Word: mooned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...took the tuxedoed auctioneer 2¾ hours to sell 60 sleek thoroughbreds for a record $1,553,500. The setting was impressive; a pale half-moon hung over the infield at Santa Anita; there were as many rows of press tables as at a heavyweight fight. Powerful spotlights flooded the auction ring in front of the clubhouse, making the horses nervous as they were led in one by one, numbers glued to their hindquarters. Everybody who amounted to anything in Southern California's racetrack and cinema industries (an almost interchangeable cast of characters) was there...
...DARK SIDE OF THE MOON (299 pp.)-Anonymous-Preface by T. S. Eliotf-Scribner...
...general feeling was that A Moon for the Misbegotten is a far more impressive play than The Iceman Cometh. There was also a feeling that like Iceman, Moon will run into censorship troubles if & when it tries to shine on Boston (see PEOPLE). The play is pretty frank in general and the Irish farmer has some bitter things to say in particular about Standard Oil, churchgoers, English royalty. Moon is of hardly more than conventional length, but there was general agreement that it could stand some cutting. As a piece of writing it is rich in poetry. As drama...
Beautiful Ugliness. Samuel T. Wilson, Columbus Dispatch drama critic and dean of Columbus reviewers, wrote that Moon is "the playwright's present towering achievement as a dramatic craftsman and above all as a poet . . . full of sentiment, music and meaning, warmth of human observation and comment, and vast sorrowfulness." Bud Kissel of the Columbus Citizen disputed: "A competent cast that never muffed a line nor missed a cue wasted their talents on an unimportant play." But Mary McGavran of the Ohio State Journal called the play "beautiful in its very ugliness." And William F. McDermott of the Cleveland Plain...
Nearly everyone agreed that it was still rough in spots. But that was to be expected at a world premiere, normally synonymous with a tryout opening. A Moon for the Misbegotten will do more than try out before it reaches Broadway; it will make a considerable tour of the Midwest. This week, Cleveland; thence to Pittsburgh, Detroit, St. Louis. It may not come to Broadway at all before fall...