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...need Thy help to do something about the world's true problems-the problem of lying, which is called propaganda; the problem of selfishness, which is called self-interest; the problem of greed, which is often called profit; the problem of license, disguising itself as liberty; the problem of lust, masquerading as love; the problem of materialism, the hook which is baited with security...
...York City Theatre Company) is an almost ostentatiously neglected comic masterpiece. It could, without doubt, be shorter. But 300 years after it was written and long after alchemy† went out of fashion, the play still teems with hard, bawdy, farcical fun; still gives that well-mated couple, greed and gullibility, a handsome thrashing; still rushes ahead with a plot that the great Samuel Taylor Coleridge adjudged "one of the three most perfect" in literature...
...chief moral problem: an industrialist (Edward G. Robinson) faces ruin if he is scrupulous enough to reject some defective war material. Moved by greed and devotion to his family, he passes the defective material along. He also tricks his partner (Frank Conroy) into taking the rap. Thousands of miles away, young men in U.S. uniforms die because of his crookedness. His younger son-rather uncon-incingly-commits suicide in protest; his elder son (Burt Lancaster) returns home to ferret out his secret. The father becomes at last fully aware of the dimensions of his crime and of the shallowness...
...helping to wreck his life. Adult readers who take it for granted that a child's mind is an uncomplicated, open book may find themselves appalled by Miss Barker's chilling expose of little Richard Tustin's craftiness under a surface of bland innocence, his greed for power and his contempt for weak grownups...
Howard Hanson, director of the Eastman School of Music, asserted last night that radio had "capitulated to greed" by turning over to advertisers network time formerly devoted to music. Hanson opened the Louis C. Elson Memorial Music Lectures at Paine Hall...