Word: charms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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FRENCH FOLK SONGS FOR CHILDREN (Sung by Louis Chartier with accompaniment; Decca). Album of three records, 13 songs. Musical charm plus educative value...
Givers of gratuitous advice are usually not very popular. If they give it to young, ambitious girls, they encounter another difficulty: they seem either presumptuous, as if doubtful of the talents, charm and intelligence of the girls they are advising, or sentimental in assuming that modern girls do not know what it is all about. In Listen Little Girl Munro Leaf, 32-year-old author of Ferdinand (bestselling children's book), avoids these hazards by dismissing moral and emotional considerations at the outset, tells his girls what they can expect to find in Manhattan in the way of jobs...
...quotations easier to distort. In brief the policy boils down to a sliding scale of personality and brains, with more being demanded of the one as the quality of the other declines. Thus the genius can come to Harvard however repulsive he is, the moron only when his charm is truly dazzling. A more democratic policy would be difficult to find, and until one is discovered the present system should be continued...
...Traviata," and combining jazz and the ballet in preposterous fashion, it dwarfs everything previously produced in lavish magnificence and collossal stupidity. Including almost everything except a ballet dance by Charlie McCarthy, its biggest virtue is the absence of endless rows of chorus girls; and only the quiet charm of the leading lady (Miss Leeds) and the all-too-few scenes with Bergen's "animated clothespin" save this tremendous hodge-podge from utter failure...
...widow Thomas is an extremely loquacious, scatter-brained person, who, is develops, is meant to be irresistibly attractive in a plump, helpless, middle-aged way. Her charm is unfortunately obscured, with the result that a perfectly honest suitor, a sinister looking Italian who deals in rugs, is mistaken in the first act by most of the audience for a crafty villain with some base design to his wooing. He subsequently appears, however, for no worse end than to supply the impoverished family with some sorely needed cash at the opportune moment. This change of face is not intended...