Word: arsenicals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...picked seven hits in a row; he owns from 7% to 20% of The Voice of the Turtle, Kiss and Tell, Othello, Lovers and Friends, A Connecticut Yankee, The Cherry Orchard and One Touch of Venus. He also owns 20% of Life With Father and 25% of Arsenic and Old Lace, Broadway's two oldest moneymakers. His nine current shows, with their road companies, are grossing over $300,000 a week at the rate of $15,000,000 a year...
Other U.S. hits include Arsenic and Old Lace, Junior Miss, My Sister Eileen, Panama Hattie. Producer Firth Shephard has such a yen for putting on U.S. plays that a current revue gag runs: "What's Firth Shephard looking so unhappy about ?"-"Oh, someone's given him an English play to read...
...Service teams, Edwards appears to be fairly good, the Boston Receiving Center ripe for picking, Thomas ripe arsenic, and the Boston Coast Guard and the Lovell Hospital more or less unknown quantities...
These tykes are acting the daffiest of all murder plays, Arsenic and Old Lace, at a special Broadway matinee. They are students at Manhattan's Professional Children s School, which does not train child actors, but educates them and where classmates are apt to turn up of a morning with dyed hair or altered features. These Lds thought nothing of playing such parts in Arsenic as a pair of motherly old poisoners, a drama critic who loathes the theater, a clank who thinks he is Teddy Roosevelt, a killer who tries to look like Boris Karloff. Old hands...
...Arsenic and Old Lace. Hilarious horror yarn of two old ladies' poisonings that are most playgoers' meat (TIME...