Word: fawning
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...what a tumult of busy workers! The Silphae,* with wing cases wide and dark, as though in mourning, flee distraught, hiding in the cracks in the soil; the Saprini,* of polished ebony which mirrors the sunlight, jog hastily off, deserting their workshop; the Dermestes,* of whom one wears a fawn-colored tippet flecked with white, seek to fly away, but, tipsy with the putrid nectar, tumble over and reveal the immaculate whiteness of their bellies, which forms a violent contrast with the gloom of the rest of their attire...
...recapture the magic formula which made a hit of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' The Yearling (TIME, Jan. 13, 1947). The story was written by Novelist Rawlings, the lead is again played by Claude Jarman Jr. and Lassie is in the cast to handle the heart tugs supplied by a fawn in the first picture. The second venture, obviously intended to be a natural, is as unnatural as a purple zebra...
Those who are thoroughly sick of Lassic and all the sentimental pictures about thoroughbreds will naturally be wary of this one about a Southern home steader's boy and his pet fawn. But with the exception of a few views of the clouds to the accompaniment of singing voices. "The Yearling" suffers from none of the normal vices. The inscious, wooded setting is portrayed with the right amount of whimsy to suit the romantic tale, and the characters are people you can become interested is. For example, when the boy finally has to kill his pet, who has began...
Visiting the sets, Hedda is usually a better show than what is going on in front of the camera. She is a great crowd-pleaser. Her radio warm-up is one of the phenomena of the business. Her personality, italicized by her manic hats, stimulates the autograph hounds. They fawn on her at the studio gates. "Oh, g'wan with you," says Hedda brusquely. "I'm not a celebrity...
...barnlike recording studio in London, a trim, middle-aged actor in a fawn-colored Savile Row suit sat down last week before a microphone. Adjusting his horn-rimmed glasses, he spoke to a technician in the crisp Mayfair accent that is known to theatergoers the world over: "All I want is lots and lots of water to drink and to have a frightful fuss made over me." Noel Coward, 47, was taking his first serious crack at radio...