Word: amphibianism
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...Billy smartly staged a rival Centennial at Fort Worth, stole the limelight and the crowds. Smart again a year later, he mopped up in Cleveland. Smart once more, for New York's monster shindig Billy Rose took over the Fair's huge marine amphitheatre, announced an elaborate amphibian revue. Last week Rose unveiled his water lilies...
...drama and feeling, Lillian Hellman's plays meet their grim situations headon. A moralist, not a misanthrope, Playwright Hellman ferrets out evil and malice not to wallow in them but to flay them alive. Witty, sociable, personally far from stern, Lillian Hellman is happiest while lazing through an amphibian summer on an island off Connecticut, with such friends as Dorothy Parker (who suggested the title for The Little Foxes), Dashiell Hammett, Arthur Kober. But today, awake to the troubled world around her, Lillian Hellman loafs seldom. Militantly antifascist, she two years ago spent a month under bombardment visiting Loyalist...
...tousled, green-eyed boy who gives him an ancient amber cup, tells queer tales, disappears in the sea. As other meetings between them follow, Molly keeps sympathetic pace with Henry's lyric excitement, approves his redecorating his house as a green cave, controls her jealousy of his amphibian kinsman. By this time the reader has guessed that Author Dane is not writing a simple triangle fantasy: Henry and Molly symbolize the struggle between the Poet and Domesticity...
...frightened. Last week in Astoria, Ore., William and Emil Urell, operators of a mink farm, appeared before a board of officers from a nearby Coast Guard station, claimed the U. S. Coast Guard owed them $6,750 for damages. Right after the whelping season, they testified, a Coast Guard amphibian plane whizzed over their farm within 150 feet of the ground. The mother minks, terror-stricken by the drumming racket, dashed wildly about the cages, seized their 270 mink kittens, gobbled them up. Attorneys for Messrs. Urell cited two previous court decisions as basis for their claims. Astoria townfolk...
Typical shots: Tarzan nuzzling contentedly with his lithely amphibian mate in their rock-bound swimming pool, undulating into an underwater kiss for a fadeout. Best all-round performer: Cheetah, the Chimp...