Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Clean-Scrubbed Kansas. His opening curtain rose on a prairie-farmyard scene. His characters were plain, salt-of-the-earth folk: a grandfather (Basso Normaiv Treigle), a mother (Contralto Jean Hand-zlik), daughter Laurie (Soprano Rosemary Carlos) and a pair of drifting farmhands. The plot, such as it was, moved from Laurie's high-school pregraduation party through a brief, unrealistic courtship ("I'd like to have a wife for a while," sang one of the drifters), and ended on a symbolic note by sending the girl off in search of her future...
...second paragraph of the "sovereignty" manifesto made plain what the Kremlin's brand of "freedom" amounts to: "The Soviet Union retains . . . those functions which are connected with the safeguarding of security." The Red army, in other words, will continue to maintain its 340,000-man garrison in East Germany, a dagger directed at NATO, a club to be used against the East German people should they rebel again against their Red masters...
...weeks, stocks of the traditionally boom & bust aviation industry have been Wall Street favorites. This week, as four of the nation's biggest planemakers released 1953 earnings, the reasons were plain: not only were profits at or near record levels, but the industry's backlog (nearly $17 billion) assured at least two more years of financial feasting...
...Roach's production this year will top the combined footage of Metro Goldwyn Mayer, 20th Century-Fox and Warner Bros. Right from the first, says Roach "it was plain that this hungry TV medium could only be fed with film." But the casualties were high. Banks refused to lend money. The major studios refused to let their stars appear in TV shows. Of some 500 embryo TV filmmakers, only 46 survive, and only half a dozen make sizable profits. Roach aims solely at producing entertainment by assembly-line methods, says: "It's like the auto business...
Denney's satire is a fitting comment on all of the "Four Plays for a Plain Stage." Deliberate obscurity and a false esoterica make the first two seem dull and meaningless. On the other hand, Three Words in No Time and September Lemonade show how well the one-act form can be used...