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When Branwell got a box of toy soldiers as a present, he and his sisters gave them individual names and then went on to weave fantasies and adventures around them that would shortly turn the rectory into a feverish, secretive writers' workshop. They dubbed themselves the Four Genii: Genius Tallii (Charlotte), Genius Emmii (Emily), Genius Annii (Anne) and Chief Genius Brannii (Branwell). The writing began when Branwell was twelve, and the first two toy-soldier games, "The Young Men's Play" and "The Islanders" (in which each child peopled an island with heroes of his own choice) fused...
Love in Northangerland. Branwell and Charlotte were the chief collaborators, but in the next eight years the Four Genii produced hundreds of thousands of words...
...entertain the delegates. At the drop of a G.O.P. hero's name, sign-toting Young Republicans in varsity sweaters snake-danced down Cow Palace aisles like half time at College Stadium. At the rap of a gavel from Permanent Chairman Joe Martin, the demonstrators vanished like so many genii...
They could all find something worth looking at: there were seven special exhibits going at once. On the ground floor were a folk costume show and a comprehensive display of "The Weird"-no etchings, drawings and lithographs from the gruesome isth century genii of Albrecht Diirer to the willowy 20th century witches of Charles Addams ("May I borrow a cup of cyanide?"). Upstairs were other shows: the Metropolitan's 30 famed Rembrandts, a collection of miniature objects, earliest American landscapes, contemporary American watercolors, drawings and prints...
Some strange new names were glowing on movie marquees last week-Betty ("Ball of Fire") Rowland, Genii Young, Deenah Prince-and there were stranger things inside. In such films as International Burlesque, a New York outfit named Jewel Productions was profitably peddling a-brand-new movie line: old-fashioned flesh-and-spangle shows straight from the burlesque stage, converted to the screen with slight additions to the costumes and subtractions from the gags...