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...comedy of "Lady In Waiting" has far less to do with Margery Sharp than with Miss George for its author deals in situations rather than barbed lines. And it is these situations where Gladys George takes over and makes us eat out of her hand. She can be coy and bawdy in one breath, charming and hussyish in another, and yet beneath it all she breathes an enticing exuberance and unaffectedness that attracts the dignified and wealthy Sir William Warring...
...Esquire. The locker-room delight of the defiantly A. W. 0. L., white-collar U. S. male, Esquire has made itself the house organ of all brands of U. S. adolescence, its most interesting single product drawings of cellophane-glossed girls by George Petty. Despite its coy title. The Bedside Esquire contains no art-teasers; it is solid print. Among the 77 items: stories or articles, mainly second-rate, by the late D. H. Lawrence and Thome Smith, by John Dos Passes, Erskine Caldwell, Theodore Dreiser, John Steinbeck, Westbrook Pegler; The Snows of Kilimanjaro, one of the most ambitious...
Flattering, if coy, is Foreigner Fabrès' reason for visiting the U. S. Says...
...this has been transformed by the magic eye of the camera and the Hollywood touch. As a film, The Primrose Path has become a problem picture with false notes from Steinbeck. Grandma (Queenie Vassar) still likes it carnal, is still a coy and bawdy frump, still gets...
...Miss Sheridan is coy. Apparently she loves only the Lampoon. For she is content to sit out on the West Coast, surrounded by still cameras, and beckon to the Poon boys to come out and learn some oomph. This is rank injustice to the rest of the college. Since apparently only she holds the key to money-making success, since most Harvard alumni are reputedly oomphless share croppers and Fuller-brush men, Miss Sheridan is needed at college to raise a new generation of oomphy grads...