may ever become a member. Every rector of Manhattan's Church of the Transfiguration ("Little Church Around the Corner") is made an honorary member of the club, as the result of an oft-told anecdote: When Joe Jefferson sought to bury an old Lambs actor, he was turned down by the snooty rector of a Fifth Avenue church, who loftily suggested that he "try the little church around the corner." Ever since, the "little church...
...Institute's art school sat on the jury, gave the prizes to their pupils. This year Institute Director Daniel Catton Rich sent out ballots to 1,091 eligible artists and asked them to elect their own jury. The results seemed about the same. "Dull mediocrity," said Critic Clarence Joseph Bulliet of the Chicago Daily News. Top prize, the Logan Medal and $500, went to Lawrence Adams for his bright, thinly painted West Side in Winter...