Word: folderols
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Lovers and Friends (by Dodie Smith, produced by Katharine Cornell and John C. Wilson) is Katharine Cornell and Raymond Massey adroitly wasting their time on a tedious drawing-room comedy of English puppet love. Dodie Smith, who in Autumn Crocus and Call It a Day wrote agreeable matinee folderol, in Lovers and Friends has worked out one of the oldest problems in sexual geometry on a theatrical abacus...
...writing something of matchless newness in the world's literary history. He wrote the first half of the book "more to be at work than anything else," laid it by unfinished for six years, then added some of the most magnificent chapters in U.S. literature and a folderol ending. For Mark, says DeVoto, "felt no difference in value between the highest truths of fiction and merely literary burlesque." He had almost no ability to "think and feel [his material] through to its own implicit form." He jotted down and never touched ideas like these...
...crack songwriting team (willowy Ann Sothern and stuffy Robert Young) splits up because its male member is too fond of wallowing in high society. They divorce and become separate failures. They remarry and click again. Then, for unco good measure, they very nearly repeat the routine. This folderol consumes no minutes...
...California wines. The notion was developed by Chateau Martin's advertising agent, Herman C. Morris, whose outfit whipped together a series of chats by a comic Frenchman, who, after a sip of Chateau Martin '39, uniformly wound up: "I go queek get my citizenship papers." This folderol, tried over a few stations, was so successful that Chateau Martin upped its spot announcement budget from $100 to $3,500 a week, introduced the imperishable jingles with which Gaston now assaults the ether. Since Gaston started, Chateau Martin has sold 15,000,000 quarts of wine, sent a top-hatted...
Unfortunately, for dentistry, the bride got pretty sore at this toothy folderol during rehearsal, accused her beloved of being more eager to advertise his wares than her charms. At that point the groom slapped the bride. The bride retaliated in kind, and also refused to go through with the nuptials until all references to dentures were eliminated from the ceremony. Eventually she had her way. The course of television love met further obstacles. Before the bride arrived at the studio altar, in came Fan Dancer Faith Bacon. Clad in a brassiere and a G-string, with feathers in her hair...