Word: smiles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Aisle (music by Jule Styne; lyrics and sketches by Betty Comden & Adolph Green; produced by Arthur Lesser) can smile gratefully at its stars, Bert Lahr and Dolores Gray. Lahr remains among the best of the oldtime funnymen, and there are virtually no new ones. He has a nice comic face, he can make nice comic faces. He has a showman's sixth sense; his antics have authority. Best of all, he can lose his head splendidly when all about him are stodgily keeping theirs. As Captain Universe, leading the Space Patrol in a piece of stupendous interplanetary science fiction...
...Lahr and Miss Gray can smile a trifle sadly at Two on the Aisle. Its skits are the show's main virtue, and even some of them should work shorter hours. But Sketch Writers Comden & Green (On the Town) have really satiric minds, and at their best are very funny. Elliott Reid is funny, too, in a take-off of the Kefauver committee hearings. The music is all too thin, however; the dances are dullish, the production numbers mostly colorless. But thanks to its stars, a rather negligible revue still manages to be a very pleasant evening...
...cameramen opened up on one another. In some cases the lensmen closed to a yard or less; one Chinese movie cameraman got so excited that he fired for half an hour with all three of his lenses capped. Some of the Communists relaxed to the extent of returning a smile. But several refused U.N. cigarettes and one turned away to spit on the ground...
...accustomed to U.S. editors who cut superfluous words, he complained that his famous Korean cease-fire speech had been censored in part. Said the nettled delegate: "American newsreels and television cut out much of the things I said." With a little coaxing, however, Malik managed a stiff smile and a few careful words: "Best luck and wishes to those in this country who fight for peace and friendship between our countries...
...Paris, it had been a pretty dull one; but she was accomplishing a mission. "This pleasant, unaffected young woman," said London's Daily Express, "endears not only herself but her father to the millions in Europe." Added Paris' Le Monde: "She is not pretty, but her smile . . . and her complete lack of affectation have won everybody." Back home the New York World-Telegram and Sun agreed: "After some of the dames who've represented American womanhood in Europe's salons and saloons, she must be like a breath of air straight from the clover patch...