Word: mosses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whet the edge of its skepticism toward the New Deal, tart old Boston reveled last week in the ribbing 59-year-old George M. Cohan gave 55-year-old Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Actor Cohan, prime Down East favorite, was appearing in the tryout run of the George S. Kaufman-Moss Hart satire, I'd Rather Be Right, due on Broadway next month. Mummer Cohan wore a pince-nez, assumed a Groton inflection in opening his fireside chats. Musing on budget-balancing and third terms, he sang a song called Off The Record, confiding "I'm very fond...
George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart wrote the book; Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart wrote the songs. Nevertheless, the combination seems sadly uninspired. "Of Thee I Sing" should have remained a final expression; "I'd Rather Be Right" has very little to add to the former's artistic trenchaney. The new work is a highly specific representation of the present administration, with ridicule hurled at everybody in it. Jim Farley, Henry Morgenthau, and Madame Secretary Perkins are undoubtedly fit subjects for the lampooner's art, and the caricatures of them are skillfully drawn. But the President is scarcely touched when...
Unlike British Major Geoffrey McNeill-Moss's factually authoritative but notably pro-Rebel account of one of the most heroic episodes in Spain's civil war (The Siege of Alcazar; Knopf: $3.50), Sommerfield's book is unpretentious historically, uninsistent politically, is marred only by a too-obvious leaning towards Ernest Hemingway in style. It provides an excellent report of one man's experiences, impressions, in battle, offers in two or three of its episodes descriptions hardly-to-be-forgotten of life in wartime. For these in particular, most readers will find it valuable...
...philosophy of the play is expressed in the title. The substance of the play is the ludicrous madness of the Sycamores, and here it is that the genius of Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman finds its full play. There is very little serious relief between one laugh and the next. The plot of the play has to do with the skepticism of one of the daughters. She thinks that she'll have to give up her beau because his family is decidedly different from the Sycamores. But he is soon won over to the happy-go-lucky system...
Details such as neither U. S. nor United Kingdom journalists ever cable about the Royal Family appeared last week in the Toronto Star, whose M. H. Halton went to the latest Buckingham Palace garden party. Excerpts: "I'm sure Earl Baldwin didn't rent his clothes at Moss Brothers, because his pants looked as if they'd never been pressed. ... He looked very white and very tired, and it was interesting to see him and his wife shun the royalties and walk off among the flowers. . . . The King looked well cared for and healthy. . . . Most...