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...musical comedy entitled Silk Stockings. There will be a full house, of course--there is always a full house at Broadway openings when the play has been created by such big names a Feuer and Martin George S. Kaufman, Abe Burrows, Cole Porter, and Jo Mielziner. The aura of a big hit will...
...their parts as bad men that the intended touches of the sinister and sadistic fall to the level of good, wholesome farce. Even when a renegade American brandishes a broken whiskey bottle in Cooper's face and growls, "My father always said the bottle could ruin a man," an aura of good-natured jollity pervades the film. The cockles of the heart warm perceptibly when Lancaster's vicious cut-throats drag a group of innocent children into a building as hostages...
Traditionally the Christmas season lasts a little longer in Washington than in the rest of the nation. From the time the huge Christmas tree goes up across from the White House to the delivery of the annual State of the Union message in January, an aura of good feeling suffuses the nation's capital. This spirit was especially evident in the plea for "harmony and good will" which the President made in his address last week...
Glamorous Aura. Four decades ago a businessman named Ichizo Kobayashi became president of the 30-mile-long electric railway from Osaka to Takarazuka (Treasure Mound). To improve his road's languishing business, he decided that he needed a major attraction at the end of the line, began to convert the terminal town into a super music hall. For a stage he covered a swimming pool with boards...
...graduated to the chorus (pay: 10,000 yen a month, or $27.77). The 30 stars make ten times that much. The girls wear blue jeans, sweaters, and horsetail hairdos in school, do their own housekeeping and live by a motto:'"Be pure, be right, be beautiful." Their glamorous aura of unattainableness makes them idols to millions of Japanese fans...