Word: fashioner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Musicomedienne Gray can line-drive a song to the exits, Merman-fashion, but her Frenchy never travels more than one block west of Broadway. Griffith's Destry is immensely likable but far too much the Arkansas traveler to suggest any purpose deeper than palaver. Everyone works hard to prove that everything, except the performance, is a joke. But Destry Rides Again only for the gold in them thar box-office tills...
Without a consistently dazzling and imaginative technique, Beardsley's drawings take on an unpleasantly decadent tinge. The super-sophisticated subject matter is not elevated or illuminated by the artist's compassion. Beardsley, one feels, did not really care about most of his work, most notably his slick "fashion ad" drawings for the Yellow Book. He drew the stylish and stylized images well, brilliantly often, but left them lifeless and hollow...
...when I read about that increasingly famous institution, the Hingham town dump, an out-of-door cracker barrel where you meet your friends and neighbors of a Sunday [March 30]. Our youngest son, at the age of four, used to ask every out-of-town guest in true booster fashion, "Have you seen the dump...
...show must admit kinship to Kukla, Fran and Ollie and Walt Disney, it is still the healthiest baby in the TV nursery. Brigid Bazlen claims no professional antecedents at all. Daughter of Chicago Fashion Commentator Maggie Daly Bazlen (Brigid's father is dead), she began at the age of ten with a part in an ABC network soaper called Hawkins Falls, lasted 2½ years before she was tapped for Puppeteer Nellé's show. A miracle of poise on camera, the Blue Fairy is still a refreshingly down-to-earth teen-ager offstage. Celebrating the Peabody with...
...tone row) announced softly by the low strings pizzicato to the accompaniment of saucy raps on the snare drum. But in the middle section--a sort of languourous waltz--the sense of direction is lost and the piece begins to maunder. The final movement was transmitted in rather hazy fashion by the unsure playing of the orchestra, but it seemed much the same sort of thing. Mr. Stewart's material seems promising; had he not spread it so thin the Variations might have been stronger. His orchestration, at any rate, showed considerable imagination...