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...magazine of popular psychology, has an article in its March issue on "Ideal Mates," which matches couples with opposing characteristics. President Conant is paired as being ideally suited to Elsa Maxwell. The magazine says that "the couples selected . . . are to the best of our knowledge, complete and utter strangers to each other...
...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...
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...