Word: charming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years, The Show-Off is still a surprisingly good play, albeit a psychologically dated one; today's audience must suspend its natural inclination to see Aubrey Piper as a sick man rather than merely an irritating dreamer. But Miss Hayes bounces things along with such verve and charm that Dr. Freud is not likely to be missed...
...Warner Bros. To Jack Warner, 75, who liked to make his own pick of the rushes, everything but salami should be cut in the studio. More problems were to follow-arguments about sound, music, casting, script, going on location in Texas. To solve them, Beatty poured on the charm and indulged in some mock histrionics...
This is a novel that anyone who was in Austria during the war or just after it could have jotted down from ordinary conversation and observation. It captures the slow fading of Austria's old escapist, professional charm before Nazi reality. It details the deportations, the mean spying for the Nazis by willing people of all classes, the fear of speaking openly, the people carted off for no known reason. Through the use of rather contrived plot coincidences, Author Gainham keeps her selected characters in view at all times, or at least until the SS and finally the Russians...
There is no pleasure to be had in reciting the specifics, and no need either, as they are all too manifest. The idea of a great society has turned from something noble to something that somehow disappoints, and without even the dignity to cease trying to charm. The Negro revolution, once the very embodiment of our dignity and pride, has somehow fallen into the bonds of what the President has rightly called vulgar men, half educated in their utterances, and wholly sincere only in their destructiveness. Worst of all, the great dream of internationalism, the splendid succession of noble deeds...
Jacqueline Meily contributes such a measure of charm to the role of Lady Jane that one almost does not notice Gilbert's celebrated libel on old womandom. In this she is aided by composer Sullivan, who manages a special, though for him certainly not unique, lyricism when she performs. Sharon Dennis, Carolyn Firth, and Juliet Cunningham are all excellent as Rapturous Maidens, displaying a sense of ensemble which has thus far eluded a good many professional companies. The officers of the dragoon guards likewise observe each other on stage. Theirs is the comedy of loud plainmindedness, of just enough mugging...