Word: charm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Whether the proposition was good or bad never bothered Dealer Seagraves. With rare charm and uncanny mental footwork, he could tell the truth about a doubtful investment in such a way as to make it seem attractive. "He is even accurate in his misrepresentations,'' admitted his enemies, and before long, Odie had built up valuable financial connections...
Some of TV's best shows are the bright little animated-cartoon commercials that charm the viewer into yielding to Madison Avenue's "soft sell." The best of them, such as the Harry and Bert beer ads, come from Hollywood's UPA Pictures, Inc., whose booming output has not only rescued it from the theater slump but spawned branch studios in Manhattan and London. Last week, acting on the obvious conclusion, CBS began showing UPA's cartoon artistry strictly for its own entertaining sake. Aglow with ingenuity as radiant as its Technicolor, the Boing-Boing Show...
Part of the charm of Much Ado About Me is its period-piece Americana. It tells of the last fun Fred Allen had being funny. To the radio years, he brought his nagging instinct for perfectionism. TV he merely lip-serviced waspishly. To Much Ado About Me (finished shortly before his death nine months ago), Allen brought not only the fondness of his memories, but the rueful tone and the hint of deri sion that, years before, led him to write...
...resurrect this legend in the dubious form of a Cinderella story, with undertones of the old amnesia plot. The play has now become a film vehicle for the resurrection of Ingrid Bergman as a major attraction at the box office. Moviegoers are likely to find the charm of these accumulated resurrections more than slightly wormy...
...born Alexei Jawlensky took refuge in Switzerland, after being expelled from Germany without being permitted to take along so much as one painting. To his aid came a young German painter, Emy Scheyer, one of the many women who found Jawlensky's combination of bearlike strength and artistocratic charm irresistible. She gave up painting to devote her life to promoting his work, built up her own collection to include more than 120 of Jawlensky's works, which, along with those of Klee, Kandinsky and Feininger, are now kept intact as a permanent Blue Four exhibit at the Pasadena...