Word: elliott
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Male Animal (by James Thurber & Elliott Nugent; produced by Herman Shumlin) provides Broadway-in a season rich only in comedy-with another comedy hit. A frail, rachitic tyke of a play, with barely enough clothes to cover it, The Male Animal manages to captivate by its impish tongue and winning smile. It resembles a dinner party where there isn't nearly enough food but where the conversation is so amusing that nobody minds...
James Thurber, famous for illustrating The War Between the Sexes with his runaway pencil, has carried the combat to the stage. The Male Animal tells of a young English professor (Elliott Nugent) who has all the trouble that Thurber thinks the male animal is born to. The prof gets branded a Red for wanting to read one of Vanzetti's letters to his class. He gets all tangled up with his wife when an old sweetheart of hers comes to town for a football game. A Milquetoast by nature, the professor quaffs too much of the cup that emboldens...
...sinkings, all the home-water problems involved in the Navy's proposed new five-year ship building program (see p. 77). These mat ters served more clearly to point up Grace Line's sales talk: the contrasting security of Western Hemisphere waters. Lest listeners forget, Announcer Larry Elliott takes over for about two minutes of each program to tell of the bright, balmy, beckoning Caribbean, plug Grace Line's bargain offer...
Once again, the Dormitory team, in the last game, easily triumphed, taking a 5 to 0 win from Eliot. The out-of-House combinations of Burnham-De-Portales-Thomas and Simonds-Elliott-Curtis easily kept matters under control...
...apprentice Elliott was once strongly tempted to quit when a mulatto screamed and kicked while being strapped into the chair. But such goings-on, he found, were rare. A few doomed men balked momentarily at the door of the death chamber, but subsided quickly. Two men shut their eyes through it all. A few acted as though in a trance (he denies that they are ever doped). But the commonest reaction was bravado. Said wisecracking Gangster George Appel: "Well, folks, you'll soon see a baked Appel." Gangster Michael Sclafoni ran his hand over the chair arm. "Dust...