Word: genteelism
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...physical characteristics similar to those of Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Tyrone Power, Errol Flynn, etc." and for similar feminine paragons, Gateway to Hollywood got 40,000 applicants, 8,000 of whom were auditioned in 23 U. S. cities. "John Archer" is Ralph Bowman of Lincoln, Neb., 24, in looks a genteel replica of Max Baer. "Alice Eden" is Rowena Cook, 20, of New York City. Both winners received long-term contracts...
...LaBarre's conclusion: "Such repression is merely the price which our culture must pay to support its genteel social externals...
...World's Fair tripper, taking art on the run, could hardly ask for anything more panoramic. Ranging from tame portraits of young girls to woozy, crawling abstractions, from genteel sculptures in baby-blue plaster to great blocks of stone, from Christmas-cardy woodcuts to elusive black-and-whites, the show represents all trends, tastes, techniques. A few exhibits, with their wavering lines, naïve perspectives, jumbled colors, may invite perplexed comparison with little Hilda's fourth-grade drawings. But there is not enough surrealism to bite beholders. Many things in the exhibition treat in some...
...heels of Swingster Benny Goodman, who had just finished another genteel Carnegie Hall venture (TIME, Jan. 23), trod last week another classically-minded swingster. At a concert by Manhattan's year-old Bach Circle, Negro Swing-Pianist Teddy Wilson delicately pecked an 18th-Century harpsichord. Playing Bach's Concerto in C Minor for Two Harpsichords and Strings with Harpsichordist Yella Pessl for a partner, Harpsichordist Wilson forgot all about his pedals, stomped out Bach's rhythm with one foot...
...English surround their country houses with high hedges, for privacy. But in the theatre, English country houses are always ostentatiously on display. Dear Octopus provides the latest sentimental exhibit, peopling the manorial hall with one of those varied but unvarying families who know what Britannia-and the more genteel theatre public-expect of them. Every item in the ritual is carefully observed...