Word: sourest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With shows opening four nights in a row, the new Broadway season was going strong last week, but the plays were still going sour. The sourest was a short-lived horror, intended as a comedy, called Grandma's Diary. The others...
...stirred another move by Labor Secretary Lew Schwellenbach to bring union and company together this week. For Walter Geist, who is evidently determined to break Local 248's grip on the plant, it gave accent to his contention of "irresponsible leadership" in the union. One of the sourest labor disputes in the country had gone bitter again...
...artists delicately tuned their queer looking instruments to the note A from a piano. Then they played some of the eeriest, sweetest, funniest, saddest, sourest and most heavenly music ever heard. The first concert of the sextet of emiritons roused occasional flutters of approval and once in a while a great burst of laughter. Bach, Mozart, Wagner, Tchaikovsky and Beethoven never batted...
...Have and Have Not (Warner), having jettisoned a solid 90% of the Ernest Hemingway novel, for which Warner Bros, paid plenty, may make devotees of Hemingway the sourest boycotters since Carrie Nation.* But the sea change which Producer-Director Howard Hawks supervised-for the benefit of Humphrey Bogart, Hoagy (Star Dust) Carmichael, and a sensational newcomer named Lauren Bacall (rhymes with McCall)-results in the kind of tinny romantic melodrama which millions of cinemaddicts have been waiting forever since Casablanca (TIME...
...with a national day's box office of about $3,000,000. Its first box office, in a converted Broadway shoe store, on the Saturday evening of April 14, 1894, sold $120 worth of admissions. Since then the movies have developed in many directions. Last week's sourest note in the movie business was struck when...