Word: moss
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...attempts at guessing the market by studying the thickness of the moss on trees, the number of lemmings, postal receipts in Milwaukee and the activity of sunspots" add that old reliable indicator-TIME'S jinx...
...market will do, Wall Streeters have developed theories to suit every whim. They range from the conservative old Dow Theory- so conservative that anyone who followed it since end would have missed most major market turns by - to attempts at guessing the market by studying the of the moss on trees, the number of lemmings, receipts in Milwaukee and the activity of sunspots...
...King of the Khyber Rifles (TIME, Jan. 11), the hero (Rock Hudson) is a British officer, who in this case has a Midwestern twang to his speech. He affects to defect to the enemy, but only in order to diddle some secrets out of a raja (Arnold Moss) with a slight New York accent. Add to the linguistic confusion a Hindu girl (Ursula Thiess) who has a German accent, and even the children for whom the movie is intended may suspect that the action is not quite faithful to history...
...plus a dozen big musical sequences, makes Star a mighty long gulp of champagne; but, like champagne, it is hard to refuse. Simply in the writing, for instance, there is a sureness rare in musicomedy librettos-and no wonder: Poetess Dorothy Parker worked on the 1937 script, and Playwright Moss Hart had that to draw on for this one. There is some fine Hollywood off-camera stuff: the great star being fastidious about his amours ("Too young. I had a very young week last week"); the little nobody taking her screen test ("Cut!" the director bellows in horror...
Second Spec. At week's end, NBC gamely presented its second spectacular, a TV version of the 1941 Moss Hart musical, Lady in the Dark, starring Ann Sothern. Just like the first spectacular, it was big, beautiful and contained too many production numbers. There was such a quantity of large-scale scenes that the camera could take only a few closeups during the 1½-hour show and many viewers may have felt that they were watching the entire production through the wrong end of a telescope...