Word: porterish
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...pleased with the public's lukewarm, if friendly, reception of Elizabeth at her coming of age (TIME, April 24). The press was not pleased with the stereotyped handouts it got from the King's secretary, courteous Sir Eric Charles Mieville. The copy consisted largely of Gene Stratton Porterish references to the Princess' wholesome character...
...general, Composer Porter has relied on comic ditties instead of trying to dazzle the customers with languorous Latin rhythms. But out of a pleasantly unexciting score emerges one fetching, early-Porterish tune, I Love You. The dancing, too, is Main Stem rather than Mexican-fast routines and catchy specialties. The sets are vivid, the costumes showy. Killjoy on the hayride is the book, which for a while is a worse threat than...
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