Word: mooned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Shuberts spent a great deal of money on a Franz Lehar operetta, entitled "The Moon Rises," and succeeded in making it one of the most elaborately tedious shows of the year. With the expensive assistance of two comedians, two specialty dancers, one tall-dark-handsome-gypsy hero, one glamorous-from-Paris heroine, and a large chorus, they attempted to reproduce the atmosphere which has made so many of their past ventures successful. Unfortunately, the day of Mr. Franz Lehar seems to be over. Conventional tunes, unfunny lines, a complicated and ill-written plot combine to make "The Moon Rises" seem...
...cast weaves its way through the messy plot principally against a background of a Roumanian chateau, solidly built, attributable only to the architectural school which conceived Steuben's Rathskeller. Singing with irrelevant gestures, fullface always to the audience, the players in "The Moon Rises" are forced to be more aggressively charming than most musical comedy actors because every line given them, must, to survive, be punctuated with a sweeping gesture, or a flashing smile...
...rivers at twilight and by factories in the glare of noon. Mountains shouldered out of the plains in front and fell away to the horizons behind. He saw the sun catch the chromium glint, of the skyscraper and he watched a single pine tear the rising moon to shreds on a distant hill. And always by the side of old and winding roads, on the kerbs of four-width highways, red dress. On steps, in doorways, by the side of old and winding roads, on the kerbs of four-width highways. And always as her laugh rang through the twilight...
...past times the Vagabond has written of spring as a season of roaring brooks, thawing snows, bursting buds, foaming mugs, a yellow moon, drifting music, and charming laughter. But it is none of these, delightfully as he said so. Nor yet was Tennyson correct when, with awful Victorian punctilio, he wrote of a dove and a young man's fancy. It is only a time when for a few weeks a man will spend his pay check on poor movies, bad beer, a rented canoe, and a ride on a roller coaster. And all because the shrubs grow greener upon...
...just a dainty bird, my fans are my wings, and the spotlight is the moon," declared Sally Rand as she discussed her famed dance with a CRIMSON reporter in the dressing room of a Cleveland theatre last week. "My dance isn't immoral, it requires art like any other dance and if you don't believe it, you might try it some time." The reporter declined Miss Rand's kind invitation and decided to take her word for it, as he watched her twirl a large white fan over her head with graceful movements...