Word: gazebo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Grinning at the capers of Star Walter Slezak, reviewers found The Gazebo a slim, satisfactory minor delight. The plot has "a certain sloppiness," wrote the Herald Tribune's Walter Kerr, but otherwise the play is "delightfully contagious...
...both sprightly and shivery by the apricot-haired English comedienne, with tongue-in-jowl introductions by husband Charles Laughton. The selections range from Fiji Fanny, a raucous burlesque of the songs the trade calls "grass-skirt numbers," to a haunted, spine-crawling ditty titled If You Peek in My Gazebo, which tells the tale of a mad New England spinster who sits each evening in a summerhouse on the hill secretly watching the lusty young village bucks stroll...