Word: making
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...check the result, a tablet of nitroglycerine is dissolved under the patient's tongue. The drug enlarges his constricted arteries and allows a potential victim of heart disease to make a better score on the flicker photometer test. When the drug wears off, the retina again loses sensitivity...
Thomas Stanley Matthews, 48, born in Cincinnati, was educated at Princeton and Oxford, started in journalism as a proofreader and make-up man at the New Republic, and later became associate editor. Joining TIME as Books editor in 1929, he was appointed assistant managing editor in 1937, executive editor in 1942, managing editor...
...play be put on by Theatre Incorporated, a non-profit group which sent him handsome royalties in 1946 from its hit revival of Pygmalion. "I take no interest in nonprofit enterprises," he wrote. "I am in business and prefer to deal with keen business managers who are out to make as much money as possible...
...Shaw made one concession: he reluctantly agreed to shave his usual royalty from 15% to 10%. Yielding to the argument that the production would be expensive in view of the two stars' salaries, he cautioned: "I am depending on you not to make your salary list so heavy that the play will have to be taken off in a fortnight unless it attracts capacity every time . . . When negotiating with stars, remember that in my case, I am the star ... So few managers know their own business that I mostly have to make their bargains for them as well...
...just that Playwright Kanin sets theater above drama, but that he displays an almost equal lack of respect for his sordid material and his own talent. The one concern with squalor is to make it picturesque at all costs; with vulgarity, to exploit it for laughs. In the end The Rat Race gets nowhere; worse, it gets dull, repeating a lot of facile tricks and typifying a theater where, more & more, clever playwrights write everything but plays...