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...seven hits in a row; he owns from 7% to 20% of The Voice of the Turtle, Kiss and Tell, Othello, Lovers and Friends, A Connecticut Yankee, The Cherry Orchard and One Touch of Venus. He also owns 20% of Life With Father and 25% of Arsenic and Old Lace, Broadway's two oldest moneymakers. His nine current shows, with their road companies, are grossing over $300,000 a week at the rate of $15,000,000 a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Angel Having Fun | 3/13/1944 | See Source »

Arsenic and Old Lace. Hilarious horror yarn about two sweet old ladies who flavor their wine with a wee drop of poison (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Best Bets on Broadway, Mar. 13, 1944 | 3/13/1944 | See Source »

Other U.S. hits include Arsenic and Old Lace, Junior Miss, My Sister Eileen, Panama Hattie. Producer Firth Shephard has such a yen for putting on U.S. plays that a current revue gag runs: "What's Firth Shephard looking so unhappy about ?"-"Oh, someone's given him an English play to read...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Quiet but Happy | 1/24/1944 | See Source »

...years the U.S. soldier's grey-greens have been a nuisance to him. They are hard to adjust, complicated to lace (especially the left one), have a trick of starting to go adrift at crucial moments. Beyond that, a bumpily laced, hurriedly donned legging will inevitably bring a bark from the noncom, a frigid stare from the nearest officer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - EQUIPMENT: Nightmare's End | 1/10/1944 | See Source »

These tykes are acting the daffiest of all murder plays, Arsenic and Old Lace, at a special Broadway matinee. They are students at Manhattan's Professional Children s School, which does not train child actors, but educates them and where classmates are apt to turn up of a morning with dyed hair or altered features. These Lds thought nothing of playing such parts in Arsenic as a pair of motherly old poisoners, a drama critic who loathes the theater, a clank who thinks he is Teddy Roosevelt, a killer who tries to look like Boris Karloff. Old hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: MOPPETUNITY KNOCKS | 12/27/1943 | See Source »

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