Word: girls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thought that the seven girl agents, and a hundred others, might simply have been decoys handed over to certain death in order to mask other intelligence activities was an unpalatable one for many Britons. Gilbert had advised Author Fuller not to "put your nose into this stinking business" because "spying is not a business for angels." Most Britons preferred to remember the words spoken in St. Paul's Church in Knightsbridge in 1948 when a memorial to the memory of war heroines was unveiled: ". . . For God proved them, and found them worthy for himself. As gold in the furnace...
...Rodgers score can be pretty (7 Am Going to Like It Here), or have zip (I Enjoy Being a Girl), or lead to fun (Don't Marry Me). But it gets few assists from the lyrics, and the libretto gains nothing from its Joseph Fields brand of gag. Perhaps the right comparison for the show is not with first-flight Rodgers and Hammerstein but with second-best Rodgers and Hart. Such work might well be less smoothly professional than Flower Drum Song, but it was more individualized. If it sagged, it would suddenly soar; if there was nothing notable...
...finds the author of A Hatful of Rain once again garishly grim. His scene, shifting between a crummy, dimly lit bar and a sleazy apartment, fits the play's characters with their inner loneliness, outer violence, anarchic dreams. Into the bar, on her wedding eve, comes a beautiful girl (Janice Rule) in prenuptial revolt against a stodgy suburban future; next day she returns, in her wedding dress, to go off with a hard-boiled sailor (well played by Ben Gazzara). The rest of the play concerns the unborn child of the fiance she walked out on, the father...
...crammed is his scene with lives near precipices and gutters as to cry out for someone merely in a rut. His people, as they talk and philosophize, become embarrassingly florid. His heroine is both a Jazz Age and a Beat Generation type: the self-pitying, self-dramatizing, greedily restless girl who destroys others on the way to destroying herself. But the play's realistic-romantic approach to her is blurred and unsure...
...Variety's listing of Hollywood's top ten moneymakers for November: 1) In Love and War (20th Century-Fox), 2) Houseboat (Paramount), 3) The Last Hurrah (Columbia), 4) South Pacific (Magna), 5) South Seas Adventure (Cinerama), 6) Gigi (M-G-M), 7) Party Girl (M-G-M), 8) Windjammer (De Rochemont), 9 The Defiant Ones (U.A.), 10) Home Before Dark (Warner...