Word: zipped
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...seems overdone. Basil Rathbone and John Baer wander onscreen long enough to look properly villainous. Joan Bennett and Gloria Talbott add their pretty confusions to the artificial turmoil. Technicolor gives the picture a fairly handsome mounting, but nothing can rescue the story from too much talk and too little zip...
...Before coming to Cold Spring, Miss Ella May Holbrock, 77, found that she was far from satisfied with just keeping house for her niece. Now, with the new interests she has discovered, she intends to return to Watertown, N.Y., join a local dramatic society and put some zip in the Senior Citizens Club. "In an old-age group like that," says she, "there are too many who just want to sit around and play pedro...
...George Abbott and Douglass Wallop; music & lyrics by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross) involves most of the team that turned out The Pajama Game. This time baseball is their target, and with pretty nearly as happy results. Under George Abbott's direction, there is a constant sense of zip, an occasional effect of explosion. There is plainly a belief that all music aspires toward a brass band's exuberance, all locomotion toward a fire engine's clanging speed. And there is a very proper belief that one Gwen Verdon is the equal of a hand-picked chorus...
...show needs more such perkiness. more of the zip Belafonte puts into When the Saints Go Marching In. brighter chitchat than likable Hiram Sherman brings to lifting the silver dishcovers off each new course. But the show's weak points may have popular lure. Its concert air half-conceals its TV approach; its chorus that specializes in trick sound effects substitutes vocal decor for visual. The show's big production gimmick is its extremely high-styled hick stuff...
...traditional reccoon coat fedes farther into the past and the bulky coat of recent years gives way to the lighter, weather repellent fabrics with zip-in linings. That felt hat still crown the style of Harvard's well dressed...