Word: roguish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Ernst Lubitsch, 55, roguish ("Puck with a cigar") movie producer-director who got his famed "Lubitsch touch" from the late wunderbare Producer-Director Max Reinhardt and left it on a score of sophisticated implausibilities (Monte Carlo, Ninotchka, Cluny Brown); of a heart ailment; in Bel-Air, Calif. Lubitsch, whose German-made Gypsy Blood and Passion brought Emil Jannings, Pola Negri and a grace-note style of cinema comedy to the U.S. in 1919, was one of the first European directors to earn-and keep-Hollywood's cash-&-carry respect...
...Great is a roisterous, freewheeling and often very amusing story about a four-flushing circus owner. It straddles two generations of easy-money mischief and scalps a whole zoo full of roguish characters. It is as blusteringly improbable as a W. C. Fields movie, and has some of the same appeal. Beneath the bluster, Gus the Great skillfully satirizes the great American success story...
...pitched horseshoes to whet his appetite for a birthday luncheon party in the office of Attorney General Tom Clark. The party was gay. Even the six Supreme Court Justices present guffawed when the finically dressed President put on a roguish Texas sombrero. Carefree as a boy, Harry Truman sliced a toothsome birthday cake with three flickering candles-for the past, present and future...
Trenet is just 30, six feet tall, and built like a halfback. His creamy tenor occasionally softens to a bedroom whisper, but usually it is roguish and rolling. As he sings, he twists and crumples a battered felt hat. That was how he began ten years ago in Paris' Bohemian cabaret Le Boeuf sur le Toit (The Ox on the Roof). Soon he was earning more on the radio and in the music halls than Chevalier. During the war he sang for French prisoners in Germany. He looks well-fed; as he explains it, "there is always a crust...
This modernized version of Jack and the Beanstalk, told in roguish tones and with many a froggy giggle, has held thousands of moppets glued to the phonograph. It has also kept radio's Hal Peary well stocked in golden eggs. As Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve, the befuddled buffoon he portrays for NBC (Sun., 6:30-7 p.m., E.S.T.), he got $40,000 for recording Jack, Puss in Boots and Rumpelstiltskin in a four-record album for Capitol Records. ("I did it just for a lark," said he, "and didn't expect to make more than carfare money...