Word: flora
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Squirrels doggedly went on gathering nuts. Oak trees continued to shed their leaves, though with an embarrassed air as if committing some social indiscretion. But other flora and fauna rebelliously refused to believe that it was really autumn. Shad (rarely seen after August) swam back up New Jersey streams, querulously tried to spawn. The giddier of Washington's famed cherry trees blossomed. Dogs panted in upstate New York, which had been blanketed by snow four weeks before. Flies came dazedly back to life, mosquitoes whined, roses and lilacs budded. An ostrich in the Cleveland zoo squatted with springtime ceremony...
...comes in snatches of crisp Shavian dialogue, but the entire effect is uneven and erratic. As the Roman conqueror, Claude Rains is excellent. He plays his part with intelligence and a calmness unmoved by the grandeur about him. Vivian Leigh is an effective contrast as Cleopatra, the girlish queen. Flora Robson, as Ftatateeta, a weird combination of killer and nurse, handles herself with barbaric competence. Stewart Granger, who looks like the muscular product of a California beach, manages adequately to make about half the audience squeal ecstatically...
When young (36) Mario Lasso was Mexican consul general in Chicago, by appointment of his uncle, Foreign Minister Ezequiel Padilla, he took personal care of tourist-card applications filed by particularly pretty girls. That was how he met his second and present wife, tiny, blonde Flora Dancy, 24, of Clinton, Ind., whom he brought back to Mexico last fall when he returned to run Uncle Ezequiel's presidential campaign. Says Flora of husband Mario: "Yes, a great wolf...
...greater off the battlefield than on it." Claude Rains's excellent performance makes that observation valid. As for Vivien Leigh, probably few actresses could have drawn as much fun, understanding and beauty out of Shaw's exquisite, violent, brilliant baby Queen. There are other excellent jobs: Flora Robson as Ftatateeta, Cleopatra's savage nurse; Anthony Harvey as her petulant, bewildered little brother; Francis L. Sullivan as the corrupt councilor, and Stewart Granger as Apollodorus...
...year-old Dr. Stearns was typical of the group. One of his first jobs, when he was in the Solomons with the Thirteenth Air Force, was to find out what was ailing pilots and ground-crewmen. His verdict: acute boredom. His effective remedy: gardening, classes about the natives, flora & fauna, geology...