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Inside U.S.A. (suggested by John Gunther's book; music & lyrics by Arthur Schwartz and Howard Dietz; sketches by Arnold Auerbach, Moss Hart and Arnold B. Horwitt; produced by Mr. Schwartz) opened to splash notices and may well run for two years. All the same, some first-nighters found it the least enjoyable Bea Lillie show in a long time. Not that it is really bad or botched: it is all thoroughly professional. It is also thoroughly unoriginal and unexhilarating; it not only fails to shed light of its own, but even dims the cherished Lillie luster...
Despite all the publicity Maurice Schwartz and the Yiddish Art Theater have received in New York during the last few years, and despite the favorable criticisms received by the company from the New York critics, there remains a tendency not to believe without seeing. Bostonians now have a chance to see at the Plymouth Theater, where 1947-48's smash, "Shylock and His Daughter," is staying for a five-performance...
...Schwartz's reputation, if last night's performance is an example, is well deserved. With a powerful voice, mature stage presence, and a masterful variety of interpretive effects, Schwartz dominated the stage as he went from pity to scorn, from anger to tragic resignation. Other parts were well-played...
Predictable Ruts. Significantly, the best of Spearhead's younger writers are turning away from technical experiments. In John Berryman's fine story, The Imaginary Jew, in Delmore Schwartz's poetic probing of the Oedipus complex ("the child must carry his fathers on his back"), and in Randall Jarrell's savage war poetry, verbal high jinks are replaced by untortured statement and controlled emotion...
...Dance Committee chairmen from each of the seven Houses and Dudley Hall. Present members include: Cunningham; Edward L. Maguire '46 Eliot); Henry W. Muller '48 (Leverett); J. Rosson Overcash '49 (Kirkland); Douglas Lenkoski '46 (Adams); Samuel M. Robbins '45 (Dunster); Warren C. Smith '48 (Lowell); and Seymour Schwartz '48 (Dudley...