Word: gamins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kathryn Humphreys as Helen also offers a few surprises. Her beauty is gamin rather than statuesque, and she plays Helen as if she had just stepped out of "Born Yesterday." Unfortunately, however, the lines do not always fit the Judy Holiday-dumb blonde stereotype. As a result the meaning of the lines is occasionally lost together with some of the story's coherence...
Colored Wigs. Wackiest novelty since Hula Hoops is a gamin-style wig of acetate yarn that comes in 17 shades, including blue, green, bright red, and purple. Manufactured by David & David of Brooklyn, now selling 4,000 a day, the wig can be styled further by the owner. Price...
...snow was replaced, and two German sleds made slow, comfortable runs to finish in first and second place for the four-man title. Unchastened Eugenio Monti sneered at the four-run time total of 4:49.33 and announced: "All I wanted was a fast run." Then, as a Garmisch gamin pranced behind him in an elaborate pantomime of shoveling, he added: "This is the last time I will race here...
...have her own show opening this spring. She has just finished a movie in which she stars and for which she wrote the music. Last week between recording dates she was learning English, for in June she will follow her records to the U.S. and try out her calculated gamin style in Manhattan...
After the fashion of pageants, Christophe Colomb-particularly for those a little deficient in French-had its oratorical longueurs, its narrative doldrums. In Actor Barrault it had a Columbus more gamin than heroic. But Director Barrault proved an accomplished showman, and here and there-as in two wittily etched court scenes-a brilliant one. And with Darius Milhaud's lovely music-now pertly dancelike, now swelling or exalted-Christophe Colomb proved an uneven but curiously memorable occasion...