Word: schoolgirlisms
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Africa.' I thought of all he'd been through, and then I blushed like a schoolgirl and said: 'It was nothing, general. It was really nothing...
Well-Scrubbed Schoolgirl. Few Broadway stars have failed so signally to look the part. As Patty, Barbara Bel Geddes (rhymes with wed us) looks and talks more like a Bryn Mawr graduate (which she is not) than the cop's daughter she plays, and more like Barbara Bel Geddes than either. In the navy blue pullover sweater, plain skirt, saddle shoes and white dickey collar which she wears about town almost as a uniform, she could easily be confused with a well-scrubbed Connecticut schoolgirl off to the movies...
...girlish bob, and gazes at the world through clear hazel eyes. In a medium where pose and posture are the standards, she is almosl startlingly forthright. Painfully self-conscious under scrutiny, uninhibited among close friends, Barbara can cuss like a longshoreman and make it sound as offhand as a schoolgirl's "Jeepers." The effect of such artlessness on the stage is to make practically anything Barbara does seem credible and convincing. One mark of her real talent lies in the fact that she can be herself and still translate the flick of an eyelash or the sting...
...come-hither approach proved a welcome change from they-went-thataway. Frenchie does not make the grade. The script's attempts to laugh at sex come down to smirks and leers, and Actress Winters plays a poor man's Mae West with little more authority than a schoolgirl flouncing through the attic in mother's old clothes...
...origins. Londoners like best his stock characters, such as cockneys, hard-boiled moppets (one proudly reported that he had not only spotted spring's first cuckoo, but shot it with his air rifle) and the Giles "family." This includes beefy, solid Dad and Mum, a scrawny pig-tailed schoolgirl, two older homely sisters, a horrid, runty little boy and stumpy, grumpy Grandma who smells of camphorated oil and dotes on "bulls' eyes" (a peppermint candy...