Word: dime-a-dozen
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Dates: during 1942-1942
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...whole thing is too gaudy, but what spoils it even as theater is that it's for the most part too shopworn. The bright comedy moments and briefly vivid scenes are swallowed up in the pat speeches, dime-a-dozen situations, stagey gestures, footlight heroics. Playwright Williams has let his memories of a hundred bad plays blot out lis memories...