Word: schoolgirlisms
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...native Cologne, 27 years had passed. That had been quite a show. The entrance had been through a public lavatory, and visitors were given hatchets to smash what they liked-since the idea was to give everybody's subconscious desires free rein. In one corner a schoolgirl in a white Communion dress pipingly recited obscene verses. Quite delightful...
...high priest of surrealism (the successor of Dada), delicate little, white-haired Max Ernst was still going strong but his new show in a Manhattan gallery last week lacked something-the schoolgirl perhaps-which made that first exhibition memorable. Dada was a granddad now. And nowadays the visitors brandished checkbooks instead of hatchets. Instead of a live little virgin they found merely a semi-abstract painting distinguished by two nobbed streaks representing breasts or eyes, and entitled Foolish Virgins...
Child of Liberty. Sir Timothy Shelley, Bart., had hoped that his son would get comfortably to Parliament and stand for Reform. Instead, Percy took direct action against what he conceived as oppression, social and personal, by marrying a pretty schoolgirl who didn't want to go back to school. Blunden supplies attractive pictures of this adventure-of Harriet "ready to die of laughter" as the 20-year-old Percy, slim and shrill-voiced, stood on a Dublin balcony hurling moral tracts at selected passersby. A combatant for liberty, Shelley poetized in Queen Mob against kings, priests, commerce, wealth...
...lavish Technicolor showcase for the considerable singing talents of a freshfaced young actress named Jane Powell. Jane plays the adolescent daughter of the U.S. ambassador to Mexico (Walter Pidgeon). The plot relentlessly examines her kittenish romance with the British ambassador's young son (Roddy McDowall) and her schoolgirl crush on celebrated Pianist Jose Iturbi ( played by Jose Iturbi). Between times there are songs by Jane, songs by Ilona Massey (father Pidgeon's romantic interest), piano selections by Iturbi and rumbas led by Xavier Cugat (played by Xavier Cugat...
Last week she was a fluttery French ingenue, an English schoolgirl, a Southern belle, a young bride, a cackling 85-year-old murderess, an Irish landlady, a Mexican shrew, a neurotic. She was also rehearsing her normal voice for a new role in Herbert Marshall's The Man Called X (NBC, Tues. 10 p.m., E.D.S.T...