Word: splash
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Inside U.S.A. (suggested by John Gunther's book; music & lyrics by Arthur Schwartz and Howard Dietz; sketches by Arnold Auerbach, Moss Hart and Arnold B. Horwitt; produced by Mr. Schwartz) opened to splash notices and may well run for two years. All the same, some first-nighters found it the least enjoyable Bea Lillie show in a long time. Not that it is really bad or botched: it is all thoroughly professional. It is also thoroughly unoriginal and unexhilarating; it not only fails to shed light of its own, but even dims the cherished Lillie luster...
Look, Ma, I'm Dancin' (music & lyrics by Hugh Martin; book by Jerome Lawrence & Robert E. Lee; produced by George Abbott) hit on a bright subject for a musical: ballet. There was plenty to spotlight, spoof, and splash with color. But Look, Ma isn't quite up to the job. It has its undeniable high points; but as a whole it doesn't come...
...surgical patient can never hope to lie in a bed of roses, but it is becoming less & less a bed of pain. Without making head lines, or much of a splash, a steady drip of knowledge goes on eroding much of the hospital's horror...
Coach Hal Ulen has a knack of sifting talent in unpromising disguises. Before Forbes "Ted" Norris ever stepped into the shallow pool for a splash, Ulen had fashioned a two-year high scorer in '39 and '40 out of Eric Cutler, a victim of polio taking the aquatic form of treatment...
...dazzling George Ivanovich Gurdjieff as a spellbinder to wandering intelligentsia. He had himself been a Gurdjieffean for a time, but the two mystics parted when Ouspensky began to think he should be more than just a disciple. Not as hypnotic personally as Gurdjieff, Ouspensky never made as great a splash in the U.S., which he visited as a lecturer in 1942. But his first and last novel will remain readable longer than Gurdjieff's extant pronouncements, for Ouspensky knew how to write...