Word: cadmus
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...Cadmus, Prince of Phoenicia, slew a dragon with Athene's help: its teeth, when sown, sprang from the earth as fully armed soldiers...
...ballet troupe that ever invaded South America. Tall, truculent Lincoln Kirstein, reviving his barnstorming Ballet Caravan, had assembled a company of 52, 60 crates of scenery and costumes, a repertory of 14 ballets. On opening night, Rio saw Estacion Gasolinera (by Choregrapher Lew Christenson, Composer Virgil Thomson, Painter Paul Cadmus), which the U.S. knew as Filling Station...
Married. Lincoln Edward Kirstein, 33, tall, tense esthete, director of Manhattan's School of the American Ballet; and Fidelma Cadmus, 33, sister of Sailor-&-Floozy Painter Paul Cadmus; in Manhattan...
Last week, at San Francisco's Golden Gate International Exposition, Dr. Walter Heil, head of the Fair's European and U. S. exhibitions, heard from one of his subalterns that the Navy was growling about the latest of Cadmus' naval cartoons, which hung, with other Cadmus paintings, in the Treasure Island treasury of U. S. art. Entitled Sailors and Floozies, it showed two sailors and a U. S. marine gleefully enduring the blandishments of three substantial-looking wenches. Dr. Heil took the picture down. Said he: "There's too much smell about...
...superior, Architect Timothy Ludwig Pflueger, ordered the picture hung again. Said he: "We have been unable to verify reports that the Navy objected." Said the Navy (an aide to Admiral Arthur Hepburn) : "What fools we'd be. We've learned from earlier foolish Navy squawks against other Cadmus paintings. It does us no good and merely gives the artist publicity." Said Paul Cadmus in Manhattan: "I don't think it libels the Navy. Nobody expects or wants the Navy to be made up of Lord Fauntleroys and Galahads. I think the picture portrays an enjoyable side...