Word: charm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Zither (Ruth Welcome; Cook). Zitherist Welcome captures some of the faded charm of Old Vienna (even in Greensleeves and September Song) and the recording captures some of the sweetest sounds on disks...
...Bogart at his favorite attitude of tight-lipped heroism, To Have And Have Not is at a near-peak of movie making. Its sometimes loose construction and frequent mawkish patriotism make it the more enjoyable as tiny imperfections in beloved people and objects only add to their charm. Hemingway's mediocre novel has been screened several times, but this is the best. ROBERT J. SCHOENBURG
Despite these slight flaws, King Arthur offers tonight and tomorrow night into the same charm Downes found...
Written with eloquent precocity by a twelve-year-old Mozart, this one-act masterpiece is packed with charm and freshness. Its story of lovers' jealousy, scheming and reunion is spiritedly sung, and Soprano Hollweg is brilliant...
...Shirley Booth may not be to musicomedy what Ethel Merman or Mary Martin is, but she is one of the wonders of show business. Her personal warmth almost seems to constitute (or render superfluous) a style of acting: her Lottie Gibson seems a triumph of little more than charm, bad grammar and a sort of rented singing voice. But quite equal to her natural appeal is her brilliantly unobtrusive, indirect-lighted showmanship...