Word: storybooks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Long inured to the ceremonial trappings, lofty pageantry and storybook unreality of Hollywood's baubles, the U.S. last week got a rare chance to show that it knows the genuine article when it comes along. It came−a sweeping constellation of exalted royalty, heralded by the solemn magnificence of equerries, secretaries, aides and ambassadors−and the U.S. found that Britain's Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip, not symbols alone, but flesh-and-blood people, respond with the same human warmth and simple good will that Americans hold out to them...
...tour−1,350 accredited by the U.S. alone−did not mind the extra work so much as the fact that, as the Washington Post and Times Herald's Edward T. Folliard put it, "this isn't a story, it's just a storybook." Everything happened according to schedule, putting, a heavy strain on the same old adjectives. Complained Hearst's Dorothy Kilgallen: "The only thing you can say for 'this story is that nobody can get scooped. I simply can't write 'radiant' or ''beaming...
Most respected figure is the grand old man of Soviet graphic art, Book Illustrator Vladimir (Boris Godunov, The Lay of the Host of Igor) Favorsky, 71, whose prints have a turn-of-the-century, storybook quality but whose draftsmanship rated a "jolly able, jolly competent" from one British artist. Most original works were by Leonid Soifertis, staffer on the Soviet humor magazine Krokodil, whose casual hand turns out cartoons that rate a Soviet belly laugh, e.g., a dig at infant prodigies that shows a child with huge bull fiddle, both of which have to be carried on the stage. These...
...accession of the new Conservative Prime Minister, who led his party to the most stunning electoral upset in Canada's history, ended 22 years of Liberal rule (TIME, June 17). It was also the fulfillment of a storybook promise. As a strong-willed boy of ten, he announced an ambition that shaped his life: "I'm going to be Premier of Canada...
...this, with handsome Ralph Alswang sets and superb Motley costumes, has a fine storybook air, but no vibration as story. Nor is showing this hopeless family man for a few years among his family very rewarding. Too much slighted is the George who was not always fat and fatuous, the sometime companion of Sheridan and Fox who adorned as well as tarnished a picturesque society. His maudlin lament, after Charlotte's death, that he can father no royal line, seems both needless and out of character in the father of Regent Street and Regent's Park, the Brighton...