Word: dietz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Inside U.S.A.," which takes it name, and nothing else, from the latest of John Gunther's Insides to come out. The sketches are contributed by several of the best revue writers in the business--Arnold Horwitt, Arnold Auerbach, and Moss Hart--and the lyrics and music are by Howard Dietz and Arthur Schwartz...
...have already been made to capture the owl, so that it could be claimed as a partisan by a candidate. Roger Hunt and Lansing Lamont, both '52, tried to climb the bird's favorite pine tree, but could not get high enough. A demonstration for John Morey featured James Dietz dressed as the police-protected bird. A Goldstein circular asked and answered questions on the owl issue...
Minnie and Mr. Williams (by Richard Hughes; produced by John Gassner & David Dietz) reached Broadway 25 years after it was written, and ran for less than a week. In it the author of A High Wind in Jamaica had written a folksy Welsh fantasy involving a virtuous village clergyman (Eddie Dowling), his wooden-legged wife Minnie (Josephine Hull), a young girl in the employ of the Devil, and the high-kicking flesh & blood leg that Minnie suddenly sprouted. The whole thing was a frisky parable in which good & evil did not wrestle so much as tickle each other with straws...
Inside U.S.A. (suggested by John Gunther's book; music & lyrics by Arthur Schwartz and Howard Dietz; sketches by Arnold Auerbach, Moss Hart and Arnold B. Horwitt; produced by Mr. Schwartz) opened to splash notices and may well run for two years. All the same, some first-nighters found it the least enjoyable Bea Lillie show in a long time. Not that it is really bad or botched: it is all thoroughly professional. It is also thoroughly unoriginal and unexhilarating; it not only fails to shed light of its own, but even dims the cherished Lillie luster...
...raced through London from Warwick House to an empty house at No. 1 Cambridge Square to the Ritz to the Peter Pan statue in Kensington (the Rolls-Royces had trouble getting through those narrow lanes), doggedly following the far-flung clues that had been written (in verse) by Howard Dietz. Sample clue (leading to a book planted inside the empty house...