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57 THE IMPACT OF TV Hollywood's Future EMMET LAVERY IN THE LONG long ago, when the early film makers left New Jersey with some abruptness for California, there were dire predictions that...
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The State of the Movies A SCREENWRITER, THE HEAD OF A STUDIO, AND A PROFESSIONAL CRITIC DISCUSS THE FILM INDUSTRY'S "MAJOR OBSTACLES." 15 DECENCY ENOUGH? EMMET LAVERY SOME three...
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The Lost Audience The popular arts are reducing their public to the status of robots. By EMMET LAVERY CAN the free men of a free society remain free if they remain indifferent to mediocrity? Is...
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152 THE COMMONWEAL November 11, 1949 Louisiana's claim is like that of Texas. Her dropped, and that there be acknowledgement...
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The Enemy in Perspective EMMET LAVERY QUESTIONS raised by the phrase "nature of the enemy" are quickly provocative these days. How shall we as writers portray the Nazi mind? What is the essence of...
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After Federal Theatre: What? Straws in the wind indicate a popular theatre of the...
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Who Killed Federal Theatre? How Congress turned Pinocchio from an actor back into a puppet. By Emmet B Y AN ACT OF CONGRESS, the curtain rang down at midnight June 3o on the WPA Federal...
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Communism and the Federal Theatre By EMMET LAVERY FOR THREE years we have had in this country a federal theatre which, as one of the arms of the WPA relief projects, has presented approximately...
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January 21, 1938 The Commonweal 359, Boos Elizabethan Comet Christopher Marlowe, by John Bakeless. New York: William Morrow and Company. $3.75. HERE is the definitive work on Christopher Marlowe...
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December 24, 1937 The Commonweal 235 THE CHEERFUL DEAN By EMMET LAVERY THIS is the month for anniversaries in my home town half way up the Hudson Valley. The city is celebrating its z5oth...
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THEATRE DIVIDENDS By EMMET LAVERY MAYBE of course you think it a good thing that we have no Right Wing which we can call our own in the American theatre. Maybe you think the horizon is...
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Books Integrity General Chiang Kai-shek, by General and Madame Chiang Kai-shek. New York: Doubleday, Doran and Company. $2.OO. THIS fascinating book is apparently designed primarily to make...
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THE PLAYS ARE ON THE SHELVES By EMMET LAVERY THIS, if you will, is the shortest yet most candid answer to the provocative question, 'The Catholic Play —Where Is It?", raised in a very...
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CATHOLIC NEWS By EMMET LAVERY SINCE Catholic Press Month has just passed it is perhaps as good a time as any for a devil's advocate (ex-city editor, if you insist) to ask a few questions regarding...
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Hollywood's Future
(April 1957)
