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Poised & Plump. She has a superb complexion; everyone notices it right away. She moves with the unself-conscious ease of a person who knows she is alone in a room and won't be disturbed. When someone is talking to her, she concentrates completely on what he is saying, despite any & all distractions. During all the time I watched her the Queen maintained a remarkable expression on her face-as if this was an experience she had been awaiting months, and it had turned out better than she hoped...
...Composer Scott's incidental music has color also, and one or two of the little songs he has written for Mary Martin have a reedy charm. Actress Martin, straying far from the My Heart Belongs to Daddy sort of singing that made her famous, is attractive and scrupulously unself-indulgent in a role that leaves her, like Lute Song itself, a little lifeless...
...letters of credence had not arrived from Washington, but Chungking waved aside such formalities. In the American Embassy Pat Hurley held his first press conference, told reporters how he had taken part in parleys between Chiang Kai-shek's Government and the Chinese Communists. It was a strangely unself-conscious tale...
Those Were the Days grew out of Edward Hewitt's stories to his grandchildren, and is as warmhearted as a letter home, full of untroubled admissions of failures and modest accounts of achievements, of unsensationalized disclosures of gigantic frauds, and an unself-conscious wistfulness. "I should be just as happy as I have ever been," says Edward Hewitt in conclusion, "if it were not for the fact that Mrs. Hewitt has become an invalid. ... If only I could get my wife well again, life would be even more enjoyable...
...Primer on Pants," specifying: When to Wear Slacks (in the country, war service duty, other hard work); How to Buy Them (snug-fitting or closely woven fabrics to hold shape; with fly front to camouflage breadth through middle); How to Wear Them (with simple jewelry, low-heeled shoes, and unself-consciously); then destructively summed up: "Slacks look wonderfully well when they're right, incredibly bad when they're wrong. . . . A skirt is never wrong...