Word: plush
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Eagle Has Two Heads (translated from the French of Jean Cocteau by Ronald Duncan; produced by John C. Wilson) and, what's more remarkable, flies backwards. Famed French Avant-Gardist Cocteau's "romantic melodrama" is outdated purple-&-plush palace theatrics, which starts off with a poet-revolutionist plunging through a window into the royal boudoir, and winds up with a dying queen toppling headlong down a vast flight of stairs...
...Manhattan, Dancer Astaire, now 47, teamed up with an old friend, Charles Casanave, to open a plush new dancing studio (deep red carpets, blue-green walls, yellow and red covered furniture). There, at $70 for a ten-hour course, Astaire hopes to teach all comers to dance something like Astaire...
Overcoming difficulties in finding a place to rehearse when it moved to the plush Somerset Hotel, "Saint Joan" will open at 8:30 o'clock Wednesday and run for four days...
Forcibly ejected from the cold and uncompromising confines of a cellar in the House Squash Courts, the Veterans Theater Workshop yesterday whipped through its first complete rehearsal of "Saint Joan" in the luxurious plush of the Hotel Somerset's Princess Room...
...Thrill of a Romance," playing on Friday, you get the formula musical, dull, plush, and empty. The main attractions here are Lauritz Melchior singing "Vesti la Giubba" in the lobby of a slick Western hotel, Esther Williams in some submarine contortions, and Van Johnson as his usual creamy self...