Word: mosses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Independent Citizens' Committee of the Arts, Sciences & Professions, Inc., among whose labor statesmen are numbered Cinemactress Olivia de Havilland, Actor Fredric March and Playwright Moss Hart, got into the fray with $1,840 worth of newspaper ads. They urged Americans to contribute to the strikers at General Motors, General Electric, U.S. Steel or "any other struck corporation." (Presumably each strike's issues and merits were beside the point...
...return of the Hunt Ball would be a bracer to tradition-loving England, to county social life and most of all to Moss Bros., London renters of clothing. They succored many a desperate ballgoer whose best tailcoat had been sacrificed to bombs or moths or had been cut into women's suits by coupon-short females...
...Dream Girl" will inevitably be compared with "Lady in the Dark," what with the dream sequences and the choice between males. Rice is less pretentious and more entertaining than was Moss Hart. And Miss Field can spot Gertrude Lawrence all those elaborate night dreams with songs and dances, and still come out ahead on general charm and reality...
...possible, give them a hairy-chested appeal. Hollywood's Courtley, Ltd. said gruffly: "A shaving lotion for he-men only." (But Manhattan's Faberge, Inc. was selling a cologne: "Aphrodisia for Men.") Courtley Ltd.'s bubble baths had ruddy, full-blooded titles: "Chukker," "Steeple Chase," "Irish Moss." Parfums L'Orle Inc. of Manhattan had "Buckskin" and "Touchwood" perfumes ("Just for your handkerchief, of course") at $5 an ounce. Another managed to combine the smell of "the finest cognac, cedarwood, Russian leather and the great outdoors...
...Although Moss Hart's direction is generally tasteful, he has his actors degenerate into over-emotional climaxes that spoil much of the last act. In spire of all this "The Secret Room" is steadily interesting and the very neat final curtain has some of the quality of a last minute winning touchdown...