Word: custards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cast-including Sir John Gielgud, Sir Ralph Richardson, Dame Sybil Thorndike and Irene Worth-was dazzling. On Broadway, where the cast is merely good, the play's chances seem slighter. A prettily draped Dorsetshire study of has-beens and never-weres, a Chekhov-flavored and slightly watery custard, A Day by the Sea is often nicely written, sometimes neatly observed. But it shows no very personal talent or original insight...
...test-marketing in Denver (more than 5,000 24-can cases sold since May 25) of its orange, strawberry and banana-flavored milk. Called Moo Gay, the drinks use a patented process that allows acidic flavors to be added to milk without curdling it, tastes vaguely like a liquid custard pudding. Price...
...Etting film, with Doris Day warbling the lead role. It is replete-in fact it is gorged-with soaring strings, a chorus of vocalizing angels, and a rhythm section that explodes like the 1812 Overture. Doris Day is a competent singer, but beside Ruth Etting she is frozen custard...
They may start a war, but nobody really gets hurt. The custard pies fly in a multitude of directions, but at the end the warriors are apt to be licking meringue rather than their wounds...
Three-Ring Circus (Paramount) has Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis selling frozen custard at the circus. Customers crowd around. All at once the bung blows out of the custard vat. Splat! Barrages of goo go glugging in all directions. Jerry tries to plug the hole with his fist. Fffffttt! His feet go silly on the slimy stuff, and down he slathers. "Helpfllgrrulp!" As he opens his mouth to holler, a stream of sweet bilge hoses down his esophagus. In a matter of seconds everybody in sight is wallowing gloriously in orange muck, and the whole scene looks like nothing...