Word: charming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What young (32) Carl Zeidler, son of a barber, lacked in experience he made up in personal charm. Tall, handsome, with wavy blond hair, he had attended Marquette University, where he ran the half-mile, debated, orated, sang and studied law, was voted "most likely to succeed." He made a point of joining dozens of fraternal and civic organizations, including the Y. M. C. A., where he kept in trim swimming up & down the pool. At meetings, which he diligently attended, he could always be counted upon to make a speech, or sing a song in his rich baritone. Said...
Even sadder: this is probably Shirley Temple's last picture. Our hearts are touched. For Shirley acted, sang, and danced well, and didn't deserve to have her Templian charm stifled in an uninspired million-dollar quagmire. In spite of a double-crossing producer, we wish her a happy future, when, like Deanna, we will see her kissed for the very first time...
...play. Dramatized by Margery Sharp from her own novel, The Nutmeg Tree, Lady in Waiting is like a party that starts off gaily, then turns into something where the cocktails weren't mixed right and the guests won't mix at all-leaving nothing but the charm and high spirits of the hostess to save...
...puppet-actors, it proves too elaborate. A puppet Cinderella needs more than a fairy godmother's wand to make it come alive. All the Johann Strauss music in the world cannot make puppets waltz with Alt Wien charm. When they imitate human beings, they come to grief...
Compared to the Piccoli's mechanical perfection, a puppet Pinocchio which also opened on Broadway last week merely strings along. But as a children's show (which the Piccoli primarily is not) it has its own naive, storybook charm. Unlike the Walt Disney cinema, it does not play ducks & drakes with the Collodi story...