Word: wolfed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wolf at the Door. In spite of his bitter news, Italy's Constituent Assembly cheered him when he addressed it in Italian, sprinkled with Broadwayese. When he reminded the Italians that UNRRA had poured into the country $450.000,000 of supplies ("quello non é paglia-that ain't hay"), the city of Rome gave him a silver replica of the she-wolf nursing Romulus and Remus. To an aide, La Guardia whispered: "Is this for keeps?" When the aide nodded yes, LaGuardia smiled, patted the she-wolf on the rump and said: "This beats anything we ever gave...
...though enjoyable, has little in the way of sustained humor, originality, or cleverness; "All the Cats Join In," featuring Benny Goodman, shows Disney's skill in animation but nothing else. Beyond these there is only boredom, comparable, in a way, to watching an army training film. "Peter and the Wolf" was obviously aimed at the children's trade and has no appeal for adults. "Two Silhouettes" features a sickening ballet to the accompaniment of the equally sickening singing of Dinah Shore. Andy Russell's singing will probably not even get a rise out of the bobby soxers, while the Andrews...
Adapted from a 1936 movie called Libeled Lady (starring Jean Harlow), the complicated plot of Easy to Wed is oddly obtrusive for a musical. Van Johnson, whose millions of avid fans were first won by his freckle-nosed, boyish charm, is woefully miscast as a professional wolf who makes a living by compromising ladies. Only Comedienne Lucille Ball, a brash, bubbling extravert who is frequently used to bolster up badly contrived Hollywood farces, remains unfazed and funny through...
...included in the evangelical and reconstruction program (though represented at last week's convention): Japan's lone-wolf Catholics and Episcopalians. They stubbornly resisted the Government's efforts for a wartime merger of Christian churches, and are continuing to go their own way in peace...
...Belita (real name: Belita Gladys Lyne Jepson-Turner). Playing the star of an elaborate rink called the Ice Gardens, and wife of the owner, Belita cuts as fancy a figure on a bedroom set as she does on ice. Her problem is to keep a chilly eye on Wolf Barry Sullivan, a criminally aggressive peanut hawker at the Gardens who covets both his boss's business investment and home life. The big skating spectacles, considerably more thrilling than the thrills-&-chills story, leave hardly any time for tidying up all the plot complications of passion and homicide...