Word: stylish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Stylish Stout. Last month she undertook still another operatic assignment, in the name part of Cherubini's Medea, done in concert form in Manhattan's Town Hall. The role is one of opera's most difficult, but it held no terrors for Soprano Farrell. During rehearsal her attitude was playful. She kidded the French horn player for a minute burble, grinned delightedly at the violins when they produced a soaring harmony. While her voice was deep in Medea's wells of grief, jealousy, and hatred, she artlessly combed her hair for a press photographer...
...which is to singers what the Palace was to Eileen Farrell's vaudeville parents, is sagging under a bumper crop of top sopranos and has made Farrell no overtures. She does not mind, among other reasons because she is not willing to trim her imposing figure to the stylish slimness theoretically desired, if rarely attained, at the Met. Says she: "I tried, but I felt terrible...
...give a bishop for Christmas? Or a Presbyterian seminarian? Or a nun? The advertising pages of denominational publications are full of suggestions. In this world of black and white, too, eyes are peeled for bargains ("Close-Out-BLACK SUITS-Only 52 Available"), and alert to style ("Nuns' Stylish Handbags-Outside Zipper Pocket...
Under the aegis of the French Club, Andre Gide's Le Retour de L'Enfant Prodigue is now making its first appearance on an American stage in a very small and very stylish way. The problem of adapting Gide's story was not great, since it consists of nothing more than a series of dialogues, but the handling of the whole affair by director Edward Morris is exceptionally witty. The result--though scarcely more than a half hour long--is nice theater...
...that, thanks to a case of nervous scissors, there is somewhat too little of a good thing. The scenes rush by so fast that by the time the moviegoer realizes where he is, he usually isn't. Like as not, though, he is in another brisk and stylish scene, surrounded by intelligent people who are obviously enjoying themselves. Kay Kendall, for instance, makes a damozel as dainty as court broidery, though she has precious little to do (as Grace Kelly complained when she refused the part) but "clutch her jewel box and flee." Robert Morley very nearly carries...