Word: swanning
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Jessie sat on the Gordon Linen sacks in the Radcliffe Quad putting forsythia into her hair. Suddenly she shot upwards and ran spring-like towards an oncoming Volkswagen. "Clipper!" she shouted, "I want to go ride the swan boats. I want to buy a balloon and blow bubbles and ride the swan boats...
...Gluck-Alceste Overture (D); Bach-Sonata #3 in E (C); Tchaikowsky-Swan Lake Ballet (V); Hayden Sonata #24 (MSLP); Gershwin-Concerto...
...acting is excellent. Actor Brynner, once the mind stops boggling at his henna-rinsed toupee, tugs powerfully at the sympathies. Actress Woodward, despite her tendency to develop mannerisms instead of a style, gives a winning and intelligent impression of an ugly duckling at the moment when she becomes a swan...
...Playwright Rod Serling told the story of a struggling 42-year-old TV playwright from Manhattan named Ernie Pandish, who sells a script and overnight becomes rich, famous and an s.o.b. Where once he listened to music while he worked (he apparently owned only one phonograph record, Swan Lake), now the only music heard is the snarling of his ego. He berates his wife (rather justly, it seemed to some viewers) for disliking all those Hollywood parties, and he fires his loyal, loving agent (well played by Jack Klugman) in order to get "representation" by a large agency. Says...
Marguerite Tarrant portrays the freelove femme of this item with considerable charm and not much evil, which lends frivolous class to the proceedings. It's a big part played effectively, and she is not the hardest to look at of actresses. James M. Swan deserves credit, too, for a vaguely sensitive approach to his role of a playwright who takes away Miss Tarrant, loses her, then gats her back along with somebody else, Richard Dozier, who had Miss Tarrant, lost her to Swan, took her away again, then got her back along with somebody else, Swan, etc. Dozier, who seems...