Word: eyeing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Circus Horse. Sharp at 8:45 p.m., his shoe-button eyes twinkling and his walrus mustache abristle, Monteux bounced in the front door. He dodged around a full-sized replica of a cable car, wheeled down the main aisle between two rows of beaming debutantes. The San Francisco Chronicle's Critic Alfred Frankenstein reported he "marched embar-rassedly." Said wife Doris Monteux, 54, who does most of Pierre's talking: "Embarrassedly, my eye . . . He's just like an old circus horse. He's awfully sophisticated, but awfully innocent...
Says wife Doris: "It amuses Pierre to see younger conductors eye him appraisingly, saying to themselves, 'When is that old bozo going to give up?' But, he says, 'I shall conduct till I'm 90. I shall die holding a baton.' " Says Pierre: "I didn't say 90. I said...
Died. Jack Kapp, 47, president and founder (1934) of Decca Records, Inc.; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Manhattan. Kapp combined a shrewd eye for business (Decca was the first to make 35? records on a large scale) with a sharp ear for talent (he signed Bing Crosby, the Mills Brothers, Al Jolson, the Dorseys), to boom Decca, by 1946, into a $30 million-a-year business...
Idol has many achievements to its credit: handsome, visually exciting sets, carefully pitched performances by Richardson and Michele Morgan, and assorted humorous bits of British character acting. But its outstanding achievement is Director Reed's handling of Bobby Henrey. To establish the child's-eye view of the story, he has turned his cameras loose in Felipe's own waist-high world, bounded by embassy balustrades and the butler's well-creased pants. To sharpen the effect, the sound track, like a child's half-focused attention, sometimes catches only half the adult talk...
Director Reed also does well with his interpretation of the physical Bobby Henrey. For once, a child movie actor is made to act with all the awkward, sham-Dling, sleepwalking unawareness that normal children have when they are not caught in the glare of klieglights or an adult eye. The result is a subtle, absorbing drama of natural child behavior. A brilliant tour de force as entertainment, Idol could also be a useful object lesson on how to restore he Hollywood child to childhood...