Word: mooned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Once In A Lifetime. Although George S. Kaufman has rarely written a play all by himself, he has brightened many a theatrical season with shows in whose making he collaborated (June Moon, Beggar on Horseback, Dulcy, Merton Of The Movies). With Moss Hart the whimsically insane Kaufman touch has surpassed itself in producing Once In A Lifetime, a merciless, hilariously funny lampoon on Hollywood and the cerebral content of its creatures. The only possible adverse criticism of the play might come from spectators for the near savagery of some of the blows which Mr. Kaufman deals to cinema folk with...
...story on which so much cyclonic satire is hung concerns a smalltime vaudeville team of which the smartest member is Jean Dixon (the acidic wife in June Moon). The least gifted member is Hugh O'Connell, a ludicrous gentleman who had the part of a half-drunk reporter in The Racket, a completely drunk reporter in Gentlemen of the Press. The first indication of Mr. O'Connell's competence appears when Miss Dixon asks him what he is reading. "Variety" he replies. "Why don't you read something written in English...
Ashenden was a boy when he first met Drimeld, then a struggling author, and Rosie, his beautiful barmaid wife. When the Driffields "shot the moon" (left town without paying their debts J, Ashenden thought he would never see them again. But years later, while a medical student in London, he met Rosie on the street, went home with her to tea, became an habitue of the Drimeld salon. Rosie was the chief attraction. Kindhearted, affectionate, she became Ashenden's mistress, but he knew he shared her with others. One day she ran off to the U. S. with a married...
...Though he has written some popular books and plays, his cynicism has kept the great public from crowning him a favorite. Says he cynically: "I have never called myself cynical. . . . I've always thought myself truthful." Author Maugham has written: The Trembling oj a Leaf, Of Human Bondage, The Moon and Six pence; The Gentleman in the Parlour (TIME, May 5); (plays): East of Suez, The Circle, The Letter...
Chief eye-attraction is Armida, a sprightly maiden from Hollywood (General Crack, A Texas Moon), who capers through some heelful routines. Most