Word: romps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...keep it intact for the Louvre. On his visits to Greece, Niarchos hands out gold sovereigns on the streets of Athens like a rich man's John D. Rockefeller. Some of his more offhand gestures have included chartering a steamship for a royalty-only romp in 1954 chaperoned by Greece's Queen Frederika. Niarchos obligingly provided another steamer last summer so that Elsa Maxwell could take an all-star supporting cast (Olivia de Havilland, Aly Khan, the Duke and Duchess of Argyll) on a Mediterranean junket while Niarchos cruised the other end of the sea aboard the Creole...
...whole cast enters with gusto into the spirit of the piece and seems to have a whale of a good time gamboling through the romp and missing none of its facetious facets. Jerome Kilty is superb in the title role of the earthy master of "the gentle craft" who eventually becomes Lord Mayor of London. It is one of those rich character parts that Kilty has made his specialty. The role further contains what is perhaps the largest repertory of oaths and insults ever assembled (mostly hurled at the cobbler's poor wife); Kilty manages to make them sound like...
...transition from carefree vacationer to record-breaking competitor was no romp in the surf. Ever since Carin decided to become a champion she has submitted to an endless grind. In the winter she works out five days a week in the Y.M.-Y.W.C.A. pool near her Ridgewood home. Once a week she travels to Manhattan for professional training at the Women's Swimming Association. When the weather warms up, she spends every day at Ridgewood's outdoor municipal pool, swims a mile morning and evening when the pool is uncrowded. "Afternoons," says Carin, "I put on my plaid...
Since Rancho del Monte is still very much open for business, Guestward Ho! will probably net double royalties: 1) at the bookstalls, as a highly readable romp with two innocents in pueblo-land; 2) at Rancho del Monte and vicinity, where soon a big traffic...
Under the Bed. Author Chevallier is obviously out for a fictional romp, and even people who deplore his easy tolerance can enjoy his plotless prattle. Marcel Aymé, as able a writer as any in France, is no more inclined to scold sinners, but his tightly plotted yarn is a more sardonic, more pointed comment on the human comedy. The Green Mare has some of the quality of a fable, as well as some of the inescapable judgment of life that every good fable offers. In the farm town of Claquebue most human feelings and actions are taken coolly...