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...Fish, Little Fish, the girls' school was a boys' school, the seduced girl was a boy-and the cast's private title for the play, Big Swish, Little Swish. The plot change may start Broadway theatergoers thinking. What do people in New Haven know about Willy Loman that others don't? Was Blanche DuBois named Bernie in Philadelphia...
Hardly had General Electric and the International Union of Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers started bargaining in Manhattan last week for a new contract, when the loman G.E. delegation simply rose and stomped out. The reason was-as a G.E. flack discreetly put it-that I.U.E. President James B. Carey shouted "a twice-repeated command of obscenity" at Philip D. Moore, chief G.E. negotiator...
...they seem not nearly so dull and small as they are supposed to (next to, say, Willy Loman they are a riot of color), it is probably because they are English. Their very ordinariness has the charm of the foreign and strange and picturesque; perhaps, also, English vulgarity is simply not so vulgar as ours...
Thomas Hill took the title role of Willy Loman. This type of part is exactly his dish of tea; he was utterly convincing at every moment, and compared favorably with his local predecessors in the role--Lee J. Cobb, Thomas Mitchell, and Dean Gitter...
Olive Dunbar made a wonderfully warm and pathetic Mrs. Loman. She was fine all the way through until her closing monologue in the Requiem, which proved a bit too much for her. Robert Evans '59 and Robert Blackburn were a fine pair of errant sons; and John Peters '52 made a splendidly materialistic Uncle...