Word: charmers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Edward never appears in the play, which is probably wise as well as ingenious, for the play really scores as the whopping success story of a ruthless charmer who begins as a small shopkeeper faced with bankruptcy and winds up a potentate and peer of the realm. With bright humor and a sort of icy gaiety, Holt gambles, soft-soaps, bludgeons, picklocks his way out of scrapes and up the ladder. And the play's interest really lies much less in whom he does it for than in how he does it; the Edward role seems...
...Charmer's Charm. The Sheraton Corp. of America hotel chain's cocktail lounge "Service with Charm" (principal item: nylon-gowned waitresses picked for looks, height [5'6"] and underpinning) had worked like a charm, said New York General Manager Gilbert Johnson. It had more than doubled liquor sales in eleven hotels and will be extended to all the rest with lounges...
Born. To Moss Hart, 43, hit playwright (Lady in the Dark, Christopher Blake), and Kitty Carlisle, 35, popular musicomedy and cinema charmer of the '30s: their first child, a son; in Manhattan. Name: Christopher. Weight...
...snake charmer, the drum beater, and the man who operated a crude wooden Ferris wheel were there in full force, as they and their ancestors had been for more than a century. The entrance to the sylvan temple of Sipi was decorated with paper flowers, as it always...
...courtroom, the case of the fatal charmer Neville George Clevely Heath was handled with typical British dispatch. He was tried, convicted and sentenced to hang, all within three days. Now the British press could set up a-long-suppressed howl...