Word: fandangos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Leading Lady (by Ruth Gordon; produced by Victor Samrock & William Fields) was a turn-of-the-century fandango about theater people that Ruth Gordon, playwright, wrote for Ruth Gordon, actress. Trying mainly for glamor, it traded chiefly in hokum-and pretty tarnished hokum at that. Miss Gordon herself was so very much of a Heroine that she was not much of a help...
...bull, and it is only a slight exaggeration to say that if the bull had stuck its tongue out it could have licked him. The crowd, which had booed everybody all week, went mad. (Pamplona crowds are notoriously hard to please because during fiesta week they dance the fandango and drink all night...
Carib Song (book & lyrics by William Archibald; music by Baldwin Bergersen; produced by George Stanton) is an all-Negro folk-fandango laid in the West Indies. A "musical play," Carib Song unfolds a triangle story so lethargic and sedate that it virtually libels the reputation of the tropics. The love story, moreover, is pretty much buried in native dialect (e.g., "I ain't know") and local customs, ranging from God-fearing church-going to god-fearing voodoo. All this is now & again picturesque but never dramatic. Carib Song owes its best moments to the dancing of Katherine Dunham...
...FANDANGO-Robed Briffault-Scribner's ($2.50). Because a few years ago many reviewers would not call a rotten book rotten-or couldn't get the scent-if its politics were Left, Anthropologist Robert Briffault developed an extraordinary reputation through his first novel, Europa, scarcely diminished it with Europa in Limbo. Robert Forsythe wrote of him, in New Masses: "I not only consider him the most brilliant writer in the English language today but by long odds the most learned and profound man of our time." Briffault's third novel, Fandango, is shorter and a little less pretentious...
...unsold successes: Clare Boothe's Margin For Error, William Saroyan's The Time of Your Life, the bawdy musicomedy Du Barry Was a Lady, which if filmed would have to be housebroken or probably go in one Hays Office door and out the other; the John Barrymore fandango, My Dear Children; and, despite many reported deals, The Philadelphia Story...