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...Torch Song. Few playwrights excel Kenyon Nicholson (The Barker, Eva the Fifth) in exploiting honkytonk, backstage or carnival scenes. Few producers can put on a better show of this sort than Arthur Hopkins, who directed and helped write Burlesque. A Hopkins-Nicholson collaboration has now resulted in an extraordinarily valid and impressive play called Torch Song...
...torch" song is one in which the theme and lyric express the deep affection, often unappreciated, which the crooner bears for the object of his or her devotion. Such a song Ivy Stevens (Mayo Methot) sang for Howard Palmer (Reed Brown Jr.), women's wear drummer, one July night at a flashy roadhouse on the outskirts of Cincinnati. Howard was sitting behind a bower of chemically pink paper roses so Ivy did not see when he left, but she got the note he scribbled on the back of a menu saying that although they had been very happy together...
Dialog and action of Torch Song, refreshingly real, are reminiscent of the more serious works of Ring Lardner. The remarks of Actor Guy Kibbee, in the character of the dyspeptic undertaker supply salesman, should be long remembered. Sample: "All I've sold this week is two gallons of fluid and a grave lining. They bury them in their shirts around here...
...Gompers. The railway brotherhoods, opposed to strikes, sought too hard to become "respectable." The Industrial Workers of the World gave promise of a big rival union until it be came an organization of bums addicted to sabotage. Debs believed in political revolution by votes, not in physical revolution by torch and bomb. Significance. Debs was a character who stirred violent emotions. A judi cial appraisal of him by a biographer is well nigh impossible. Biographer Coleman presents him in a favorable light, popular izes him, tries to preserve a fair balance of fact. But his personal admiration for Debs...
Silently through the bungalow's open door entered an Englishman with an electric torch, a magistrate representing The Emperor...