Word: rainbow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Uranium is not an uncommon element, but known big deposits are few. If a prospector should find one of these, his troubles would have only begun. The U.S. (like nearly every nation) regards uranium as strictly Government property. At the end of every Geiger rainbow, an FBI man is waiting...
Died. William Starling Burgess, 68, famed naval architect, designer of three successful America's Cup defenders (Ranger, Rainbow, Enterprise), pioneer airman and aircraft designer (winner of the prized Collier Trophy in 1915 for developing a self-stabilizing airplane); of a heart ailment; in Hoboken...
...exceptions, however, have almost invariably excited the public to more than ordinary demands at the box-office. In the early thirties "Of Thee I Sing," a brilliant political satire, more recently "Oklahoma!" and most immediately, the Irish fantasy "Finian's Rainbow" have found new and successful ways of putting words and music together on a stage. Other producers, however, instead of following the general example of trying something new, follow the specific example of the existing new hit. Consequently "Oklahoma!" was followed by a morass of Americana with fancy ballets, and no further progress. Rodgers and Hammerstein wrote their show...
...musical comedy public. Already tired of crudely cooked offerings audiences have demanded more subtlety in musicals. "Annie Get Your Gun," while based on old formulae, displays great advances in technique and sophistication of method. And with its appetite whetted by occasional successful novelties such as "Finian's Rainbow" and "Street Scene," perhaps the public will come to require a complete change of diet...
...brightest of the ditties, When the Idle Poor Become the Idle Rich, fills out a hilarious dream fashion-show in which the sharecroppers doll up in fantastic mailorder finery. Actor Sharpe, specially imported from Eire, makes a lively Finian, and David Wayne an immensely engaging leprechaun. Finian's Rainbow is not lacking in good things. What it really needed was an implacable blue pencil...