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...religious and patient Petunia, sings Vernon Duke's "Taking a Chance On Love" and "Cabin in the Sky," life is a different thing. But even she is unable to steal the whole show. Rex Ingrain, whose face and voice will be most recently remembered as that of the Genii in "The Thief of Bagdad," is about as devilishly good as Lucifer, Jr. could be. His be-winged opponent in the contest over Little Joe's destination after death, the Laws's General himself, is sung and acted, with the experienced touch of Todd Duncan. Little Joe, the wayward, crap-shooting...
...devil's own time trying to explain this mysterious, well-drilled maneuver. In Strömberg's view, it is initiated and controlled by an "immaterial wave of organization." Though immaterial, the guiding wave has a structure in spacetime. Strömberg calls it a "genie" (plural, "genii...
...developing embryo, far more complex than a single cell, has a commanding genie and subordinate genii for each organ, each cell. So has an adult organism. Even colonies of individuals may have a commanding genie, as when the marine animals called Portuguese Men-of-War gather in a cluster which behaves like a single animal, with groups of individuals told off to perform various organic functions. Finally, the whole universe, which is in constant evolution, must have a supreme genie-the Cosmos or World Soul...
...HURRICANE'S CHILDREN-Carl Carmer-Farrar & Rinehart ($2). Collection of 20 freshly-collected U. S. folk tales, interspersed with roaring prose poems, about the tall doings of such giant standbys as Paul Bunyan, such lesser-known U. S. genii as Ichabod Paddock and Kemp Morgan, a Nebraska newcomer named Febold Feboldsen...
...conscientious woman who really runs the particular office. She rarely has the title. . . . Perhaps some of you have wondered how politicians, lifted suddenly from obscurity, can carry on the intricate affairs of a highly technical government job. There is no mystery. These transplanted gentlemen have not, by magic, become genii of finance or statesmanship, but they have found in their new offices some unassuming woman who knows what it's all about and carries on. I could name a dozen such cases, but I won't. Custom has hallowed the procedure. . . . When all this emergency is over, there will...