Word: charm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Yale students: "The Yale students have not the intellectual force of Harvard but they have all the irresistible charm of youth...
...blithely bubbling sense of humor. In an exhibit opening at a Manhattan gallery next week, Rene Magritte proves once again that he has all the technical facility of the best surrealists and almost none of their nightmare overtones. "It is much easier," he says, "to terrorize than to charm." Magritte charms with jokes-in-oils like this properly bowlered, quietly defiant self-portrait (upper right), a wine bottle turning into a carrot (above), and a sunlit sky that casts no light on the earth below...
...even more unbridled than his characters : grown men claw the carpet in temper fits, airplanes fall out of the sky, pistols are cocked, china is smashed, women are chased through heather and hall. If family life has seldom been so discredited, it has seldom possessed such genuine if turbulent charm. Misalliance has, to be sure, its limitations. It could stand cutting; and though its method conquers the audience, in the end it defeats itself. The play can mean so many things that it really means nothing...
...Gigi's grandmother, Josephine Brown dominates the rest of the cast, but Margaret Bannerman is properly imperious as a retired mistress of kings. To the role of Gigi's mother, a frustrated Lakme in whom champagne brings out the Bell Song, Doris Patston contributes a giddy charm and a hefty coloratura. Michael Evans is too flamboyant as the roue snared by innocence, but Bertha Belmore's comic maid is the most accomplished scene stealer on the current stage...
...week part-time cub on his home-town Lafayette (Ind.) Morning Journal. He was campus correspondent for the Indianapolis Star during two years at Purdue, became pressagent for the Indianapolis Speedway, and the daredevil exploits of its racing drivers. Impressed by Hannagan's zip and Irish charm, Publisher Roy W. Howard took him to New York to work for the United Press, later set him writing N.E.A.'s Broadway column. Flamboyant Steve quit after four years to go back to work for the Speedway's owner,Millionaire Carl Fisher, who was also trying to develop Miami Beach...