Word: elinore
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have already torn up several pages of opening paragraphs for this review because they sounded like press releases, and have also firmly dismissed one effort which assaulted Elinor Hughes in immoderate language for remaining unruffled in the face of this movie. I must get a grip on myself...
...Anybody Seen My Gal is set in what is referred to as the Roaring Twenties, an era when, to judge from this picture, flappers in short skirts and college men in raccoon coats did little else but pour down bathtub gin, read Elinor Glyn's It, dance the Charleston, and indulge in such bon mots as "hot diggity," "the cat's meow" and "skiddoo." The result is a thoroughly lightweight but agreeably lighthearted little taffy pull in Technicolor. Surrounding Multimillionaire Coburn are a number of pleasant young people, including Piper Laurie, Rock Hudson, Gigi Perreau and an enthusiastic...
...Engaged! She's Lovely! She Uses Pond's!" Miss Elinor Warren, 25, of Norwalk, Conn., is, as the ads say, lovely (see cut). She uses Pond's Cold Cream. And she was engaged. But two months ago, Miss Warren and her fiance, John Troy Small, decided to call...
...veteran, had the lead in the second play, A Long Goodbye, and he was excellent by any standard. He was a character of despair, and through his careful, subdued delivery he set the mood of the play. Cyres Del Vecchio was especially impressive in a supporting role and both Elinor Fuche and Barbara Falen were more than adequate as Kerr's sister and mother...
Russia and Communism were getting to be known quantities instead of bogeymen. Edward Crankshaw's Cracks in the Kremlin Wall expressed one expert's judgment that Russia is feebler than supposed. Other careful books exposed Communism in practice. Margarete Buber (Under Two Dictators), Elinor Lipper (Eleven Years in Soviet Prison Camps), Zbigniew Stypulkowski (Invitation to Moscow) and Gustav Herling (^4 World Apart) were all graduates of Soviet prisons, and wrote of their experiences with skill. The reissue of French Traveler Astolphe de Custine's book of a century ago, Journey for Our Time, reminded moderns that, then...