Word: drama
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...transferring this doleful drama to film, the producers have also transferred (without improving) the novel's main dilemma. Boiled down it is: how to make convincing the relationship between a father, who behaves like a doting old maid, and a son, who is a little too bad to be true...
...last fortnight marble-eyed, pudgy Circuit Judge Thomas J. Rowe handed down a decision dismissing extortion charges against Putty Nose Brady. (Big John had already been acquitted on one charge, has another hanging over him.) The Post-Dispatch editorialized scornfully: "Those hardy spectators, who gathered in the hope that drama . . . would unfold, saw what fell little short of a burlesque on justice...
...Algiers, shortly before his sensational trial for pederasty, Oscar Wilde said to French Novelist Andre Gide: "Would you like to know the great drama of my life? It is that I have put my genius into my life-I have put only my talent into my works." Like many another Wilde wisecrack-Biographer Winwar believes-that one had a solid core of astute truth, and contained a clue to Wilde's ripe mixture of estheticism and grossness, charm and repulsiveness, sincerity and exhibitionism. His genius consisted in living, in the most hostile environment possible-Victoria's industrial England...
...have already proved themselves in debating societies, glee clubs or drama leagues will find themselves particularly adapted to the airwaves. Experience, however, is not a necessity, as the microphone produces starting changes, and a Ned Sparks will often find himself transformed into a William Jennings Bryan...
...Huey Long and a Father Coughlin; but last night at Sanders Theatre you were a dud. You had heard that the Student Union was going to present a play entitled "Waiting for Lefty". Someone had told you--for it's not likely that you read any contemporary drama but your own--that it was a leftist play. You sallied forth to go through your usual paces. This time, though, you looked off form. No one laughed. No one pledged you his vote for next election. An exasperated audience, after a pathetic prologue which might have been called "Waiting for Mickey...