Word: boudoired
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...flattest flops of Broadway's flop-heavy season flopped into oblivion last week - Boudoir after eleven showings, Popsy after four...
...Boudoir (by Jacques Deval, produced by Jacques Chambrun) told of a Manhat tan adventuress of the '80s whose assorted bitchery was finally ended by the strangling hands of an Egyptian jewel thief. The play had blackout dullness inconceivable from the author of the glinting comedy Tovarich...
...depicted an aging mathematics pro fessor whose dream of retiring was temporarily balked by his daughters' marital troubles. Critic Brooks Atkinson (New York Times} :;"... one of the worst plays ever written. Man and boy, this column has not looked at its like since the days of Boudoir." Broadway audiences continually wonder how so many flops get produced. One reason: even the best producers make mistakes. Another was suggested fortnight ago in Variety, by Producer Oscar Serlin (of the hit comedy Life With Father). He took a lusty whack at a "racket" which has brought many a dollar from...
...Fields under the pseudonym Mahatma Kane Jeeves wrote "Bank Dick," he played the lead, and he directed the director. That should be warning enough for anyone not a slapstick fanatic; and even Fields' staunchest fans will long for a goat-in-the-boudoir-of-Mac-West scene like that which marked the peak of "My Little Chickadee." Closest to a really uproarious sequence is the capture of bank bandits Repulsive Grogan and Filthy McSnatch by the paunchy recluse of the Black Pussy Cafe. Thereby W.C. becomes local constable and straight Grade B Mack Sennett horseplay drags on and on. Saloon...
...This World," and "I'm In The Mood." Lyrics in the last barely slip by the Boston censors. On the hotter side of the song-leader, Virginia O'Brien sings four torrid arrangements in the Andrews Sisters manner. Giving the audience everything from dinner with the Roosevelts to a boudoir rendezvous with a dozen bare, telephoning Petty girls, "Keep Off the Grass" may not fulfill all extravagant pre-opening predictions; but with Bolger down-stage, its security on Broad-way is unquestionable...