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...other hands "The Damask Check" might be coy and cute. It is not. It might be patronizing, heavy, and dull. It is not. It might be warn, humorous, graceful, and satisfying...
Married. Sally McAdoo, 22, granddaughter of the late William Gibbs McAdoo, President Wilson's wartime Secretary of the Treasury; and Naval Reserve Lieut, (j.g.) Peter Meldrim Coy, 22, son of the late great Yale fullback Edward Harris ("Ted") Coy (onetime husband of the late great Actress Jeanne Eagels); in Worthington Valley...
...much enthusiasm for modern art, particularly Disney's. But Disney is by all odds the most successful cinema educator to date. Says FORTUNE: "Previous educational movies, with such rare exceptions as the MARCH OF TIME and Pare Lorentz films, have been dull as dishwater and often embarrassingly coy in the bargain. Disney's are not only enlightening but exciting...
Strictly Instrumental (Harry James; Columbia). A persuasive, iterated phrase, and some neat jiving by the newest top-flight band, serve as background to Harry James's fluttering trumpet, as coy as Mickey Mouse...
...Husband, in which Katharine Hepburn made her first Broadway success a decade ago, By Jupiter makes smirking and off-color copy-which soon palls and sometimes offends-of Playwright Thompson's inverted world of ancient Amazons where the women are bold and rakish warriors and their menfolk coy and high-voiced homebodies. It winds up with a real War-Between-the-Sexes in which the invading Greeks make proper women of the Amazons by stealing the magic girdle that is the source of their strength...