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...mooning about the veranda of his columned home while trying to make up his mind between a daughter of the Old South and a Northern hussy. On Robert Montgomery Presents, Paul McGrath played a Yankee who couldn't choose between his ever-loving wife and a Central European charmer, while CBS began the run of a new series, Climax, with an examination of the manners and morals (both terrible) of Southern California. The Climax play was based on Raymond Chandler's The Long Goodbye, and starred Teresa Wright and Dick Powell who played the tough private...
Cropped Head. It was a good show, mostly because of the singable Rodgers music. Mary Martin was an effortless charmer as mistress of ceremonies, actress singer, dancer and keynoter ("What is the magic, what is the source of the secret . . . that sets Rodgers and Hammerstein apart from the others?") Mary, who had just closed the Broadway run of Kind Sir, cropped her hair again to sing her best-known South Pacific songs-I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outa My Hair, Some Enchanted Evening (with Ezio Pinza), and I'm in Love with a Wonderful Guy. John...
...CinemaScope, New Faces is anything but small. Pint-sized (5 ft. i in.) Robert Clary looms over the customers like King Kong with a French accent. And minor skits like Snake Charmer (on his daily round of the downtown office buildings), which tickled theatergoers to laughter, deliver a hard bang on the moviegoer's funny bone...
...When high-spirited Juscelino ran for office three years ago, he wooed the isolated backland voters with hillbilly songs (How can a fish live out of water? How can I live without you?) and dazzling promises of roads and electricity. Unlike many another Brazilian political charmer, Juscelino is making his campaign oratory come true. His slogan: "What I start I finish...
...Charmer from Yorkshire. Brothers starts with Renny Whiteoak, master of Jalna, firmly in his seat, or rather his saddle, because Renny is the type of man who only gets off his horse when he is watching a horse show. Uncles Ernest and Nicholas are still getting aged and shaky; Grandma Adeline (who died some books ago) is lively as a cricket at the age of 98. Brothers Eden (22), Piers (19), Finch (15), Wakefield (8) are still in the process of growing into the well-known adults they have long since become : their habits of twisting each other...