Word: piquantes
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Certainly piquant is the tile of the P. B. H. Conference on a Government Career. But there will be nothing intangible about the round table discussion, as Administration leaders take time out to explain their problems. Nor will the effort vanish with winter's last nasty days; already a permanent bureau of information on the possibilities of a Capitol Hill career is promised...
Reunion in New York (produced by The American Viennese Group, Inc.). The Viennese actors of last season's revue, From Vienna, seemed engaging and talented, but too alien for Broadway. The trouble wasn't their accent, which was piquant, but their material, which was ponderous. When they offered a second bill last week, their accents were less piquant but their sketches were more lively. Reunion in New York is more or less Broadway's conception of a Viennese revue. (And, just as likely, Vienna's conception of a Broadway one.) It lacks the pace...
Beautifully costumed, cleverly staged, its acts varied from acrobatics to ballet, from comic capers to spinning solos. It had no glittering star like Hollywood's Sonja Henie. But skating fans last week were ready to adopt new ice gods: Wisconsin's piquant Bess Ehrhardt and dashing Roy Shipstad (the "human top"); Adagio Specialists Idi Papez and Karl Zwack of Vienna (onetime European pair champions) ; Brooklyn-born Evelyn Chandler, who turns nine Arabian cartwheels without touching hands to ice; little Harris Legg, who takes a breath-taking leap over a lineup of eleven barrels and as a giant snowman...
Although they are ingratiating and talented enough players, with (by now) merely piquant accents, the first half of their revue was lumbering and slow. Following Viennese custom, they included one long, serious number - an allegory that chugs back through history making as many stops as a milk train. Their advisers should have warned them that the Vienna dear to U. S. hearts is one of fluffy Schlagobers, not heavy Sauerbraten...
Invitation to Happiness (Paramount). Prize fighters are not numerous, but the recurrent movies about the marital problems of prize fighters who marry above them have attained national significance. Most piquant of the recent lot, Invitation to Happiness bridges the social gap in a one-reel leap, thenceforth takes up where most palooka-heiress movies leave off, to see what may happen to such an alliance in, say, ten years...