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Spokesman for the Central Importance THE UNKNOWN CHEKHOV. Translaeed wlth an infroducHon by Avrahm Yarrnolinsey. The Noonday Press. $4.50. By DAVID BURNHAM C HEKHOV is probably best known to...

From the Heart (March 1950)

March 3, 1950 THE COMMONWEAL 559 people. Since...

FICTION IS ART-PLUS (May 1948)

Fiction Is Art-Plus DAVID BURNHAM SETTING out to review the new collection of Henry James's critical writings,* one is intimidated by his low opinion of one's task: "a practice that has nothing to...

The Stage (August 1946)

38z THE COMMONWEAL August 2, i946 The Stage Scree Notes from the West I THINK it may seem fairly frivolous, trying to fit a small travelogue into this serious theater column, but nevertheless I...

THE STAGE (November 1942)

96 THE COMMONWEAL November 13, 1942 The end I know not-it is all in Thee ; The...

THE STAGE (November 1942)

November 6, 1942 THE COMMONWEAL 71 tion, and it runs through every page and paragraph, vibrant as a bugle call, the...

THE STAGE (October 1942)

42 THE COMMONWEAL October 30, 1942 present system of jailing and segregating which interests commission, I've...

THE STAGE (October 1942)

October 23, 1942 THE COMMONWEAL I S DAY OF ATONEMENT war. Anderson has...

THE STAGE (October 1942)

615 The Stage & Screen Saroyan—Chesterton LIKE "Talking to You," which New York briefly ' glimpsed six weeks ago, "Hello Out There" is William Saroyan in his tender rather than his cocky...

THE STAGE (October 1942)

appears to have been generally modeled, with suggestions of that other alma mater of Mr. Ferrer's, the Princeton Triangle Club. The other talent—Taylor Holmes, Mildred Dunnock, Frank Conlan, Charles...

THE INVALID LADY OF BLOOMSBURY (October 1942)

brow reader, with the implication that the latter cannot be expected to match his own superior intelligence and sensitivity? Such has increasingly become the accepted literary practice. The excuse...

THE STAGE (October 1942)

Alvers, a stock titled British booby interpreted by Nicholas Joy with his characteristic ham unction. Wendy and Nicholas wander on and off the set as if it were the Savoy grill rather than the...

THE STAGE (September 1942)

543 The Stage & Screen Janie THE elder sister in "Junior Miss" was rather slighted; we seldom caught sight of her except as she flounced in or out the door. In "Janie" she comes into her...

THE STAGE (September 1942)

518 The Stage & Screen I Killed the Count THERE'S a rather ingenious idea at the core of Alec Coppel's mystery play, "I Killed the Count." A man is murdered by a single bullet from his own...

THE STAGE (September 1942)

471 Views & Reviews BY MICHAEL WILLIAMS THE formal declaration of war by Brazil against Germany and Italy, but not, as yet, against the third partner in the Axis, Japan, not only adds great...

Broken Journey-The Chocolate Soldier (July 1942)

The Stage & Screen Broken Journey qO MANY foreign correspondents have written bestir sellers about themselves that it seems only fair that a stay-at-home playwright should cash in on their...

THE STAGE (July 1942)

255 The Stage & Screen By Jupiter "BY JUPITER" is very probably the swan song of a type of entertainment for which Broadway has shown special genius: the lavish, eye-filling,...

THE STAGE (June 1942)

The Stage & Screen Razzle-Dazzle GOOD SAROYAN is like good jazz: gay, spontaneous, unpredictable, irreverent, debonair. Or, when its mood is blue: nostalgic, importunate, tenderly desperate. When...

THE STAGE (June 1942)

The Stage & Screen L'Annonce Faite a Marie FlUL CLAUDEL'S plays have been called "poetic arsenals against the modern world." It was an admirer who coined the phrase, but it does M....

THE STAGE (May 1942)

Is he describing Candida Morell or Katharine Cornell? Will any New York theatergoer ever be able to separate them? No one thought to remark so on the occasions of her earlier appearances in the...

THE STAGE (May 1942)

The Stage & Screen The Walking Gentleman unpHE WALKING GENTLEMAN" starts out A well. A psychiatrist's consulting office is a promising setting for the opening scene of a psychological thriller;...

THE STAGE (May 1942)

86 The Stage & Screen Keep 'Em Laughing CLIFFORD C. FISCHER appears to have discovered a successful formula for war-time entertainment. Routine two-a-day cut-price vaudeville, with revue...

