Word: beastes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reluctant dragon turns out to be a poetic green and yellow beast with the voice and mannerisms of Ed Wynn and a kangaroo shape. He is the Ferdinand of the dragons. The story of his reluctance to do battle with a toothy old English knight is not the most exciting Disney product. But nowadays the chief hazard to each new Disney show is the astronomically high standards of its predecessors...
...satisfaction they saw beefy, aging Emil Jannings play Stephanus Johannes Paulus Krüger, South Africa's famed Boer statesman, in Tobis Film's production Ohm Krüger. This Nazi rewrite of the Boer War for home consumption is pure propaganda-reminiscent of The Kaiser, the Beast of Berlin, and other thrillers tossed off during World War I to raise the U.S.'s blood to battle heat against the unspeakable Germans...
...fast man with his fists. He is afraid of nothing. As president of the Town Improvement Society, he cleans up the face of Elmsport. As a citizen of the world, he tries to rouse the U.S. from blind isolationism ("if England falls now, the raging monster, the murderous vampire beast of destruction won't stop there"); he founds a national organization called The Young Defenders of Liberty. He has been married for a long time now to Inza Burrage, the brunette for whom, in the old days, he once fought a mad dog. He has a nubile daughter...
Deadly rivals of man and beast for the life-sustaining juices of the earth's green plants are a vigorous group of non-green plants-the fungi. For ages men watched helplessly while these vegetable vampires literally sucked the green blood of plants, wasted their crops. But about 100 years ago, men armed themselves with scientific weapons and began a desperate war-still raging-against the fungal underworld. Last fortnight, in The Advance of the Fungi (Holt; $4), British Chemist E. C. Large offered a vivid story of the last century's battles, a brilliant reconnaissance...
...Princeton Tiger, most famous of famous, narrowly missed being a box office attraction when John "Profile" Barrymore refused to co-star with the beast...