Word: elfish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recorded three albums -French Art Songs and Songs by Debussy (Victor), Song Recital by Maggie Teyte (Gramophone Shop)-which spread her fame to the U.S. Now Maggie Teyte will see whether her studied musicianship will stand her in as good stead as once her pretty legs and elfish personality did. Says she: "There are many compensations in age . . . for serious music I can even let my hair down...
...comedy, I Love a Soldier suffers from a confusion of values, which is likely to outrage rather than amuse most moviegoers. Barry Fitzgerald contributes a brief but telling bit as a richly impertinent, elfish little cable-car gripman (conductor). But despite his efforts, this idyll of young love resembles not so much a spring freshet as a saucer of milk left to sour by an ungrateful...
...Disney won the honorary degree of Master of Arts from Harvard, with the citation: "A magicion who has created a modern dwelling for the Muses; his hand controls a multitude of elfish animals who charm all humans by their mirth...
...Elfish, slow-smoldering Stephen Vincent Benét wrote the program's "letters to Hitler" for six representative Americans: a farmer (Raymond Massey-"We'll choke you with wheat and corn, Adolf, we'll drown you in York State milk"), a mother (Helen Hayes-"I do not say it is just or right to hate. I say we hate you for having caused this hate"), a businessman (Melvyn Douglas-"You can't do business with a man who doesn't know the meaning of a contract"), a laborer (James Cagney-"We're sending...