Word: cigars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Scent oj Mystery, a smellodrama scheduled for release next month. *Developed by Rhodia, Inc., a leading U.S. manufacturer of industrial perfumes. Among Rhodia's products: pine scent for knotty-pine-patterned wallpaper, leather smell for plastic briefcases, new-car odor for used cars, tobacco smell for cigar boxes, Strawberry scent for embalming fluid...
...platform, a naturally theatrical personality. The period through which he moves (about 1916 to 1933) has a persistently gaudy glamour. And out of a dynamic human being and a razzle-dazzle era has come an uneven but lively and enjoyable musical, rewardingly filled with tobacco juice and cigar smoke, rewardingly lacking in tinsel and frills...
...Will Varner, an old, ugly, rednecked, cigar-chomping, big daddy, who likes life too much to bother dying, Orson Welles is the quality part of an only fair production. Welles is Welles, and one is willing to sit through the film two or three times, just to hear him talk like an inebriated bullfrog and act like a bulldog in heat...
Particularly effective is Holbrook's timing. He takes time out to light a fresh cigar, flick some ashes off, or just blow smoke into the air--and often takes this time off just before the punch line of a story, a pause that makes the tag all the funnier. And, after the first punch line, Holbrook often takes a second puff or so, followed by another line, inciting a fresh burst of laughter...
...sees of Twain these days. He even talks and walks like one would expect Twain to walk and talk, and produces a very convincing portrayal of a vigorous old man. He acts some stories out, wanders from rostrum to table to chair and back again, puffs leisurely on a cigar, and generally presents an animated and engrossing performance, despite the fact that Holbrook is the only person on stage all through the two and a half hour program...