Articles
Cinema: Twelve-Letter Obscenity
Oedipus Rex, King of Thebes, died this week in his new home, Where's Poppa? Mr. Oedipus was 2,500 years old and had been ailing for almost a century. His...
The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Jan. 17, 1944
Over Twenty-One (by Ruth Gordon; produced by Max Gordon). It was a dead cinch that in her maiden stage effort Ruth Gordon the playwright would be kind to Ruth...
The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Dec. 16, 1946
Years Ago (by Ruth Gordon; produced by Max Gordon) floats nostalgically back to Wollaston, Mass, in 1912, when Playwright Gordon was 16-year-old Ruth Gordon...
Theater: Geriatricks
A Very Rich Woman has ague in its funny bones. Actress-Playwright Ruth Gordon has tried to create a drawing-room comedy about old ageĀand the chief reason that...
The Theater: Three-Star Classic
(See Cover) Over their drinks, theater people sometimes play a game: they dream up casts for great plays. With opium-pipe prodigality, they sometimes devise a...
The Theater: New Plays on Broadway, Mar. 14, 1960
The Good Soup (adapted from the French of Felicien Marceau by Garson Kanin) constitutes, even to the form it takes, the reminiscences of a coldly successful...
The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Nov. 1, 1948
Life With Mother (based on Clarence Day's stories by Howard Lindsay & Russel Grouse; produced by Oscar Serlin) is not only the sequel but just about the equal...
Theater: Rhetorical Tic
The Loves of Cass McGuire, by Brian Friel, whispers along for three feeble acts, but it has no secret to tell. It whispers of dead young brides and deaf old...
The Theatre: New Plays: Sep. 14, 1925
The Fall of Eve. Another heavily heralded comedy stumbled in the first act and was stimulated to complete the evening with fair effect only by the unique and...
Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Feb. 26, 1940
Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet (Edward G. Robinson, Ruth Gordon, Albert Basserman; TIME, Feb. 19). The Grapes of Wrath (Jane Darwell, Russell Simpson, Henry Fonda,...
