Word: shop
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...time when theatre managers are soothing the world's troubled brow either with raucous comedies or lavish musicals, "Boyd's Shop" blows into the Copley Theatre like a clean wind. It is a simple play about simple people with all the home-grown philosophy that is bound to blossom in Ulster. But St. John Ervine has put no haloes around his country folk; no sickening sentimentality. Instead, in the clash of old and new in rural Ireland Ervine has found the same problems which thrive in the largest city. And far from being "small townish," his characters...
Probably the greatest weakness of "Boyd's Shop" is its lack of excitement and pace. It is a dreamy play, built on the serenity of Ulster life, particularly the life of three years back when the bottom had not fallen out of Europe. And Ervine has to make up for this deficiency by characterizations which are skilfully executed, and problems which have far more universality than the limits of Donaghreagh...
...deftness of his unravelling. It is a conflict of mellow experience against the force of change which comes crying to the small village in the person of the Reverend Ernest Dunwoody (Hiram Sherman) and the new grocer (William Post, Jr.), bent on taking the trade from Boyd's shop...
...Copenhagen, he went to the U. S. at the age of six, started out as a magician in St. Paul, Minn., after watching The Great Herrmann do his stuff at the opera house there. Besides operating a show of his own, Jansen at one time ran a magic shop in Chicago. Eventually Jansen helped Thurston produce his shows. Shortly thereafter, Thurston and Jansen formed a corporation named Dante the Magician Inc. Three years later Thurston made Dante a present of the name. By 1930 Dante had bought out the magical assets and good will of their firm. Biggest illusion created...
Among the "chiselers" to take advantage of this frozen price situation was a midtown Manhattan shop, Quality House. Last spring, selling well under list, it was haled to court. The store's attorney was slight, fast-talking Charles W. Newmark, formerly an aide of Gangbuster Tom Dewey. He began looking for an angle. On May 23 he found it, rocked the Council on its heels by charging restraint of trade. "By threatening to boycott distillers' brands," said he, "[the Council has] compelled and coerced distillers and distributors to adopt this agreed-upon markup of 40%." This was "horizontal...