Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Angel Island (by Bernie Angus; produced by George Abbott) lures a company of glinty-eyed weekenders to its shores with tales of buried treasure. Two murders are done, everybody suspects everybody else, while the audience keeps its eye on the shifty butler. Finally a character who might easily have been an innocent bystander is shot down as the culprit. A thriller with so pat a formula is usually expected to move posthaste off the Broadway boards, but with the guidance of respected Play-Picker George Francis Abbott, this one, blackouts, screams, rowdy humor and all, seems likely to remain...
...every boyish prank. ... He always liked to jump. ... In a fight with my cousin, he got a bloody nose. He never forgot that. It took him a year but he gave his milk brother [son of Achille Ratti's wet-nurse] something to remember in a black eye...
...Salotti dared to suggest, last year, that the Pope take a rest, "The Pontiff stirred. His face was grave with resentment. . . . 'The Lord has endowed you with many good qualities, Salotti,' decreed the Holy Father in acid and peremptory terms, 'but he denied you a clinical eye.' " Likewise, to a monk who made bold to admonish Pius XI to spare his legs: "Do not be so engrossed about my lameness. . . . God and myself take that responsibility...
...study in oils of Mr. Palmiston's Derby winner, Blue Bolt. When wife (Rosalind Russell) and crony (Robert Benchley) walk out on him, taking much of life's beauty and all of its humor back to Washington Square, Painter Montgomery hits the skids. Near bottom his eye lights on a ghetto lad selling flowers. He collars him, explains to the boy's dubious mother that he wants to paint the lad. Says she: ''What color?" From then on Mammon begins losing rounds. The escapade winds up with reconciled principals pushing puffy Mr. Palmiston through...
...exhibition. The air above the stands during the second half was filled with flying paper-wads made of soaked copies of the H. A. A. News. It apparently began as a protest against ladies' umbrellas, but was continued for its own sake. I received a hard blow in the eye from a rolled magazine as I turned my head for an instant . . . I am extremely thankful that I received the blow instead of the girl I was with, and that it did not strike endwise, instead of sideways, as it did, so that most of the force was taken...