Word: impishness
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...named Carol Channing. On Broadway, an authentic new star is almost as rare a phenomenon as it is in the heavens. Perhaps once in a decade a nova explodes above the Great White Way with enough brilliance to reillumine the whole gaudy legend of show business. In 1938 an impish little brunette named Mary Martin took New York by storm one night when she sang a song called My Heart Belongs to Daddy. In 1930 Ethel Merman stood in front of the footlights in Manhattan's Alvin Theater, bellowed Gershwin's I Got Rhythm in a voice like...
...Wells' modern English ballets-with choreography by De Valois, Helpmann and Frederick Ashton. Among the best of these were De Valois' animated chess game, Checkmate, her Rake's Progress (after Hogarth's famous drawing sequence) and Ashton's gay Wedding Bouquet and impish Façade (to music by William Walton). They were performed with a brittle wit and a steely stylishness...
...time she got through Caravan, everyone knew Mary Lou was feeling all right. She had always relied more on her piano than her personality, and this time, bobbing to the beat with an impish smile, she was giving them everything-boogie-beat, bop-beat ("You don't hear it, you feel it"), right-hand ripples, thick, murky chords ("Right now I've got chords way ahead of bop"). She even took a rare fling at singing one of her latest, a "five-course" satire on bebop called The Land...
...stammered. "Well," said Margaret, "you're looking into the most beautiful eyes in England. The Duchess of Kent has the most beautiful nose. The Duchess of Windsor has the most beautiful chin. And I have the most beautiful eyes. Surely," she added, with an impish gleam in her eye, as her flustered partner groped for a suitable answer, "you believe what you read in the papers...
Montreal's Théátre du Gesu was sold out at every performance last week. The darling of the French Canadian theater, an impish comedian named Fridolin (real name: Gratien Gélinas) was on the stage in his new play...