Word: misses
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Near Miss for Adams...
...only does Conerly of Ole Miss rank as the nation's most successful passer, but he is first in total yardage gained-passing and rushing. . . . [Also] he has taken part in 61% of all Rebel plays to date. His defensive play has been as outstanding as his offensive...
...into his people, not action, that Coward throws his efforts here. Basically a tour the forced for Gertrude Lawrence, the apparently flawless supporting cast is spread out in a half-dozen beautiful roles. Uneasy colonials, brash ladies, amorphic gentlemen all flow around the sparkling currents of Miss Lawrence's personality and Mr. Coward's lightest lines in a piece which is to the best degree pure entertainment...
Second on the program is "Fumed Oak," a low pitched middle-class drama which almost succeeds by contrast to the first offering only to father at the final curtain when Coward steps the action dead to allow his here to unwind the lives of the participants. Philip Tonge and Miss Lawrence play off beautifully against each other, but they are helpless in the face of the recurrent Coward tendency to be patronizing to the lower classes...
Both Coward and Miss Lawrence recover them, selves completely in the final "Shadow Play," easily the most engaging of the evening's offerings. A combination of deft music and engaging dances makes such songs as the lifting "You Were There" the strongest features of a convincing fantasy. Coward, writing for Miss Lawrence, is consistently excellent as he always is when he has his players in mind. It is unformatted that he does not play opposite her as in the original production, for although Graham Payn is a competent imitator of Coward, Coward performing Coward still seems to be the happiest...