Word: charm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...half-shuttered windows at Nice; he brought them indoors onto canvas. His scores of "odalisques"-with a bosomy local girl posing amid a few harem props -were among his best-known pictures, not so much cheesecake as souffle, not so much woman's form as woman's charm...
Carson gets Lemmon a date with something "basic" (Kim Novak), who gives him that little-girl look, confides that she almost went to college and majored in music - "I was a drum majorette." Meanwhile, Judy has an experience with a charm boy (Donald Curtis) who asks her up to his "an teem" apartment. Jack enters a painting class, sprouts a moustache and buys a lima bean-shaped sports-car. So it goes, and very merrily indeed, until separate existence is just too much to wrestle with, and Judy and Jack get a firm new wedlock on each other...
Camara Laye is a young Negro from French Guinea, now studying in Paris, who has written a brief, effective autobiography, THE DARK CHILD (188 pp.; Noonday Press; $2.75). It has an aura of primitive charm that is fully matched by its simple dignity. Laye came from Kouroussa, a town in the interior, where his father was a famous goldsmith. The town was near the railroad and had a hospital and schools, but its inhabitants believed in spirits and magic spells, although they were Moslems. Laye is firmly convinced that his mother had magic powers, tells how even the witch doctors...
...whole show comes in the Second Act when a man named Paul Valentine skips around the stage singing "My Fatal Charm." That this number and Mr. Valentine do not have charm and, indeed, are almost loathsome is not a disaster. But Miss Irra Petina, the show's leading lady, is likewise unblessed. Along with her strong voice, Miss Petina projects a chill which seems to come right from the heart. Although even a Shirley Booth couldn't salvage On With the Show, Miss Petina estranges the audience just a bit further. Her co-star, Robert Wright, plays a Nevada banker...
...amours of a lively young oaf, the wrangles and tangles over getting Lizzie hitched-or when Lizzie herself mimics the wiles of the gals who know how to lasso men, the play has a brisk air and an engagingly humorous smack. And as Lizzie, Geraldine Page plays with charm and verve, and exhibits an unexpected comic gusto. It is popular stuff, and deservedly popular...