Word: charms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cinemactress Peggy Cummins, who wears a four-leaf-clover charm, skidded on a highly polished floor, landed on the charm, cut her pretty hand...
Prokofiev: Summer Day Suite (Santa Monica Symphony, Jacques Rachmilovich conducting; Disc, 3 sides). Originally pieces for children, written for piano, this suite loses some of its charm in orchestration, even though it was the composer himself who orchestrated it. Performance: fair...
...melee, superbly hatted and slightly perspiring heads bobbed and nodded with visions of what lay ahead-the Continent of bad plumbing, charm, great ruins, inflation, cancan and the cutest little French restaurant just around the corner. There were some references to crisis and even war. "My dear," said a woman in dark sunglasses, "I do think you are brave...
...well might think that the old tale had been a trilogy. The show is incredibly poky and protracted; it just won't keep movin' along. Nor has it very much more of musicomedy's factitious lure than of the old Hudson River Valley's drowsy charm; only here & there is a lyric sprightly, or the dancing gay. As Ichabod, angular Gil Lamb is likable and pleasant, but by no means a tide-turner. Best thing about Sleepy Hollow is the singing, which does a lot for the next best thing-the songs...
...Fiorenza," said a Toronto Tory last week, "is the best thing that ever happened to George." She has an easy grace and charm; her husband is reserved: his enemies call him haughty. In a recent 4,000-mile campaign swing through the Lakehead and northern Ontario Mrs. Drew made scores of speeches on the same platform with the Premier. "I just stand up and chat," says Fiorenza. "I don't get into the issues of the election. I let George do that." She was a big success. Said one of her listeners: "A lot of people, if they...