Word: moss
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...keep a good thing down," the operators re-opened their theatres a few years later as Girly Shows and Follies and continued in their merry, immodest way. Last month, however, a more serious black-out threatened burlesque and the entertainment world in general when License Commissioner Moss of New York refused to renew operating permits for the Gaiety, Eltinge, and Republic Theatres, present purveyors of mid-town burlesque...
Whether the Commissioner was within his right remains to be seen for the Gaiety Theatre's lawyers say that Moss was exercising one-man censorship, without any legal claim. Nearly all the bigwigs on Broadway are siding with the burlesque houses in their fight for freedom, for, as producer Herman Schumlin says, it "smacks of censorship" without legitimate grounds. And it definitely shows that "Variety," trade paper of show business, is right in insisting that we maintain our Fifth Freedom, that of free expression in entertainment...
...Came to Dinner (Warner) continues the glorification of that rococo personality, Monty Woolley-known to his friends as "The Beard." As Lecturer Sheridan Whiteside, of George S. Kaufman's and Moss Hart's cutthroat comedy (TMWCTD), Actor Woolley merely transfers to celluloid, for the exquisite benefit of cinemaddicts and posterity, the unexpurgated version of Alexander Woollcott which he played for two years on Broadway. The switch from Broadway to Hollywood is scarcely noticeable...
...Yakutat, where the Army is constructing an air base, it rained so constantly that they had to lay concrete runways under a tent-a 600-ft.-long marquee which they rolled along the site as the concrete finally dried, hardened. On the muskeg moss plains of Annette they filled in foundations for runways with rock dynamited out of distant quarries and hauled laboriously over the mucky wasteland...
Patricia Peardon gives a thoroughly unaffected, disarming performance as Judy, while Moss Hart's direction pries every possible giggle and snicker out of the script. Gravel-voiced Lenore Lonergan as Judy's bosom pal, Fuffy, and sister Lois's motley crew of boy friends, draw several of the deeper belly laughs. Everyone at the Wilbur, on either side of the footlights, is having a wonderful time this week, but hurry over there before "Junior Miss" leaves Saturday for a long stay in New York...