Word: mosse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tallulah's physical stamina is rather frightening to her friends. Playwright Moss Hart once got away from one of her Hollywood parties at 6 a.m., passed her house late the next afternoon and claims the party was still going strong. On election night, rooting for President Truman and convinced that he would win, Tallulah did not go to sleep at all. Then she played a matinee and an evening show and went right on celebrating...
...Californians studied the results of the Moss Stores Panty Poll. Moss had introduced two new women's panties, one embroidered with "Dewey-Warren," the other with "Truman-Barkley." Results of the poll to date (by sales): Dewey-Warren...
...Boston stage. Some, like the Tributary Theater's production of Anna Christie at New England Mutual Hall, are revivals. Some, like Finian's Rainbow and Harvey, are returning to Boston after long runs on Broadway. And others, such as Michael Todd's new production As the Girls Go, Moss Hart's Light Up the Sky, or Josephine Hull and Eddie Dowling's Minnle and Mr. Williams, are on their first trial runs here before hitting the big time...
...bleak Ungava,* the stunted tamarack had turned burnt amber and each morning light snow frosted the tough caribou moss. For the engineers probing the biggest iron ore deposit since Minnesota's Mesabi, it was time to call it a summer. Day after day a little Norseman seaplane dipped down on to Quebec and Labrador lakes, picked up men and supplies, moved them back to the main base at Burnt Creek (pop. 190). This week the twelve drills were operating close by Burnt Creek. Next week they would be silent, and the year's work would...
...With Moss Hart, it isn't the plot that counts, but the trimmings. Actually the story is concerned with a bright young man who has switched from trucks to typewriters and has written something new in the way of drama. This young man finds that the people who once seemed to be his devotees desert him when his play appears headed for failure. The playwright then loses his faith in his play as well as in his associates; but eventually he becomes as tough as the rest of them, and goes on with the job. The plot is slow...