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...dominate his dummy by demanding top billing, keeping some of the laughs for himself, and crowding Jerry's act by introducing new characters. A Brooklyn bumpkin named Knucklehead Smiff is now getting a big buildup. But Jerry, a redhaired, eye-rolling twelve-year-old, remains a scene stealer whose small-boy enthusiasms (Winchell reads comic books to keep in style) and good-natured sauciness (but none of Charlie McCarthy's lethal impudence) surmount the reality that he is actually 25 Ibs. of whitewood, metal and rubber, with rods, latches, levers, springs, glass eyes and a broomstick spine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Keeping Jerry in Line | 9/28/1953 | See Source »

...role of Gigi's mother, a frustrated Lakme in whom champagne brings out the Bell Song, Doris Patston contributes a giddy charm and a hefty coloratura. Michael Evans is too flamboyant as the roue snared by innocence, but Bertha Belmore's comic maid is the most accomplished scene stealer on the current stage...

Author: By R.e. Oldenburg, | Title: Gigi | 2/27/1953 | See Source »

...show-stealer is Tinker Bell, Peter Pan's lustrously blonde playmate. On the stage, Tinker Bell has usually been depicted as a flicker of light. (In the earlier movie version, she was an automobile headlight bulb decorated with tinsel, and manipulated with a fluttery movement on the end of a fishing pole.) Through the magic of the animated cartoon, she is a bosomy little vamp, not much bigger than a dot of light, who flits about enchantingly with a silvery tinkle of bells in a sprinkle of golden pixie dust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Feb. 2, 1953 | 2/2/1953 | See Source »

Braves: Outfielder Sam Jethroe (TIME, March 20, 1950), the National League's "rookie-of-the-year" and leading base, stealer (35); Rookie Luis Marquez, 25, Puerto Rican-born outfielder who hit .311 for Portland last year, led the Pacific Coast League in stolen bases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Place in the Sun | 5/14/1951 | See Source »

...serious argument." As the government barrage ripped into him, Churchill squirmed, slapped his waistcoat, fumbled in his pockets, finally got to his feet, turned and looked behind him. Spellbound, the entire House watched Winnie's antics. Gaitskell broke off his rebuttal. Churchill apologized impishly. Explained the seasoned scene-stealer: "I was only looking for a jujube...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Search for a Jujube | 2/26/1951 | See Source »

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