Word: notion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...best Philip Barry tradition, "Foolish Notion" steers pointedly clear of the many problems presently besetting the world and sets before its audience neat, imaginative comedy with a touch of light sophistication that makes for decidedly good theatre. Instead of tackling the complexities of international intrigue, playwright Barry and his leading lady, Tallulah Bankhead, plunge into Sophie Wing's domestic difficulties, complex and intriguing in their own entertaining...
...long as matters remain witty, "Foolish Notion" is a remarkably edifying Play Javishly spiced with fast patter and an air of fantasy. Tallulsh's Sophie slinks along through three acts, charging each gag line with the solid note of Bankhead innuendo; Joan Shopard, recently of "Tomorrow the World," nearly steals several scenes as Happy, Sophic's quipping adopted daughter. During the rare moments when wit is forgotten and Barry's heady continuity fumbles, Miss Shepard comes to the rescue with extremely competent timing and humor sense for a performer of her years. Once or twice in the opening...
Maria Manton, 20, flame-haired daughter of Marlene Dietrich, preparing to make her Broadway debut in a play called Foolish Notion, announced that she would stand on her own two legs-though they were not as shapely nor as celebrated as her mother's. Said Maria: "I have never done anything but be born to a famous mother. ... I want to get some place by myself. . . . That is why . . . I am not interested in movies...
...Army's toughest job is to give the man confidence, disabuse him of any notion that he is useless or unattractive. One of its most effective devices is demonstrations of skill by such famed crippled veterans as Charles Craig McGonegal (TIME, Feb. 14). When a crippled veteran is finally discharged from the Army, he has a life pension (e.g., $30 a month for a leg) and has usually begun to learn a trade. What General Kirk and his staff fear most is that oversolicitous or thoughtless civilians may undo their careful work...
...operate profitably the economy of the world as a whole. In the past, almost without exception, the world economy has never been operated; rather it has been operated on by nations in the process of trying to improve their individual economies-a procedure as shortsighted as the long-outdated notion that a company can be operated without regard to the welfare of its customers or its suppliers...