"X APPEAL"
If the BBC television experts have any formula for finding just the right combination of talent, beauty, voice, and grace, they have not said so; but the American talent-scouts, new as they are to this branch of radio, already have the requirements classified. The essential but elusive quality which enables an actress to " get over" on the television screen they class as "X Appeal" and _ successful candidates are called " telegenic." Twenty-one-year-old Caryl Smith was chosen by a board of experts as the most telegenic girl at the New York World Fair. "X Appeal," they say in the U.S.A,, is found most often in brunettes with dark eyes.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 1, Issue 17, 20 October 1939, Page 55
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109"X APPEAL" New Zealand Listener, Volume 1, Issue 17, 20 October 1939, Page 55
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