Word: cupidities
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This puckered, puckish puss belongs to Cupid. Peering, leering out of your mailbox, his target for today...
...inability to change her facial expression by changing her costume as frequently as possible. Mature simply wiggles his ears, whether hanging by his hands from an iron bar twenty feet off the ground or watching singer Russell sulk beside a piano. Hoagy Carmichael looks stupid as a troubadour-hillbilly-cupid type, and Vincent Price looks just plain tired...
...stage act of perpetual youth for more than half a century outshone her stage fame; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Manhattan. Born in St. Louis during the Andrew Johnson (or Grant) administration, Fannie made her stage debut in 1890, got off to a fast start in the role of Cupid by accidentally winging an arrow into the leading man's eye. For the next 25 years, little (she tried to keep her weight at 100 Ibs.), blonde, lively Fannie appeared in shows in New York and London, gave more sensational performances riding up Fifth Avenue in a brougham clutching...
...Aicher, 48, his wife Elfriede, their daughters Frick, 23, and Gretl, 22, run the show with three assistants, design the puppets, costumes and sets for the 27-ft. stage. The dolls (adult size: 3-½ ft.) are more supple and lifelike than the popular U.S. or Howdy Doody brand; Cupid shoots arrows, musicians fiddle, puppet birds fly, angels flap their wings, flowers open, horses prance. Aicher & Co. synchronize action and gestures perfectly with tape-recorded music and dialogue...
...William Lundigan) who run off to get married and are pursued by two sets of indignant parents determined to stop them. Once thrown together, the girl's uppity parents and the boy's homespun folks take to each other so enthusiastically that they turn to playing Cupid when the youngsters bicker and part short of the altar...