Word: leighs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scrambles grandfather, the attic bed and the six-cylinder Reo of Columbus, Ohio, fame in rather poor fashion). Good parody, it seems to us, should be funny in itself; but we hate to quibble and if you know what they're taking off from, the Namlerep piece and the Leigh Profile are both top-notch. We can't wait for the Lampoon parody of Strength & Health...
W.C.T.U. President Mrs. D. Leigh Colvin's view of hard liquor as a political menace: "Drink ... is the first step away from religion, and atheists are the most likely to become Communists...
Last week at a quiet ceremony, Joseph Armstrong laid the cornerstone of his new building. Into it will go the letters Browning exchanged with Florence Nightingale, Leigh Hunt, Benjamin Jowett. There will be Browning's clock, snuffbox, diary, account books, first editions of all his works, the portfolio he held in his lap when he wrote. Only one of Armstrong's treasures will not be there-Browning's ring, which Joseph Armstrong wears himself and absentmindedly twists when talking...
...does he make his pictures look so real? Placing his fingertips gently together, Leigh tried to explain the vanishing art: "You start with a detailed charcoal drawing and then paint over that-the most distant thing first. If there are no clouds, the sky may take no more than a day. The distant figures may be done in a week. It gets more difficult as you approach the foreground-a large canvas may take four to six months altogether- but the most economical way is to finish as you go. At least that's what / was taught...
...Vivien Leigh is lashed about by the tremendous role of Anna like a pussy cat with a tigress by the tail. She is not assisted by a script which insists on sentimentally ennobling one of fiction's most vehemently average women. Irish-born Kieron Moore, Britain's newest cinematinee idol, is badly miscast as the debonair Vronsky; he appears to be an idol with feet of peat. The principals suffer further by comparison with Sir Ralph Richardson, whose Karenin fairly lumps out the screen with its three-dimensional reality...