Ruth Gordon's Mad and Fascinating Play
Ruth Gordon's Mad and Fascinating Play The Week on Stage By JOSEPH SHIPLEY *OYKU /'II h. V7 > (>\K Hy , "Hulk l^ifii;,, Stayed by tliotye S hunt man Settnty by Hoy •tiiotul S'lVty ...
...you might approach ft by fusing the James M. Barrie . BrV"Th(' 'i'1116 Minister" with the , rnitfn Barry of "Hotel Universe...
...Her spirit is fresh and free, arch and Ar-•adian, impetuous and imaginative—flashing from a tender insight to a telling shaft of "satire, ier story is not so strong...
...an- making a mistake by not giving The New Ijender a million subscribers...
...but KuUi gave him dream material for his shaping The window that stamps open, the f irs in the refrigeratoi , the mo\it sian motioning to his sleiioi.' i ajiher to lot down that dialogue...
...She is a ! lemons author, as the colonel's jpdy knows...
...It surely is I Break for the Gordons...
...There is an efij*er •oiiplo that disappears with Act I, and ft whirling motion , picture mogul who does not arrive until he final act...
...ut his wife stands by...
...William Plampin, Washington...
...Altogether, as you may have gathered, there's a joyous evening in,store for you at "Over Twenty One...
...This...
...I am sure that the workers of the U.S...
...II is revealed by the study that, on the whole, the wartime program of new capital investment has tended to bring about a geographic diffusion of American industrial plants...
...Molly 1 [Bitches pitches in: Abe Lincoln ¦lids a hand...
...The net shift in income payments, on the other hand, amounts to nearly 5 per rent of the national total or more than $5,000,000,000...
...NWi'l you could tell it from afar \ py the delighted hush of the audience in rupt attention -broken Mf you can call a break what is &A Constant flow) only by the gale I aWlighted laughter...
...Takes a Tip—'•news Now Ti> the Editor: I'm not sure when my .subscription expires but I'm* taking your tip to renew now for $i!.00...
...The rising industrial importance of sorne areas represents the acceleration of long-term trends...
...Wishing you all success...
...the training for ! *>cun<l lieutenant is hard going...
...Hot that Ruth, in h:r maiden flight, has soared to the height of Philip and James...
...But the paper needs Uie editor...
...yenr-oM editor has Jeternrlned to make good in an limy air corps...
...a millionaire serve's JWihksV-nnd Ruth Gordon has ; ¦lnpeg...
...Jndfspeniiblc Heading From II...
...The study shows that the overall .shift from areas of relative IS- to those of relative gain in re nti importance has affected from 'I to ii per cent of our total economic activity...
...Ituth Gordon as author hits crowded the actress from these lines...
...but as actress Ruth Gordon t» an equal delight...
...Ruth Gordon's Mad and Fascinating Play The Week on Stage By JOSEPH SHIPLEY *OYKU /'II h. V7 > (>\K Hy , "Hulk l^ifii;,, Stayed by tliotye S hunt man Settnty by Hoy •tiiotul S'lVty f'l esetttetl by M'tj GorTnoi ut the Mittiie tiin 1 Kilth lotrdoli, lnii|- one of m\ favorite uftlesses, has in one AWt-ll SWOOp liecollie one of my jiavolite i la> w i ighls Just this M" * mixture nl moonshine, t.il ¦> stall-low, altil sense lias ) ' - been la* King on oiii stage, If is, of course, quite her own and M our time...
...and Hollywood wants Jhe author's revising touch...
...F. COFFIN To the Editor: It is the imtispensal le leading on my list and I wish that I could send you a hundred, dollars instead of the inclosed...
...California...
...War Shifts Center Of U. S. Life Westward That significant changes in the geographic distribution of the American people and of theii economic activity have resulted from conversion to a war economy is .shown in u study entitled "Regional Shifts in Population...
...For example, the net shifi in civilian populu lion from regions which have ex perlenceil a relative loss to those which have enjoyed a relative gain represents about 2 pel cent of the total population, or ap proximately 2,511(1,00(1 persons...
...Inte'r-wined are the army, the press, Bollywood, and a pair of ardent ihough no lonjrer young lovers (even as you and I and most of ;Ju> audience...
...The paper is worth the higher priee even as is, but maybe my renewal now will do you more good than a few months later...
...Whether the relative gains in industrial im|tort-ance made by some, a-en* during the war will hold ia the postwar era depends, id large measure, upon the extent to which war production facilities can or will he-converted to civilian output, as well as upon the timing of conversion...
...As he f* played by Philip Loeb, we miss him the nore...
...the two couples wills pering in embarrassment in Act 111...
...through a play that stirs m in Jumriatd hilarity and keen (m)th;ipatioii of more and more...
...The deft tricks and turns of fttion rise so spontaneously from ¦o4stthos- *hnt.4*,'s impossible to t. II whether they are the author's or the director's Geoige S. Kauf-niAii is an excellent comedy ill lector...
...Kveu before the war, new investment was flowing into the less industrialized regions more rapidly/ relative to the amount of manufacturing al ready located there—than into the New England and Middle Atlantic Stales...
...The lentei of gravity of Amei lean economic life has shifted maikcdlv Westward and Southward dining the war as iuiti rated by the dramatic rise in the relative position of the Pacific, South Atlantic, and Fast South Centra] regions anil by the relative decline of the populous Middle Atlantic region...
...tbi' niillionairi a major at the i lose but as la-fuddled and an oyed us when carnation clad: there's a blend of daffy dialogue and impish direction that makes "Over Twenty-One" over twenty one indeed adult cut ii la inliii lit fi r a mellow mind Kai from the comic -trip level of much of our comedy -equally far from the wise-cracker si liool or the school of abuse, which thinks it's full to be nasty, the "came to dinner" humor that condescends with a cudgel "Ovei Twenty-One" 4s the New Year's first treasure treve on Broadway...
...Sly or shouting (sometimes with a dililiciate roar), tender or truculent, she is on the stage lengthily and com-niHiids it throughout Also as "The Church Mouse" long ago convinced earlier skeptics she baa a charm •>!>,,, own, neat but not gaudy, not tlaunti d but discerned...
...Production, ami Maikets ltf.'IU to l!l-J't," released today by the U S Department of Commerce...
Vol. 27 • May 1944 • No. 2
