Word: cleopatras
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According to legend, when Aphrodite emerged from the foaming sea, the earth was so eager to compete with the spectacle that it promptly produced the first rose. The flower has been much in evidence ever since: Mark Antony's death request was that Cleopatra cover his tomb with roses, and William Penn brought 18 roses to America from London.* The American Beauty is the flower of the District of Columbia, Georgia has the white Cherokee rose, Iowa the wild rose, and New York an unspecified variety of rose. But the indigenous goldenrod, despite its exaggerated reputation for producing...
...machine to the keys (his works were all in lower case because he was unable to land simultaneously on the shift key). His bruised outpourings are mostly about mehitabel, the life-battered but life-loving cat ("toujours gai, toujours gai") who is pretty sure she is a reincarnation of Cleopatra, the hottest cat on the Nile. The libretto is somewhat bowdlerized (gone is mehitabel's running refrain of "wottheheli wotthehell"), but the original's splendid gutter lyricism is still there: wind come out of the north and pierce to the guts within but some day mehitabel s guts...
Died. Irving Pichel, 63, longtime stage and cinemactor (Cleopatra), more recently a topnotch director (Martin Luther); of a heart ailment; in La Canada, Calif. After the success of Luther, Pichel went on to a more difficult subject, a week before his death completed Day of Triumph, the first full-length film on the life of Christ since Cecil B. DeMille's 1927 King of Kings...
Hungarian-born Perfectionist Pascal rose to fame and fortune with Pygmalion (1938). went on to make a career of producing G.B.S. on the screen (Major Barbara, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles and the Lion), won the Irish master's rare rating of "genius...
...best," says one of his more cynical American admirers, "it's Tynan two to one." He has an unerring eye for the sorest point, whether it be an actress' weight or her unpleasing hands. After seeing Britain's venerated Dame Edith Evans play Shakespeare's Cleopatra, he wrote: "Bereft of fan, lace and sedan chair, Dame Edith is nakedly middle-aged and plain...