Word: girlish
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Hedda Hopper's hat contest was a crowning success. For five weeks, on Tom Breneman's Breakfast in Hollywood (ABC, Mon.-Fri.,11 a.m., E.S.T.), heady Hedda asked for amateur hat designs, soon had 65,000 entries on hand. This week, with the same girlish glee with which she writes her Hollywood gossip column, Hedda announced the 103 win ners...
...Caldecott's wit. Most illustrators were more inclined to envy Caldecott's sure sense of movement, which set a new standard for fast action on paper. His books (John Gilpin's Ride, Three Jovial Huntsmen, etc.) were as boyish and gay as Greenaway's were girlish and sweet...
June Ally son, pregnant and playing bull-fiddle in a war-shot orchestra led by Jose Iturbi, hasn't heard from her husband in the South Pacific for months. The other girlish in the orchestra (that old backstage rut) intercept a telegram from the War department and fake a letter from the husband to the mother-to-be. It's all a bit irreverent...
...talent lies in art.) She has well in mind, before she starts, what each star can wear: "Bergman is something so beautiful you must play it down. You cannot overpower Ingrid with clothes." "Make Fontaine smart, feminine and refined." "Keep Shirley looking sweet sixteen with soft hair, pigtails and girlish pinafores...
...exquisite performance within her vocal limitations, and considering the way she looks, not many are going to quibble about a few notes here and there." Said the Sun's learned Felix Borowski: "The singer has the small, almost the adolescent voice, which gave her vocalism the girlish timbre at least, which some other Juliets of operatic history-most of them fair, fat and forty-generally have lacked...