Word: boyish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pyle's nut-brown heroes haunted subsequent illustrators in oil. So did their love of historical romance. One of their stylistic descendants is Norman Rockwell (45), whose first Saturday Evening Post cover appeared in May 1916, and who has grown rich on the subsequent 185. A perpetually delighted, boyish man much like his own schoolboy characters, Norman Rockwell paints with unvarying lovability, blatant technical flair and particularly lusty highlights. He and Mead Schaeffer, his good friend and fellow romancer, turned up at last week's ball in costumes they were then engaged in painting...
Moonfaced, blue-shirted Richard Watts Jr. (Herald Tribune), was formerly the H. T's cinema critic. Boyish (Broadway's loudest heigh-hoer of good-looking actresses), he is also thoughtful (Broadway's briskest champion of social-minded plays). Often acute, Watts chiefly errs in being too rhapsodic about what he likes...
Mechanical cost of each of the four Ring productions is about $2,500. As yet no machinery or stage effect has been devised to make paunchy Tenor Lauritz Melchior or big-womanly Soprano Kirsten Flagstad, and the likes of them, resemble the boyish Siegfried, the maidenly Briinnhilde...
...Welles plays Falstaff, and his characterization is always good and sometimes excellent Burgess Meredith has the part of Prince Hal, but he seems too boyish in his rendition and not at all gallivanting; furthermore his occasional lapses into a "toity-toid street" accent, ostensibly for lightness, does little credit to Shakespeare's blank verse. John Emery, as Hotspur, has great vitality, but often he palls in tearing his passions to tatters. Morris Ankrum as Henry IV gives a sterling performance throughout, and outstanding in the lighter vein are Gus Schilling, as Bardolph, and John Berry, as Poins...
...Boyish-looking Roy Shreck, who takes off from Spokane, Wash., each midnight and climbs to 16,500 feet to take temperature, pressure and humidity readings, was in a particular fix, the worst he had seen in his three years of flying for the U. S. Weather Bureau...