Word: courtship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Topping their stage romance with a real-life courtship, Comedienne Judy Holliday and Leading Man Sydney Chaplin, stars of Broadway's Bells Are Ringing, last week took off for Europe to tell the good news to Sydney's famed father, Cinemime Charles Chaplin...
...skits considers an aspect of the French (and occasionally of the British) national character with the sort of inane intensity a small boy devotes to a wart. Items: French Suspiciousness, British Weather. The Cult of the Liver among Middle-Aged Frenchmen, The Function of the Horse in Anglo-Saxon Courtship Patterns. There is a marvelous visual essay on the ricochet principle in Gallic traffic, and the now-familiar comic scene in which a British mother gives her daughter some moral aspirin on her wedding night: "I know, my dear, it's disgusting. But . . . just close your eyes and think...
...continued on foot "along the Denver and Rio Grande,'' on to San Francisco. Mother Hogan was far from pleased to see the "tattered and penniless Frenchman." Nor could Belloc overcome Elodie's resistance (she wanted to be a nun) until five years of relentless courtship-by mail -persuaded her at last into happy marriage. Eighteen years later, when he was 43, his wife died. For the rest of his life he wore black broadcloth, and used black-edged writing paper...
...lies in the-only two teen-agers of eight survivors on a California hilltop. After bickering through childhood like brother and sister, the boy (John Kerr) and the girl (surprisingly well played by Piper Laurie) are pressed, balking and shying, into marriage. The wedding preparations and the reluctant, ingenuous courtship are imaginatively scripted. Sample...
...courtship of Hilda is punctuated by Casimir's sky-scanning Delphic queries: "Are the Life-Gods and the Fate-Gods willing?" Hilda is willing, and there is scarcely a dull moment spent with the count as he 1) sees his first roller-skating show wrecked by a storm, 2) witnesses a local bigwig being shot to death by a bordello madam, 3) two-times Hilda with a carnival doxy billed as ''Phazma the Phlame Girl." 4) has his second roller-skating show filched by a double-crossing partner, 5) goes back to the sea with visions...