Word: elsas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...puckish without losing his heartiness. He delights in his own dirty-pants-and-sneakers shagginess. For sonority, he has speeches about snow in England and about understanding natives. To show contentedness he smiles abstractedly at his empty beer glass. Eventually he is domesticated by a painfully sincere missionary (Elsa Lancaster), but by then the fun is over. An incredibly clever dog unlisted in the credits gives a superb performance...
...Frenchie" has most of the makings of an excellent shoot-'em-up Western: a good cast (Joel McCrea, Shelley Winters, Paul Kelly, Elsa Lancaster), fine Technicolor photography, and appropriate background music which is played whenever somebody rides in or out of town. But the picture appears to move slowly since there are no real chases and only one gun duel...
...tested her routine first in Montreal, then in Boston. Says warmly homely Elsa: "Boston was puzzled by anyone who even looks like me." Variety's Boston correspondent reported that her routine was "weighted down with too much sameness of material." There was no reason for it to be. Since her teen-age days in a Soho supper club (where she sang a song that begins, "Chase me, Charley, over the barley, I've lost the leg of my drawers"), she had picked up plenty of material. Among other things, Elsa, onetime student of Isadora Duncan, confesses that...
Last week sophisticated Persian Roomers, used to such glamorines as Hildegarde, were finding Elsa a little on the puzzling side. Following a polished dance team, she came coyly onstage looking, as she calls it, a little "tatty" in an artfully simple dress, her red curls all over her head. Her first song, about a blooming romance in a laundromat, was delivered in a saucy, off-key voice something like a boy soprano's. Then Elsa climbed on top of the grand piano to pitch a mildly off-color number called The Janitor's Boy. The audience liked some...
...Elsa just wasn't the type for that, but she had a lot of material to draw on, including, if necessary, Chase Me, Charley...