Word: impishness
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Notwithstanding the movie's happy ending, in which a rejuvenated Faust regains his rather confused soul, the legend's new and lighter mood is due mainly to M. Clair's revolutionary conception of Mephistopheles. Played by Michel Simon, the Devil's agent now appears as a wonderfully impish, intriguing, and incompetent procurer of souls--sort of a dumb burglar on a metaphysical level. Faust himself capitalizes on Mephisto's bumbling diabolicalness to lead a love life that seems well worth anyone's soul. He is portrayed by Gerard Philipe with just the right combination of gallantry and naivete...
Every ambitious zoo longs to exhibit some interesting animal that no other zoo can boast. Last week the National Zoological Park at Washington earned this distinction; it became the proud owner of three impish-looking, mustachioed young sea otters-Hortense, Aggie and Peter...
Lower still is the impish, fun-loving scribbler, the naughty Id, whom the doctor calls Betsy. The three of them start playing musical chairs...
...mermaid of Jean Giraudoux's rather waterlogged Ondine, proved a sprite that never was on sea or land. Equally near (though never under) the water, Shirley Booth was the principal lure of By the Beautiful Sea, while France's Jeanmaire brought something boyish, girlish and impish to the lumpish Girl in Pink Tights...
...white-maned old faker, now head of the Soviet delegation to the U.N., commands a dozen voices, from the sly wheedle to the choleric roar, a dozen expressions, from the impish grin to the basilisk glare. For all his arrogance, he is a much more entertaining performer than Russia's wooden men-Molotov, Malik, Gromyko. He is also a remarkable survivor of 37 years of power struggle in the Kremlin. A onetime Menshevik, he came through unscathed when the Bolsheviks put the Mensheviks out of business in 1921. He not only rode out the great purges...