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- Waiting For Lefty
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- (April 8, 1935)
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- Transforming the audience into a meeting of a New York
- taxicab union in the play. Waiting for Lefty, Playwright
- Clifford Odets uses the stage as a rostrum for union officials
- and committeemen. Question before the house is whether to call
- a taxi strike. It soon becomes plain that the union bosses have
- sold out the cab-drivers to the fleet owners, are trying to
- prevent a walkout. But a militant section, led by one
- Lefty,pleads for action. Lefty seems to have been delayed, and
- while awaiting his arrival there are a series of ingenious,
- brief flashbacks, indicating the misery of the hackmen's
- conditions. When it turns out that Lefty has been murdered, the
- Group's acting company puts on the most rousing finale that has
- been seen uptown in years.
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