Word: coy
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Transplanting a show from Broadway to Hollywood involves something more than railway fare. Somewhere in transit "The Voice of the Turtle" acquired new scenes, more people, and a coy chastity. What was once a one-set, three-character production now boasts Wayne Marris, as many extras as the next epic, and intimate glimpses of New York ranging from a corner grocery store to the Pennsylvania Hotel...
...wife all the intimate details of their last 24 hours together. It is dreadfully sincere-and dreadfully embarrassing. By writing the story in the first person singular, Monsarrat deprives himself of whatever ironic distance he might otherwise have been able to establish and identifies himself with all the coy, callow and cuddly sentimentalities with which his hero's letter drips. Leave Cancelled leaves the uncomfortable feeling that someone's privacy has been violated...
...hypocrisy behind commercialism in modern government and behind sexual morality is hit hard in this work about a utopian isle that tries to become anglicized. The king sends his daughters to be schooled in England, and they return paragons of virtue, "Extremely modest (so we're told), Demurely coy--divinely cold." They bring with them six "flowers of progress," Englishmen representing their country's rise to perfection, and including a company promoter and a county council member. The plot is simpler than that of any other Savoy opera, and since the attacked hypocrisy is still present, the work...
...Appointed Wayne Coy, Washington radioman and onetime assistant to Franklin Roosevelt, to be chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, succeeding Charles R. Denny, resigned; and upped George E. Sterling, FCC's chief engineer, to be a commissioner, succeeding Ewell K. Jett, resigned...
...more baroque appeal-one scarcely, however, so recognizably Venetian, American, or, to name the spade, anything. Briefly, the movie niece (Susan Hayward) is young, has led a void life caring for the old lady (Agnes Moorehead), has compensated by poring over the poet's letters, has conceived a coy necrophilia for him. By day she is the cold spinster, by night ah! with her kitten and her finch and that sill ver oubliette which holds the letters (sweet counterfeits of passion!), she is indeed a very Mab of love. The publishing fellow (Robert Cummings), sniffing out the letters, blunders...