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...Although Moss Hart's direction is generally tasteful, he has his actors degenerate into over-emotional climaxes that spoil much of the last act. In spire of all this "The Secret Room" is steadily interesting and the very neat final curtain has some of the quality of a last minute winning touchdown...
...best he could do, after training on hard surfaces had pounded the spring from his legs. When deflated Gunder got home, he went to Valadalen in northern Sweden, where he had trained in the palmy days of his 4:04.6 and 4:06.2 miles. Over trails quilted with moss and pine needles, he slowly coaxed the fjader (spring) back into his legs...
Everybody said that San Francisco made progress. But how much and what kind of progress, from where to where? Was the charter just Dumbarton Oaks festooned with a Spanish moss of phrases? Or did it bring the world nearer to genuine world government...
...Moss Hart, bearded like the part, returned from a Pacific tour in The Man Who Came to Dinner. The playwright swore he was now through with both beard and acting: "Whatever...
...quarter battle was under way that lasted until the century's end. To the artistic rebels, the oldtime Victorian painter kowtowed to an ignorant, over-sentimental public. He also debased the sanctity of art by making line and form play second fiddle to maudlin subject matter and moss-backed morality...