Word: nymph
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...requires David to merge with a sugar heiress, so he plans to divert Audrey with some love-making of his own. After Bogie slips into his Yale sweater, takes the uke and Rudy Vallee records out of the closet, and goes courting, he has to determine whether the beautiful nymph will spend the rest of her life regaling him with choruses of La Vie En Rose, or be packed off on the next boat to Paris. Happily, the obviousness of this decision doesn't slow down the pace of the film...
...entirely different mood, neither nymph-like nor villainous, Ellis Rabb is absolutely superb. It is no news that Mr. Rabb is a fine classic actor (having appeared as Hamlet and Lear to great critical acclaim); but as Smee, Captain Hook's sentimental side-kick, he is just plain riotous. He has but to walk across the stage to get a laugh. The characterization is similar to one he used as Starveling in A Midsummer Night's Dream at Stratford last summer; but since he has considerably more to say as Smee, the concept is considerably enlarged. The shaky voice...
French Composer Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764) is represented on France's Pathe label in a farcical work titled Platee (mono). The plot deals with the wooing of Jupiter by a spinsterish water nymph. The quicksilvery score, with its pastoral interludes and lavish descriptive effects, is a delight, and the performance is first rate...
Stephen Addis' "Three Duets" (described as "Slim adolesence that a nymph has stripped") might have been stripped to two duets or even one, since the program was long enough already. Consisting of dances to flute and clarinet, the duets were too much of a good thing...
Bogart finds himself dateless on the big Princeton weekend and is drinking his way through to Monday when Diana-Sue arrives, a girl with flexible morals and eager glands. Bogard's friends, sports all, treat their visiting nymph to liquor, grain alcohol, benzedrine, and then exercise her in a "gangbang." Thus even sex becomes organized for the IBM generation...