Word: charming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Miss Young holds up well amid the efforts of a mediocre cast and achieves a convincing and exciting performance. A touch of gentle charm is contributed by the winsome antics of a nightgown-garbed female Innatic...
...with his Ministers at Buckingham Palace (see p. 23) and Edward of Wales emulated his grandsire Edward VII by having Premier Pierre Laval to luncheon on the crisis at Britain's Paris Embassy. Necessarily President Albert Lebrun then had H. R. H. to luncheon and the persuasive charm of Britain's "Empire Salesman" was fresh in the mind of the President of France when he summoned the French Cabinet to hear Premier Laval expose the policy he would pursue next day in the Council of the League of Nations...
...beat. In the course of beating it he reduces his office staff to hysteria, seduces his virginal leading lady, cuckolds his deserving brother-in-law, demoralizes his amiable wife (Mary Philips). Faber manages to commit all this emotional mayhem with unbounded arrogance, callousness and a certain amount of charm which is conveyed by witty sayings and an engaging incompetence when wrestling with a trick duffel bag. The audience is likely to take Faber's victims at just about Faber's low and careless appraisal, an effect which Authors Kaghan & Philips probably do not intend...
...cast, assembled with care and sound judgment, offers a large number of excellent negro talcuts. Credit must especially be given to Todd Dunean for a magnificent performance as Porgy, to Anne Wiggins Brown who played Bess, to John Bubbles who gave the full sum of his effervescent charm to the role of Sportin' Life, and to Warren Coleman as Crown...
...return to the local boards in the Friday opening of "Post Road", the Wilbur Steele-Norma Mitchell comic mystery which enjoyed a seven months New York run last season. First night attention centered largely on Miss Young's performance which was invested with a good amount of her gracious charm and gentle humor...