Word: howards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sidney Howard; produced by John Golden), when it won the Pulitzer Prize in the mid-'20s, had a fresh slant and a fine cast (Richard Bennett, Pauline Lord and Glenn Anders). Revived without luster in 1939, it seemed sadly dated. Dumped down on Broadway last week, it seemed all but dead...
...called "Inside U.S.A.," which takes it name, and nothing else, from the latest of John Gunther's Insides to come out. The sketches are contributed by several of the best revue writers in the business--Arnold Horwitt, Arnold Auerbach, and Moss Hart--and the lyrics and music are by Howard Dietz and Arthur Schwartz...
...most spontaneous composition of the evening was Gordon Binkerd's rollicking Prelude and Allegro for flute and piano, and it provided a lot of highly enjoyable listening. The spectacular and extremely difficult flute part was handled magnificently by Howard Brown, whose capabilities were also exhibited in the Diamond Quintet. Karl Kohn's performance of the piano part was equally fine...
...make two appearances during the period--once tomorrow in "You Can't Take It With You" and again Saturday in "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington." These two Frank Capra comedies are probably the week's most enjoyable offerings. With them go "The Invaders"--Raymond Massey, Lawrence Olivier, and Leslie Howard dealing with a German submarine invasion--and "Welcome Stranger," termed "a warm and human tale" by the management, which probably found the money brought in by Crosby, Caulfield, and Barry Fitzgerald the most warm and human element in the whole thing...
Brilliant acrobatics gave Dan Rogers an unchallenged triumph for the West Pointers in the dive, as Win Briggs nipped Army's Frank Howard by three tenths of a point to take second place and leave the Cadets six points ahead at the approximate half-way mark...