Word: wondering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wonder if your artist realized how perfectly the bound crosses behind Bishop Oxnam's picture demonstrate the failure of many modern churches. No longer are church leaders willing to let an individual Christ on an individual cross strive to save an individual soul; rather they must concern themselves with organization...
...that the suit would cost him the same as Comp. Lit. 3. Here was a new equality; he had never thought of education in those terms before. Either fabric was less or learning was more--in any case, it was a change. A well cut suit, he thought. I wonder if Comp. Lit. 3 is well...
Amiably enough piloted from act to act by Tom Ewell (John Loves Mary), Small Wonder is most pepped up by the singing, spoofing and sass of attractive young Mary McCarty (Sleepy Hollow). With only one unhackneyed satirical target, the show has a sharp eye for such riddled ones as movie endings, magazine ads, the Jazz Age. The fresh gag is Ballad for Billionaires (music by Albert Selden, lyrics by Billings Brown). Sample...
Betweenwhiles, unfortunately, Small Wonder cranks out too many routine songs like Nobody Told Me or When I Fall in Love...
...lose money. Last season's Allegro rolled up an impressive 315 performances but left the Theatre Guild short on an investment of some $300,000. Heaven on Earth is also in the $300,000 class, and still more costly projects lie ahead. Last week, perversely enough, Small Wonder, produced for $24,000 less than its low-budgeted $150,000, was the only new production that seemed to be catching...