Word: feys
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Traveling minstrels sang Chief Tristan's praises so plausibly that his legend was adopted by the Welsh, who spiced it up with some fey lore and turned it over to the Irish. Irish harpists remodeled Tristan along the general lines of a fighting Irishman and changed his princess into a pretty colleen. The Vikings got wind of the story and decided that so beautiful a woman must, of course, have had golden hair...
Moreover, the picture is a Thespian witches' Sabbath. Except when she overuses her eyes in fey moments, Jennifer Jones more than delivers on the promise of her Song of Bernadette. Restrained Joseph Gotten gives the film its needed ballast of sanity. Hilt-deep supporting performances are contributed by Gladys Cooper, Cecil Kellaway, and a brilliant Australian named Ann Richards. She has three-alarm beauty and four-alarm talent, and is the only screen actress since Ingrid Bergman to look wonderful in a shirtwaist...
...Half fey, half folksy, the play is based on the Southern mountaineer (not the Old English) ballad of Barbara Allen. For love of high-stepping young Barbara (Carol Stone), a witch boy in the Great Smokies (Richard Hart) has a Conjur Woman make him human. But he can remain so, the old crone tells him, only if Barbara stays faithful to him for a year after their marriage. On the last night of the year, the community,* at last awake to the boy's origin, compels Barbara to sin. (A rape scene that the censors knocked...
...program came an excited call from a woman in Forest Hills, N.Y. She wanted to know if it was a three-year-old question submitted by David Fey, her son, now Corporal David Fey, in a rest camp after three years' action in the South Pacific...
...most quietly fey and edgy comic strips in the U.S. this week made its second appearance in book form. Barnaby and Mr. O'Malley (Holt; $2) is a 328-page collection of the bland fantasies of 38-year-old Crockett Johnson. Johnson's unorthodox strip first appeared two years ago in New York City's tabloid PM, now draws a host of addicts in 31 U.S. newspapers, including the Baltimore Evening Sun, Philadelphia Record, Chicago Sun, St. Louis Star-Times...