Word: rainbow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ervine insults ran through two editions when Philip Goodman, having read it, called up the World and had it deleted from the review of Rainbow...
...this blast, St. John Ervine made no reply until Philip Goodman produced Rainbow (TIME, Dec. 3). Then, after his customary pause of one entire day in which to make up his mind about the production, St. John Ervine wrote in part as follows...
...suspect that Philip Goodman who ... is ... expert at the consumption of food . . . must have interfered with the direction of Rainbow ... I shall not be astonished if I learn that the long wait after the second scene was due to his efforts to be helpful ... I suggest that Mr. Stallings and Mr. Hammerstein persuade Mr. Goodman to go to Italy for a month and fill himself with food so that he may fall into a torpor. . . . They must get Mr. Goodman eating or their play will collapse'. ... A sharp pruning knife. however, especially if Mr. Goodman can be sent...
...behavior of the mule and the inefficiency of scene-shifters, the opening of Rainbow was a long affair, and not so auspicious as it should have been. The story, which had an epic air, concerned a buckskin buccaneer who broke jail and joined the California gold rush, gathering women on the way. His maneuvers led him to pleasing spots, where gaming tables were and where prospectors plied their toothpicks or sang unruly songs...
...Want a Man," growled Libby Holman, and, although she frowned as she intoned her need, no one could understand why it was not instantly gratified; Louise Brown pretended charmingly to be a Colonel's daughter. While its colours were a little too bright, the Rainbow was a pleasant thing to see and, because of its rowdy theme, a good omen for future minstrelsies...