Word: sirene
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Miss Winters has made a fine showing, especially after her long career as a sultry siren of the South Seas. She acts with no great fund of experience, but with intelligence and emotion. Elizabeth Taylor manages to play the rich young lady as a warm and sympathetic human being, not a type. Add to that natural physical charm and you've got a good deal. Clift plays a character between these two extremes of drabness and vivacity, and he moves easily and naturally from one life to the other...
Susan Hayward, 32, a pert-nosed, durable redhead who after 29 routine pictures is being molded to super siren parts. Her current picture: David and Bathsheba...
...lead plane in the big review. But the rest of the year, Vasily Stalin is a mysterious figure. Sometimes Red newspapers interview him, but never identify him as his father's son. A few have seen his wine-red Mercedes-Benz convertible racing through Moscow's streets, siren wailing, and seen the police clearing a way through traffic. Others have seen him carousing in Moscow's clubs. Only two photographs of him have ever come out of Russia...
...Maestro was playing the piano when the telephone rang. He was so absorbed in the Beethoven concerto that he positively refused to recognize this foreign noise-but for me it was like trying to ignore a fire siren. Toscanini kept right on playing, and I was certainly going to continue as long as he did, but I could feel the pressure, the temperature rising. Any second, something had to explode...
Died. Olga Nethersole, 80, British stage star of the turn of the century; in Bournemouth, England. Noted for her siren roles ("the Nethersole kiss"), she was hauled off to a Manhattan court in 1900 (but cleared) for her then shocking Sapho...