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Tall, spare, with wiry hands and, one might almost say, wiry features, William Beebe gives an impression of great nervous vitality and never ceasing vigor. He is direct, quick-thinking, and if his manner appears at times to be fussy, it is doubtless only the manifestation of an excess of...
Beebe is, primarily, the scientist. But only one chapter of Galápagos: World's End* is enough to prove him incurably romantic. Beebe is one of those few fortunate men who are doing, as I imagine it, exactly as they please. If he wishes to go to the...
Born in Brooklyn, William Beebe was educated at Columbia University. He has for many years been Honorary Curator of Ornithology of the New York Zoölogical Society. As you doubtless know, he is Director of the British Guiana Zoological Station, and here he spends a part of each year...
Just as Beebe, while he is slight and unimpressive, succeeds in creating about himself an atmosphere of romance, so he invests the smallest insects with qualities of rare charm. He owes much to Fabre and to W. H. Hudson; but his rhythmical and beautiful style is distinctive. He is, undoubtedly...
"A Perfect Lady" will also be interesting because Laurence Schwab is one of the authors of the "book", having collaborated with Frank Mandel, George Gershwin, who wrote the music, B. G. DeSylva, who supplied the Lyrics, Sammy Lee who staged the musical numbers and Lee Simonson, designer of the costumes...