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...melt the heart of a gun dog." At the moment, she is starring in the London production of Jean Kerr's Mary, Mary, and, as another critic summarized the reaction of all, "the night belongs to Miss Smith-laconic and nervous, superb in comedy, touching in pathos, a gem of an actress, a dish...
Here's Love is a delight in every way. Meredith Willson has given us another gem, chock-full of all the gaiety, excellent performances, good dancing, music, etc. needed to guarantee theatergoers a perfect afternoon or evening of the finest entertainment...
Thereafter, on a predictable split-second schedule, practically everything goes wrong. At the climax, Old Wave Director Henri Verneuil achieves a scene that is a gem of understatement. Plopped down at poolside like a bull walrus minus his tusks and a billion clams, Veteran Actor Gabin blinks goodbye to his ill-gotten gains, filling the moment with memorable stupefaction. Best side bets of Any Number Can Win are glimpses of the human flotsam and jetsam beached on the Riviera, but all in all it is a cinematic gamble that never quite pays...
Your Oct. 11 fashion story is a gem of obfuscated hindsight. Formfit and Emilio Pucci fired the first unembarrassed shot in the war against the monobuttock with the introduction of the natural-back "Viva" panty girdle in 1957. We have not done any "feeling," crawling or walking toward "falsiefication" since that time...
...congratulations to the author of that fashion note "Curving the Curple" on his near creation of a literary gem on a subject that under prosaic treatment would have been something worse than gauche...