Word: gorgeousity
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Astor (unsuspecting): Why yes. I remember especially because there was an absolutely gorgeous vintage that year. Madame Champlain was in ecstacies...
Astor (unsuspecting): Why yes. I remember especially because there was an absolutely gorgeous vintage that year. Madame Champlain was in ecstasies...
...gaiety of I Whistle a Happy Tune, the lilt of Getting to Know You, the marchlike verve of The Royal Siamese Children, which introduces to Anna and the audience a long procession of beguiling youngsters. Jo Mielziner's sets are gracefully evocative, Irene Sharaff's costumes steadily gorgeous. There is a delightful Jerome Robbins ballet-a daintily menacing Siamese version, all stylized and symbolic, of Uncle Tom's Cabin...
...individual voices were good, and almost everyone looked believable in the part, with Margnerito Willauer outstanding as the heroine, Oriane. She displayed a voice of gorgeous tone, rich and exciting, and used it with considerable dramatic skill; Adele Milhendler also deserves equally warm praise for her performance. Edward Zambara was as satisfactory looking a villain as one is likely to see, but his clear diction was somewhat spoiled by a thick American accent. It was evident that the pronunciation in general was carefully worked over, but even so the words were difficult to grasp. John Patterson, as the hero Amadis...
...United Nations Radio, Corwin advised his readers that radiomen want "the safe, routine, unspectacular, competent, journeyman script . . . with maybe a fresh twist no bigger than what you give to a lemon peel in a Martini." In TV, the writer is even less important: he "must step aside for Gorgeous George, Garrulous Godfrey . . . westerns, British films from the bottom of the vault, midget autos, roller-skating derbies . . . kitchen and fashion demonstrators, giveaways, and the upper slopes of Faye Emerson." But if he is willing "to curb his imagination" and to look on the medium as "a trade outlet...