Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Austria's Dr. Karl Renner, the veteran Social Democrat whom Russia had placed in power, last week resigned as Chancellor. The Volkspartei, victorious at the elections (TIME, Dec. 3) was busy organizing a new multi-party Cabinet. The incoming Chancellor, slender, pleasant, subtle, 43, was a man few Austrians knew much about until the Allied victory in Europe. His name: Leopold Figl...
...Mermaids Singing (by John van Druten; produced by Alfred de Liagre Jr.) puts a pleasant little bauble in a very large box and fills in all the open spaces with tissue paper. The result, as always with an overwrapped gift, is disappointing...
...before Spring (music by Frederick Loewe; book & lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner; produced by John C. Wilson) juts up above the messy season's other musical exhibits, but is still slightly below see level. It is tasteful and tuneful, has some pleasant performers, an agreeable look. Even so, it is too much like a rubber ball that is new, pretty, smooth-and just won't bounce...
...friends include hundreds of alumni and parents, students-who see less of him now than their predecessors did-and his grandchildren, who call him "Boo." He was an English professor at Williams College when he was hired for Exeter; but at Exeter he teaches no classes. He is casual, pleasant, hearty, but no backslapper. Summers at Martha's Vineyard he conducts secular Sunday services, reading favorite passages from Tom Sawyer...
...With It? (book by Sam Perrin & George Balzer; music & lyrics by Harry Revel & Arnold B. Horwitt) boasts some pleasant tunes, picture-pretty Joan Roberts from Oklahoma!, and enough young enthusiasm to keep it running for some time. The plot revolves around a meticulous young insurance actuary (Johnny Downs) who joins a traveling carnival. This combination should inspire some flights of insurance-company satire or some gay carnival horseplay; but neither keeps the show off the ground for very long...