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Sirs: I nominate Windy "Finito" Mussolini as 1940's and 1941's ghastliest flop...
...Fish Flop. In Seattle when a woman complained to the city transit system that she had been splashed by goldfish in another passenger's bowl, a ruling was made that goldfish could ride city busses only if they lay still...
...past three years the Dramatic Club, sole remaining remnant of the one-time famous Harvard drama department, has produced plenty of flop shows. The officers deserted their policy of trying out experiments for one of attracting the public with lighter, frothier material than Auden, Isherwood, and T, S. Eliot. Unfortunately, the compromise policy has fallen flat and the H. D. C. has lost the prestige of its old daring innovations without gaining any compensatory lucre at the box-office...
Next, the Cansinos took a four-week engagement aboard one of California's notorious gambling ships off the Long Beach shore. That venture was a flop. Between acts, Eduardo fished off the ship, caught a fishhook in his finger and went to bed with an infection. Rita tried to carry the show alone, soon gave it up. "The management didn't think I had enough Spanish seductiveness," says she. "I was 15 at the time, and the only thing that really aroused me was food...
...Gerard, who wrote a scathing review of Kieran's Nature Notes (TIME, April 14), took it all back, said he really thought the book was wonderful. ∙∙ In Manhattan, Author Sinclair ("Red") Lewis made his Broadway debut as director and angel of the season's quickest flop: one performance. Critics called Good Neighbor "immensely dull." Said stage-struck Lewis who lost $25,650: "They were right. When you get that universal a comment there is no use fighting...