Word: reviews
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Moss produced several Broadway plays. Rich at 30, Paul Moss retired, lapped up culture by "attending every lecture in town." He was no novice at censorship when LaGuardia appointed him License Commissioner in 1934. For the seven preceding years he had been a member of the National Board of Review, watchdog of cinemorality...
...hale them to court?", Commissioner Moss emphatically replied: "No ma'am!" *Last week the City Center itself put on a lusty Frankie and Johnnie ballet which might well have attracted a censor's attention (see Music). Taunted Daily News Critic John Chapman in his review: "License Commissioner Paul Moss last night sponsored a dirty show which had in it bawds, a pimp and a couple of Lesbians." And Columnist Leonard Lyons recalled that Moss once co-produced Noel Coward's This Was a Man, which the Lord Chamberlain banned in England as indecent...
...Brown, who was president of the Harvard Dramatic Club in 1922, was a leading dramatic critic for the New York Post before going into the Navy and is now Associate Editor of the Saturday Review of Literature. Lt. Brown will deliver a Winthrop Ames Memorial Lecture...
That, I submit, is a one-line review of Hollywood Canteen. The whole glittering intricate thing blew up in our faces, and when we made our way back to the tents, stumbling and trying to avoid the foxholes in the dark, there was a fierce resentment burning like acetylene in each of us. . . . It was as though we'd been taken into a millionaire's home, treated like uncouth fools to whom a debt was unfortunately owed, then sent back, dazed by the splendorous kindliness of the mighty, to our six-by-three lives...
...Your review of my Wife to Mr. Milton (TIME, Nov. 27) has just arrived, with reviews from other leading U.S. literary journals...