Word: showings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hear a good deal from double-domes," editorialized the News, "about how Americans are uncultured, semiliterate boors [yet] to this show, which didn't open until 3:00 p.m., came 41,725 persons [in] one day . . . Just what do our cultured detractors here and elsewhere make of that...
...mild-seeming man with a crew cut and a boyishly diffident manner, Cadmus had turned to abstract themes. His new show centered around seven two-foot-high panels representing nothing less than the Seven Deadly Sins...
Apart from Herrin and the Sins, the most ambitious picture in the show was a summer landscape seething with happy nudes and entitled What I Believe. The painting did not make Cadmus' belief plain (unless he had meant to plump for nudism and close quarters), but it did at least indicate, said Cadmus, "that I don't really hate people...
...folksy side, the show has some agreeable music and peppy dancing, but nothing better; and as if Texas weren't big enough, it makes several fumbling forays across the state line into Oklahoma!. The show is actually best when it has a straight Broadway blare and stomp and when the cast, which could use more personal glamour, can show its professional savvy. Somehow Texas just can't find the right girl or gag in the pinches; it dawdles when it needs to spurt, and turns cheap when it ought to be charming...
...playing manager-but no one was certain Veeck had not played it that way deliberately. Boudreau stayed by public acclamation next season, and every time he crossed the plate he scowled up at Veeck's box. Cleveland thought it knew exactly what Boudreau was muttering-"That'll show him." Boudreau in his biggest year in baseball showed the boss so well that the Indians won their first American League pennant in 28 years. When they also beat the Boston Braves in the World Series it was the signal for Bill Veeck to throw a party...