Word: geniuses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...less a Broadway opening than a kind of $5.50 question. On its road tryout Gypsy Rose Lee's maiden effort at playwriting, THE NAKED GENIUS, had become the script-tease of the season. Two days after it went into rehearsal, it was sold to 20th Century-Fox on a sliding-scale basis for a maximum $365,000. In Boston, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, it packed them in-but kept stalling off its Broadway opening. Then Producer Michael Todd (Star & Garter, Something for the Boys) boldly announced he would open the show there over the violent protests of Gypsy and Director George...
Cheered by the success of The Naked Genius, three other frights wobbled hopefully to Broadway last week. SLIGHTLY MARRIED (by Aleen Leslie) was the fourth obstetrical farce in recent months, let out one frightened postnatal wail, expired. VICTORY BELLES (by Alice Gerstenberg), a free-for-all about the husband shortage, was likely to remain unchallenged as the worst show of the season. MANHATTAN NOCTURNE (by Roy Walling) told how a down-in-the-mouth writer (Eddie Dowling) and a poor little call girl gave each other the faith to begin afresh. A trite story tritely told, it had moments...
...best British general and to a body of literature they have largely neglected: the spirited, emotional, uneven, intense and practically useful compositions of military men. Its distinction is that it makes common sense not a mere negative quality - the avoidance of mistakes - but a pulsing, living force, strange as genius and more understandable ; unbeatable, kindly, unexpected, confident, and as essential to the winning of a world war as it is to organizing a practical world peace...
...Napoleon's. Wellington suffered from many things-fever and loneliness in India that turned his hair grey at 32, a botched marriage; disgrace and empty victory and the fanatical hatred of some of the keenest brains in the Empire. He suffered from the misuse and thwarting of his genius from his childhood to his old age, wounds and hazards in battle, casualty lists so long that, as the Surgeon General read them to him in his moods of frightful despair after fighting, Wellington's will ebbed and sickened. He suffered when supplies were withheld from him, his dispatches...
Gene Tierney is wonderful. She doesn't sing, she doesn't dance, she doesn't even act--she merely parades around displaying her God-given equipment. She does get old eventually, in keeping with the so-called plot, but, by a stroke of Holly woodian genius, her senility is strictly limited to the area above the neck...