That quote from The Stage is marvelous. (I'm smiling at "an earnest and dismal thing.")
I tracked down some contemporary reviews and it sounds in fact like super-downbeat social message theater in which Elisha Cook Jr. gave a performance instead of a case study and good for him. He really was a new face of Broadway. Both Brooks Atkinson who was the tastemaker of the New York Times and Robert Benchley who snarked chronically in the pages of The New Yorker consistently liked him. And if he had stayed on Broadway I might not even have known enough about him to complain about not being able to see him, but under the circumstances I really want that time machine.
When you find things about someone like Elisha Cook Jr. on all these disparate internet locations, do you download and save the sources? Just thinking about the fragility of the internet these days.
I haven't been doing it systematically, but I actually have been saving some articles. I'm not sure it's accumulating toward anything other than files of random interest, but I keep losing access to movies and texts at least can be stored. I also worry about the future of archives.
no subject
I tracked down some contemporary reviews and it sounds in fact like super-downbeat social message theater in which Elisha Cook Jr. gave a performance instead of a case study and good for him. He really was a new face of Broadway. Both Brooks Atkinson who was the tastemaker of the New York Times and Robert Benchley who snarked chronically in the pages of The New Yorker consistently liked him. And if he had stayed on Broadway I might not even have known enough about him to complain about not being able to see him, but under the circumstances I really want that time machine.
When you find things about someone like Elisha Cook Jr. on all these disparate internet locations, do you download and save the sources? Just thinking about the fragility of the internet these days.
I haven't been doing it systematically, but I actually have been saving some articles. I'm not sure it's accumulating toward anything other than files of random interest, but I keep losing access to movies and texts at least can be stored. I also worry about the future of archives.
mmmmmmmm oyster stew .....
Right? An ideal winter food.