Word: offscreen
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...Offscreen as on, the face looks a little too beautiful to be true, like the kind of adolescent daydream served up in the comic strips. The cut of the face is Betty Boop, but the coloring and expression are Daisy Mae. The eyes are large and grey, and lend the features a look of baby-doll innocence. The innocence is in the voice, too, which is high and excited, like a little girl...
...podium offscreen was Musical Director Peter Herman Adler, wearing a particularly abstracted look because the music of his orchestra impinged directly on one ear, while the singing of the distant cast and chorus entered his other ear through a headphone. If he wanted to see how the action looked, he peeked at a nearby monitor TV screen. He was also watched by a TV camera, and his image was flashed on monitor screens in the chorus room and at various points in the block-long onetime movie studio that served as the stage. There, relay conductors glued their eyes...
...learn to ice-skate and swim, but, mostly, his singers need only look at the floor with humility while Arthur tells viewers what good kids they are. On the George Gobel Show, Peggy King's main nonsinging chore is to rub noses with Funnyman Gobel before he wanders offscreen. Denise Lor's task is more elusive: Garry Moore hired her because he thought she was "somebody the Middle West would like." The Midwest likes...
...Expression. Most admen agree that the new look in announcers was started by Ed Sullivan of Toast of the Town. Despite his wooden expression and lack of announcer's glibness, Sullivan does the sort of job that makes any sponsor swoon with joy. He spends much of his offscreen time racing around the nation on the dedicated work of selling Lincolns and Mercurys. He addresses regional meetings of auto dealers ("I explain that we're all part of a team'') and will show up in Portland. Ore., for its Rose Festival or Memphis for the crowning...
...arrived than Grant discovers that Hepburn, a runaway adolescent, has parked herself on his premises. Sure that Tierney won't understand, he hides the girl in the attic. From there out, it is pie-in-the-eye farce, but with a gentle sigh to be heard, just offscreen, for the inexorable way of a maid with a man. Best of all is the fine satin cushion of language underneath the folderol...