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<text>
<title>
(1930s) Waiting For Lefty
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1930s Highlights
Theater
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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Waiting For Lefty
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<p>(April 8, 1935)
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<p> 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.</p>
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</article>
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