Word: lording
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sinatra: At first there were only the bony fingers on the screen snapping out the electric rhythms against a black backstop. Then the camera pulled back to pick up the little man with the zooty clothes, the sad, sunken face and the glandular voice that coiled around Lonesome Road ("Lord, I'm gettin' mighty weary of this cotton pickin' load"). With the assured grace of a precision instrument, Crooner Frank Sinatra was making a TV comeback (after a flop in 1952) with his own show and the fattest contract in show business. For 13 half-hour musicals...
...page color cartoon showing a whiskered Uncle Sam smiling (regulars could not recall when Sam last smiled for the Trib) as he presented a bouquet to the Queen under the caption: "To a Charming Little Lady." Editorially, the Trib clucked in dismay over the bad taste displayed in restaging Lord Cornwallis' surrender during the royal visit...
...milliner (Susan Strasberg) has been summoned by the Duchess in order to impersonate the Prince's dead beloved; in acting both herself and the dead ballerina, the milliner successfully wrenches the Prince out of his deep freeze. Finally, after the happy Duchess and her wonderfully inept friend Lord Hector shoot a symbol down from the wings--a bedraggled phoenix, representing the finally defeated spirit of the ballerina--the play ends. It is an aristocratic fable, an intellectual fairy tale...
Unfortunately, Susan Strasberg, the third star, seems a mere satellite. She is miscast, and downright dull, speaking in a disagreeable adolescent voice that fits Anne Frank perfectly, but adds little brightness to Anouilh. Fortunately, there are some extremely amusing supporting actors. Glenn Anders is ideal as the glorious Lord Hector, and Sig Arno serves his role as a timeless headwaiter with a skillful dash of farce...
Portfolio distinguishes itself considerably by the direct, conscientious approach of all its selections, leaving attempts at ultra-modernity, super-sophistication and profound obscurity to other publications. John Von Rodenbeck's whimsical study of the victorious Nelson at Trafalgar, Anne Lord's charming sketch of Horses in a Field and Betsy Borden's Elm Tree in Spring demonstrate perhaps most lucidly this admirable use of poetic simplicity...