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...Irwin Shaw performed an auto-autopsy on his play, The Survivors, which folded after eight performances on Broadway. Following his own advice to drama critics (TIME, March 25, 1946), Critic Shaw was all sympathy: "Somewhere in the middle of rehearsals [the authors†] discovered they wished to rewrite the script almost entirely." But "the theater today has . . . the quality of a conveyor belt [which] moves in an inexorable rhythm toward the set moment at which the finished product must be taken off the line and sold. This may be all very well for an automobile...
...meet as often as possible until a solution was reached. Then they went to lunch. Next day, Pakistan's crescent-bearded Foreign Minister, Sir Mohammed Zafrullah Khan, replied to the Indian. For 3¼ hours (breaking Andrei Vishinsky's U.N. record of two hours), he spoke without script, working only from notes passed up on an assembly-line basis by his advisers. On the third day, Sir Mohammed spoke 2½ hours more. His gist: India was lying, was itself guilty of racial war against Pakistan or-in U.N.'s own word for it -of "genocide." Cried...
...worked exceedingly hard to become an Englishman (he studied a recording of an Anthony Eden speech), he remains unmistakably American in appearance and bearing. A tremendously cagey and accomplished actor might conceivably have made a convincing character out of this attorney, in spite of the inadequacies of the script. Peck is not yet cagey or accomplished enough. He carries his trial scenes with considerable style; and he comes close to some first-rate acting in his difficult crack-up scene. But his lawyer is never one of the most brilliant in England, as the story claims; the role...
...will hold casting early next term. The script calls for 13 to 14 chiefly major parts and a chorus for which the group plans to use women speaking separately, Kilty said...
...wordy script is often highly entertaining; yet some of the sharpest stuff is purely visual. (Most wicked shot: the union hall, dominated by a gigantic photograph of The Leader, beneath which the platform officials, wearing their hats, recall the hardest of the old gangster pictures.) The Senator is a collaboration by a trio of expert funmakers: Producer Nunnally Johnson, Director George Kaufman and Scripter Charles MacArthur. There is also an unusually sassy musical score by Daniele Amfitheatrof...