Word: housebroken
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chautauqua began letting its hair down last summer, when it heard housebroken "symphonic" jazz by Paul Whiteman's orchestra. Last week 8,000 people jammed the acoustically excellent, open-sided amphitheatre to hear Pianist Templeton. He warmed up on classics, soon went to town with Grieg's in the Groove. By the time he gave his irreverent impression of senatorial Dr. Walter Damrosch analyzing Three Little Fishies for children, Alec Templeton had Chautauqua roaring its approval...
Before the animals broke loose to explore the orchestra and balcony seats, authorities decided not to use the animals because they were not "housebroken...
Other unsold successes: Clare Boothe's Margin For Error, William Saroyan's The Time of Your Life, the bawdy musicomedy Du Barry Was a Lady, which if filmed would have to be housebroken or probably go in one Hays Office door and out the other; the John Barrymore fandango, My Dear Children; and, despite many reported deals, The Philadelphia Story...