Word: charms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with fellow artists who have to make a living with paint. But occasionally some art lover manages to talk him into a sale. He chortles: "If any damn fool wants to pay $500, all right!" Because the art world has not yet crowed much over the effusive, highly personal charm of his work, his exhibitions have been few. For this lack, Surgeon Souchon makes up by holding private showings himself in the mahogany-brown library of his office suite...
...novelist, he must be credited with one novelty: he endows his heroine with boyish rather than feminine charms. That was the fashion in early post-war novels, but faded during the Long Armistice. Author Carmer, who uses not one but two boy-bodied women, may be starting a new phase in the cycle of charm...
Sunny River (book & lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II; music by Sigmund Romberg; produced by Max Gordon) attempts to revive big-scale, full-throated operetta without knowing how. It seizes on the cobwebs of the oldtime musical instead of the charm. Its lush, long-winded plot, its stilted dialogue, its leering humor have everybody's nostalgia in full retreat before the evening is half over. A tale of New Orleans around 1810, Sunny River tells of the rivalry between a cafe singer (Muriel Angelus) and a society belle (Helen Claire) for a dashing young Creole lawyer (Bob Laurence), runs...
...picture of NBC as a human phenomenon would be framed by its Radio City home-with a slablike, grand exterior and an interior like a rabbit warren. The characters would include hundreds of cool whee-eeking charm, technicians, not-so-cool directors, musicians, nervous clockwatchers and imperturbable stenographers, "vice presidents" of notorious number. It would include hopeful actors, agency men, press agents, uniformed guards and guides and endless parties of shuffling visitor...
Although it is as dramatically incoherent as life itself, How Green is a radiant idyll of the dignity and charm of honest, simple working people. Well acted by a competent, unstarred cast, the picture is a credit to Director Ford, who is himself a big, rumpled, modest Celt (Irish) with a tidy mind, rock-ribbed integrity and a talent for turning out superb pictures (The Informer, Arrowsmith, Grapes of Wrath, Stagecoach). It is also his last picture-for the present. He is now on active duty with the U.S. Navy...