Word: signposts
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Dates: during 1963-1963
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...hostile troops but by the impersonal, creeping jungle. I ask of any new production: Is it helping to push back the jungle or is it, by carelessness or treachery, letting another patch of strangling green encroach upon the walls?" Last year, even before a new mystery called Signpost to Murder had a chance to make its debut. Levin made up his mind that it would be one more case of jungle rot. "Don't tell me, let me guess," Levin wrote sarcastically in the Express, speculating in advance on just how bad the play was going to be. Infuriated...
...Beaverbrook newspapers capitulated with astonishing alacrity. They conceded that on first nights theater producers are entitled to invite or exclude anyone. The price for Levin's first-night ticket: $22,400 in damages and legal costs. "A great day for the living theater," exulted Littler. As for Signpost. despite mixed reviews it ran for a year in London, is now packing the house in Britain's provinces, has been picked up by M-G-M for $70,000 and will move to Broadway some time this year...