Word: wilderment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Skin of Our Teeth (by Thornton Wilder; produced by Michael Myerberg). In Our Town Thornton Wilder abolished space and expanded Main Street into the universe. In The Skin of Our Teeth he has annihilated time and turned the Antrobus family of Excelsior, N.J. into the story of mankind. But where Our Town, despite its reckless stagecraft, was a warm and human allegory nourished with cracker-barrel wisdom, The Skin of Our Teeth is a cockeyed and impudent vaudeville littered with asides and swarming with premeditated anachronisms. Dinosaurs collide with bingo; the Muses jostle the microphone...
There were signs last week that the Red Army was already preparing a winter offensive. Behind the German lines, on the Moscow front, guerrillas got busily to work. German reports described guerrilla activities as "fantastic exploits, comparable only to Fenimore Cooper's wilder stories...
...Ankara), Harry Zinder (in Cairo), Steve Laird (in London), Holland McCombs (in Rio), Bob Sherrod and Teddy White (in Australia), Felix Belair (in Washington) and 14 others who spoke from all sorts of unexpected places. And several times our editors (like Military Expert Roy Alexander, or Foreign News Editor Wilder Hobson) have gone on the air as news commentators to give you their expert judgment on some important development...
...whole show. Her scenes on the train are at once broad, delicate and unflaggingly funny. In the cadets, she has some of the stiffest comic competition of the year. Ginger's real-life mother has a pleasant maternal moment playing her cinemama. Scenarists Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder seem to know all there is to know about the comedy inherent in the schoolboy mind. Billy Wilder, directing his first picture, puts it deftly across...
However blithe about box office, Broadway has its fears about manpower. Though it has lost fewer big names to the armed services than Hollywood, gone or going are Playwrights Sidney Kingsley (Dead End), Thornton Wilder (Our Town), William Saroyan, Jerome Chodorov (My Sister Eileen), Irwin Shaw (Bury the Dead); Actors Maurice Evans, Burgess Meredith, Lee J. Cobb; top Scene Designers Jo Mielziner, Donald Oenslager. Worse, Actors' Equity has been drained of a good fourth of its male rank & file. Casting takes longer and has to be warier: many an actor still here today may be gone tomorrow. Most available...