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Snooks first came into being at a private party in Manhattan. In the course of singing a patter song, Poor Pauline, Miss Brice lapsed into baby talk. Years later Moss Hart wrote a Snooks skit for Sweet and Low, but Snooks was officially recognized when she was included in the Brice routine for the 1934 Follies. The late Dave Freedman and Phil Rapp, who still writes the Maxwell House script, collaborated on material for Snooks. A couple of years later Fanny ran through the Snooks skit as a guest of Maxwell House. Signed up as a permanent attraction...
...Freshman contest was prevented from being a blank only by Captain Ted Guild, who won a 14 to 12 decision in an overtime in the 128-pound class. Jim Reidy, Bill Watson, Charlie Purinton, and Dug Burns were able to hold their opponents down to decisions, while Bill Moss, Frank Houston, and George Blanchard were all pinned...
...very good performances. He has wrestled in all the meets, losing his bout in only one. He is an old hand at the sport, as he was a member of the Exeter team for three years. There are three contenders for the 145-pound position, Earnest Jackson, Bill Moss, and Bill Watson. All three have wrestled in at least one meet, although Watson is the only one with previous experience...
...weeks Broadway had buzzed with rumors that Playwright Moss Hart, who is being psychoanalyzed, would bring to town a Freudian musical play?a play that would startle the theatre as Doctor Sigmund himself once startled the hospital. Then Broadway stopped buzzing and began to huzzah, for last week Producer Sam Harris delivered Moss Hart's Lady in the Dark, a $130,000 baby...
...Moss Hart's play idea is 18-carat. A hard-working editress of a fashion magazine, unhappy despite her enviable job and a devoted married lover, goes to get herself psyched. With that the play dissolves into a psychoanalytical circus with four revolving rings. The scene shifts from the psychoanalyst's office to the Allure office, to the young lady's dreams, and back again. Playwright Hart puts anything on the stage that he wishes?a love affair, sophisticated neuro-drama. fashion parades, farce, musical dream fantasias. And the lovely editress learns that she really wants to be less editorial...