Word: babylonic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...organization's first production was a play called "I Was A King in Babylon," which was nightly presented in an almost empty Rindge Tech theater in December, 1946. It was a play dealing with some wildly assorted historical characters reincarnated in contemporary England: an amusing literary device, but dull theater, as it turned out. The losses were heavy, and the only things which held the inchoate group together were confidence in its leaders, critical praise received by its principal actors, and the encouraging results of a poll which had just been raken to find the College's preference in drama...
...good." ¶Burbank, Calif, called off plans for a $2,500 float to represent the city at Pasadena's Tournament of Roses, decided to spend the money toward a new sewer. ¶After a year of editorializing, letter-writing and resolution-passing, local historians of Babylon, N.Y. got the Board on Geographic Names to reverse itself, make the name of their creek Sumpwams, instead of Sumpwams. Expressing gratification, J. H. McAllister of the Babylon Leader explained: "It's an old Indian name-somewhere between a grunt and something else." The ordinary Babylonian, however, went on calling it East...
Modern Dinosaur? Are any dinosaurs still around? Ley tells of the Ishtar Gate in the ruins of Nebuchadnezzar's Babylon, which is decorated with portraits of the sirrush, a scaly, tall-walking reptile with clawed hind feet like a bird. The drawing is singularly detailed, and like nothing known to modern man until he dug up fossil dinosaurs. Ley thinks that the ancients may have seen something like, a living dinosaur. Perhaps modern man may still see one. Ley cites many descriptions of a dinosaur-like creature that may be roaming the Central African swamps...
Arrival in Babylon. "Never once did I feel like a stranger. Most New Yorkers speak as bad English as I do. They all understood me perfectly well. I tell the customs man I am a Brazilian professor proceeding to Vassar. One said to me: 'O.K., Prof. Got any Brazilian stamps?' I gave him some. He did not look at my baggage. They have a high opinion of professors in America...
Paulette Goddard was all set to play Lucretia Borgia. Producer Lester Cowan was about to go ahead with a film version of the late F. Scott Fitzgerald's Babylon Revisited. The Broadway hit of 1927, Burlesque (a hit revival on Broadway in 1947-48), had its title changed to When My Baby Smiles at Me. There would be a remake of Little Women, with June Allyson, Elizabeth Taylor, Margaret O'Brien and Janet Leigh as the four March girls. A sequel to The Jolson Story was announced; this time Al Jolson would play himself...