Word: superbeings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...view from the villa was superb. But Countess Edda Ciano, nee Mussolini, was not interested. "What I want most of all is that my case be settled one way or the other," she said. "There is nothing more unbearable than this waiting...
...virtually unduplicable wit of Dorothy Parker. Miss Gordon was well qualified to reverberate the Parker echoes. Miss Dunne, despite her own kinds of charm and humor, is not. Mr. Knox, whose youthful appearance will surprise those who have seen him only in the title role of Wilson* is superb as the editor, whether chattering at the edge of mental exhaustion, or putting all possible gusto into a reading of a post-Wilsonian editorial. Good shot: the commanding officer's patronizing offer to help his hosts extract a frozen ice tray, and the cataclysmic result...
...Goes to Boston" offered at most a pleasing array of music, humor, and color. Leonard Levinson's flimsy book was rescued to some extent by the lively and semi-original three-quarter time music of Robert Stolz, who conducted a well-trained and inspired orchestra. It was, however, the superb coloratura soprano of Virginia MacWatters which turned the otherwise insipid show into what might well...
...white "Dutch boy" cap, arrived in Manhattan aboard the Queen Elizabeth. Then she caught a train for Ottawa, to gather up her three children and take them home. Tennessee's Congressman Harold H. Earthman, a fellow-passenger on the troop-packed ship, burbled to reporters: "She is superb. She is the most democratic princess I have ever known in my life...
...would be well worth the price of admission. The shimmering ragtime of many a half-forgotten early hit, beaten out by an invisible Oscar Levant; the brazen love call of the Winter Garden smash Swanee, groaned in all its original agony by blackfaced Al Jolson; Anne Brown's superb soprano raised again in the music of Porgy and Bess; and The Man I Love given an added pinch of pepper by Hazel Scott's post-graduate left hand are only a few of the courses served up in this lavish Gershwin feast. For dessert and liqueur there...