Word: smashes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Their fathers may be pants cutters, college professors or margarine magnates, but they can run for Vice President, discover vaccines, smash the atom, teach Latin, or, in the Mitty manner, dream violently of heroic adventure...
...season's first smash hit, The Boy Friend, saw its author locked out of rehearsals with a detective guarding the door. Silk Stockings was more spotlighted during its harassed tryout than are most hits at the peak of their run. Such so-so plays as Anastasia and Inherit the Wind packed enough second-act wallop to have the whole town talking. House of Flowers featured gorgeous rival bordellos, Lunatics and Lovers a bubble bath onstage...
...base on balls to Bill Cleary began the uprising. After Cornell hurler Bill DeGraff wild-pitched him to second, Matt Botsford started the hit barrage with a smash to right, driving in Cleary. Bill Chauncey singled home Botsford, who had reached second on the throw to the plate...
...British theatergoers do not insist on seeing a smash hit, but are satisfied with "a jolly good little play...
Kinsey & Sanskrit. The first clear sign that the U.S. had again caught the recitation bug was the smash success of the First Drama Quartette (Agnes Moorehead, Charles Laughton, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Charles Boyer) in Bernard Shaw's Don Juan in Hell, later superbly recorded by Columbia ($11.90). Then the three volumes of I Can Hear It Now . . . (Columbia; $5.95 each), Edward R. Murrow's playback of headlines and speeches from 1919 to 1949, sold a total of 500,000 sets. More than two dozen companies put tons of Vinylite at the disposal of almost anyone who would talk...