Word: nitwittedness
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No doubt Goncourt would have been pleased to find how durable this class of sexual object turned out to be. Pink and proletarian, tousled, complaisant and rather nitwitted, she persisted as the Ideal Mistress (counterpart to the Fatal Woman) well into the 20th century. Her ancestors are the nymphs of...
Louisville physician, joins the Gold Rush hoping that some day he will return "laden with the treasures of Golconda, respected, envied by all, denied credit by none." His son Jaimie goes along mainly to escape high school, feeling himself "already educated to the point of absurdity." As they pick up...
The Boy Friend cannot help seeming a little thin and repetitious in spots. But for the most part it is not only amusing but appealing. Playwright Wilson, who is too young to have seen what he writes about except from his pram, plainly loves the thing he kills, fondles every...
Blonde Apprentice. Barbara had been more favorably noticed as Amy than even she suspected, and before the end of her first semester at Andrebrook, Producer Kirkland offered her a part in a real Broadway show. On Feb. n, 1941 Barbara made her Broadway debut as an amiably nitwitted ingenue in...
The Magic Touch (by Charles Raddock & Charles Sherman; produced by John Morris Chanin) is the new season's first-and may well be its worst-play. It is a farce about a young couple struggling to get by on $28.50 a week, and a plunging publisher who sniffs a...