Word: charming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...music the power to charm women radio listeners away from their addiction to soap operas? NBC's supersales-minded President Niles Trammell thinks that maybe it has. This week he began gambling $10,000 a week - a record outlay for an unsponsored daytime network show -to put Fred Waring's orchestra on the fiercely competitive morning air (Mon.-Fri., 11-11:30, E.W.T.). To give the Waring broadcast every break against such popular rivals as Tom Breneman's burbling Breakfast in Hollywood (Blue, 11 a.m., E.W.T.), 137 NBC stations cleared time - even to dropping local commercial programs...
...pace, bodily movement that should go with a musical. Chained to one set, it does not even-except except for a lively Antony Tudor ballet - rattle its chains with dancing. The show boils down, in the end, to some smart lyrics, snappy lines, Victor Moore's mis cast charm, Shirley Booth's comic poise, Annamary Dickey's singing, Viola Essen's dancing - and Sullivan's delightful but rather dry-docked score...
Thrill of a Romance (M.G.M.), which is a gently feeble-minded title, suits the action to the words. The main thrill for bobby-soxers and stylish stouts is rosy Van Johnson, a sort of air-conditioned Charles Ray, whose boyish charm is honest and home-cooked enough to keep the men in the audience reasonably fair-minded while the women wallow. The main thrill for the pants-&-Paris-garter trade is Esther Williams ; she has the kind of body-displayed in a protean series of bathing suits-which you may dream of but aren't inclined to talk about...
...Roosevelt. For more than eight years it has been my privilege and honor to be Rector of "The President's Church" in Washington (St. Thomas'), where I have come to know him and to appreciate his sterling qualities as a man with a genius for friendship, a charm of personality, ideals of true democracy, world vision, an underlying religious spirit and a surprising knowledge of the Bible. . . . HOWARD S. WILKINSON Rector...
When a motion picture features the unbridled individuality of Jimmy Durante, the uncontested childhood charm of Margaret O'Brien, and artistry on the piano by Jose Iturbi, it becomes quite easy to overlook accompanying faults. "Music for Millions" may be somewhat wearing in its trite two-hour tug at wartime heart strings, but it is well stocked with talent that comes to the rescue during emotionally topheavy moments...