Word: svengalis
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...Snyder in a West Side slum, and the closest he had come to the military life was in the Chicago gang wars. Known familiarly as "The Gimp" because of a pronounced limp attributed to 17 shotgun slugs in his leg, Snyder soon proved his ability as a show-business Svengali. He married Ruth and managed her from dingy nightspots to nationwide popularity. But the incessant obbligato to her torch songs was Snyder's fearsome behind-the-scenes frenzies. Mostly, his uncontrolled temper was directed at Ruth's employers, and the combination of her talent and his tan trums...
...Allen had opened. Glaring fiercely, the dog got four sheep to back slowly inside. However, a rebellious old ewe charged at Rock. Without even "popping his jaws" (snapping with feigned ferocity) or guiding her by the ear ("gripping" is illegal), Rock stood fast and caught her eye with his Svengali gaze. The ewe turned and pushed her way into...
Heroine Gene Tierney is married to a cracker jack psychiatrist (Richard Conte), who never suspects that she is a kleptomaniac who can't sleep. Fearful of losing his high opinion, she goes for help to an unctuous hypnotist (José Ferrer). One night, while Svengali Ferrer is off setting up an alibi by having his gall bladder out, she wakes out of a trance to find herself a first-class murder suspect...
...late Dancer Isadora's creaky, Hellenoid brother, long one of the sights of Paris (see cut), arrived in the U.S. to spend a year celebrating his 75th birthday. With the Attic cultist came a member of the faithful whom he introduced as Mrs. Aia Bertrand, "a sort of Svengali." He planned to put on his own opera ("a comic tragedy") in Manhattan's Town Hall, in which he would insure uniform quality by playing all the roles. Admission: free...
...legend has built up that Goodrich is a sort of Svengali; actually, he is a fine figure of a Naval Reserve officer with a quarterdeck voice and a manner to match. With him, Olivia has emphatically settled down. She has dropped all the friends of her fluttery, bachelor-girl days. When one of them (a middle-aged producer) recently tried to speak to her on the phone, he was informed that Mrs. Goodrich's former bachelor friends were no longer welcome. Said the dazed producer later: "What do I have to do to talk to her-get married...