Maid in the Ozarks (by Claire Parrish; produced by Jules Pfeiffer) reached Broadway after five years of racketing about the country (TIME, March 29, 1943). Before running up the curtain, Producer Pfeiffer set a Broadway precedent by running down the play. Said his outsize newspaper ads: "The management of Maid in the Ozarks believes that the . . . critical consensus will be that this . . . is the worst play that has ever hit Broadway."
The critics readily obliged. The Mirror's tribute: "One of the . . . nastiest . . . exhibits ever to contaminate a theater." The Post's:...
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