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...Royal Navy had given Olivier leave to make Demi-Paradise (Adventure for Two) in the interest of Anglo-Russian relations, and extended it so that he could make Henry V "in the interests," says Olivier, "of Anglo-British relations...
Housebroken Suburbanites. Wilson's chronicle of his mythical county is a series of portraits of the demi-suburbanites who live amphibiously between heavily housebroken country and a U.S. metropolis (New York City). Unlike pudgy Author Wilson, the nameless narrator is a tall, slim analyst of the influence of social and economic conditions on painting. His neighbors and their doings are also imaginary, despite unmistakable glints and graftings of a well-known U.S. critic, a well-known radio commentator, an up & coming publishing house, a famed literary magazine and book club...
...imperceptibly supplanted by a young and vastly different one. And there is nothing, the older generation decides, that can be done about it. The younger generation is represented by Mike Melendy, Vaughan's grandson. "Mother's mixed up," he says. "So's Dad. I'm demi...
Lauritz Melchior, big, Danish-born No. 1 Wagnerian tenor of the Metropolitan, on vacation in South Dakota's Black Hills, dressed himself in demi-Danish hunting costume, by special permit brought down an 1,800-lb. buffalo...
...camphor that only the most insensitive cinemoths can survive it. On the notion that a terrible wheeze, properly delivered, can be even funnier than a good one, the revival of this stone-age (1919) stage farce might have turned out very well. But all the players handle its dim demi-wit as if it were Oscar Wilde epigrams...