THE STAGE (May 1942)

The Stage & Screen Yesterday's Magic EMLYN WILLIAMS wrote "The Corn Is Green" out of his boyhood experience He wrote "Night Must Fall" out of his inventive imagination, touched off possibly by a...

THE STAGE (April 1942)

14 The Stage & Screen The Moon Is Down LIKE "Of Mice and Men," "The Moon Is Down" is a virtually word-for-word transcript by John Steinbeck of his own short novel of the same title. The stage...

THE STAGE (April 1942)

April x7, t942 T H E C )) M M O N W E A L 647 Communications IN THE GROOVE Louisville, Ky. T O the Editors: It was with a sort of mild horror that I read in the "In the Groove" column of...

THE STAGE (April 1942)

62o THE COMMONWEAL April IO, I94z of one another; but it is worse that we have been so mean to one another that we have all become afraid! We must love the Japanese and the Germans and they must...

THE STAGE (April 1942)

April 3, z94z THE COMMONWEAL 59x vague statements may conceal imperialistic and commu-nistic purposes, not of the government, but of groups whose ambition it is to make this war an instrument of...

THE STAGE (March 1942)

March 27, 1942 THE COMMONWEAL 56I Views Tv views For what they may be worth to those who may take a practical interest in this grave problem, in Washington or elsewhere, my personal opinions...

THE STAGE (March 1942)

.~larch 20, i942 THE COMMONWEAL years must be conscripted "for all necessary military and civil duties"; all "national corporate wealth and its attend- ant institutions, such as banks, trusts and...

THE STAGE (March 1942)

THE COMMONWEAL March I3, x942 who helped make this country and who pioneered when life was less complex. The more we know of our imme- diate forebears the more likely will we be able to appreciate...

THE STAGE (March 1942)

March 6, x942 THE COMMONWEAL work. I believe that intelligent readers, not technicians, will welcome the work before our established Catholic critics. I have great faith in such a reading public:...

THE STAGE (February 1942)

462 THE COMMONWEAL February 27, I942 Views Tveviews BY ~IICHAEL WILLIAMS A RECENT address given by Dr. Ernst W. Meyer, visiting professor of political science at Bucknell University,...

THE STAGE (February 1942)

THE COMMONWEAL February 20, I942 liberty on their part to give, sell, or bequeath it, while the state would levy on it for public uses a tax that should equal the annual value of the land itself,...

THE STAGE (February 1942)

February z3, I942 THE COM abundance to lift the general flatness. And when they do occur, they almost invariably remind me of Edwin Arlington Roblnson--as for that matter, do many of his worst...

THE STAGE (February 1942)

February 6, I942 THE COMMONWEAL WSAL, which I read each week with interest, will not again stoop to such low besmirching of this great artist. As the author of another article you once published...

THE STAGE (January 1942)

344 THE COMMONWEAL January a3, t94a at last the world, may turn and cry for forgiveness, mercy and ddiverance for all." We, the Assedation of Catholic Conscientious Objectors, would be very...

THE STAGE (January 1942)

January z6, x942 THE COMMONWEAL 319 dent for the day b the evil thereof,' and while we must seek to estimate and guard against the coming dangers, our first job is surdy to do our Christian best...

The Stage (January 1942)

z94 THE COMMONWEAL January 9, 194z Now American Catholics will await with renewed hope and faith the coming report of the committee of the hierarchy to which reference was made in this...

THE STAGE (January 1942)

January 2, x942 THE COMMONWEAL arms, but of their system oxr government after the arms have completed the first part of the conquest--thereafter to be suspended over the heads of their victims,...

THE STAGE (December 1941)

THE COMMONWEAL December 26, I94I My criticism of this book (and others similar to it) which I labeled an "English Legend Book" was that it presented a sentimentalized and romanticized version of...

THE STAGE (December 1941)

THE COMMONWEAL December I9, I941 reduces the entire audience to hysterical giggles. And when the gas lights dim, indicating that someone is prowl- ing about upstairs, you almost wish you hadn't...

Burnham, Deborah S.

Burnham, James

Burnham, PhiIip

Burnham, Philip

Burnham, Richard J Purcell, George K McCabe, Bryan M O'Reilly, George N Shuster, Philip

Burnham, Walter Dean

Burnham, William Franklin Sands, Marie L Darrach, J Elliot Ross, Bryan M O'Reilly, Philip

Burnham-Clinton, R.

Burns, Colette M.

Burns, David

Burns, James

Burns, James MacGregor