Word: moss
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Spanish moss drooped from the big trees in the gloomy forest; where the country was open, sluggish streams meandered through marshes. Stolid, patient Lieut. General Walter Krueger was expecting an attack. He got it. His opponent's armor knifed into the center of Krueger's positions. It looked bad for Krueger's army. But when the armor tried to exploit its advantage, Krueger capitalized on the water-broken terrain, threw in his air force and destroyed the armor. With air power and airborne infantry, he cut the foe's communications. Then he turned his cavalry loose...
...when Danny was 27, Moss Hart saw him perform at a Manhattan nightclub, La Martinique, promptly hired him for Lady in the Dark. Opening night, he stood the audience's hair on end with his effortless recitation of 54 Russian composers' names in 40 seconds. Next season he was a full-fledged Broadway star in Let's Face It! Danny Kaye (ne Kominsky) had knocked around in show business for nearly a dozen years before that...
...Arnold Moss is an impressive Prospero with an incisive voice that gives force and significance to some of Shakespeare's most moving poetry. France Heflin portrays Miranda with an air of innocent wonder that is truly beautiful. Ballet is not out of place in "The Tempest," and Vera Zorina's Ariel has exceptional grace, if not marked dramatic excellence...
Winged Victory (20th Century-Fox), Moss Hart's crisply flamboyant salute to the Air Forces, comes to the screen substantially unchanged in cast, story and general feeling. Like the original play, it is as immaculately robust as if it had just stepped out of a barracks shower; indeed, it would gain considerably if it did not so often suggest a Boy Scout Jamboree. Like the original, too, it generates among spectators the sort of friendliness normally reserved for amateurs, since all of its male performers are Air Forces men and the profits go to Army charities. But every...
Dear Ruth has the straight Broadway virtues: smooth casting and direction (by Moss Hart), a lively charting of every navigable foot of plot, and a family album full of action shots and funny poses. Basically the characters are all tintypes, and the play uses anything that will get a laugh, lend a twist or bring down a curtain. Some of them bring down the house as well...