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This corrupt version of a well known jingle applies particularly well to Clifford Odets' new play, The Flowering Peach. Whenever Odets is naughty or cute, whether to shock or titillate the audience, he wins laughs or gasps of admiration. But when he sticks to his calling as that rare theatrical type--a thoughtful craftsman--he achieves mature drama...
...Thebom, and she was a looker. The other was not so young, but she certainly could sing. Her name was Zinka Milanov. The young man liked it best in the third scene, where the Egyptians staged a big show with dancing girls. From where he sat, they looked mighty cute and not overdressed, but there were no bumps or grinds. He never did find out whether the boy got one of the girls, but things didn't look too good for him when the final curtain fell...
...minutes alone with her. She said okay and then scampered off to the piano and sang a song which she insisted we all sing with her. We all sang dum-de-dum like we do in the Stadium, and she danced around while we sang. She's awfully cute...
...There must be many an intellectual, avid newspaper reader-even editor -who finds himself reading regularly the survey offered him by magazines, although the dateline may be three to seven days behind his own morning paper-not so much for the additional informative items, or the 'cute' pattern in which the facts are laid, but for the perspective in the properly arranged facts . . . It is the messenger in the Greek tragedy who always gives a better commentary of the battle than the hero or his arms-bearer who shout bits of information around during the encounter. The newspaper...
...Hendricks, who has a moustache, has brought in his Hollywood move dogs, three German shepherds, a poodle, and a wire-haired terrier. They all do various tricks like jumping on a moving horse and playing skip rope together. This is comic relief and the dogs are talented and very cute. The Valkyries, three cowgirls, do a Roman Jumping Act on five or six white horses, and then, after the calf-roping contest, it is time for The range Rider (Jack Mahoney) and his Saddle Pal (Dick West...