Word: goddesses
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...ladies in cheesecloth. Taking a line from Virgil's Georgics ("Happy would be the men of the fields if they knew their good fortune") as his inspiration, Artist White painted a large oak beneath which is seated Cybele (Great Mother of the Gods). At her right is Pomona (Goddess of Fruit Trees), at her left, Ceres (Mother Earth). Flora, Goddess of Flowers, dreams while Pan flutes. There are also a grandfather who explains the gods, some reapers and sheep. Thomas Gilbert White, born 56 years ago in Grand Haven, Mich., has spent most of his life in Paris...
...that after he went to a play the first thing he asked himself was whether it was as good as Disraeli. When Arliss hurt his hand and had to do all his business with one arm, there arose a legend that Disraeli had paralysis. Compared to Disraeli, The Green Goddess was a failure; Arliss played it for only three years. Old English in which skinny Arliss was a hard-drinking, robust old Tory, was his greatest financial success on the stage. In Hollywood, George Arliss is an extraordinary personage. He stops work every afternoon for a cup of tea, goes...
...obscure, ambitious general deserted the once potent Hoji family of military tyrants and threw his army on the side of the exiled Emperor Go Daigo. The Emperor's side won. Having set Go Daigo, descendant of the Sun Goddess, back on his throne in Kyoto, Takauji Ashikaga lost no time in pulling himself up by the sacred boot straps of the Emperor. As the Emperor's most trusted adviser he hoped to become Shogun. When Go Daigo appointed his son instead, Takauji, furious but resourceful, persuaded the Emperor that his son was a traitor...
Walküre's second act might have ended disastrously if it had not been for the courage of Contralto Karin Branzell. She was Fricka, the angry goddess who has a long scene with the erring Wotan. Last week she had gallstones. Pain, not expert acting, made her sing most of her music with clenched fists. Finally she had to sit down on a stage rock but she finished her scene, majestically left the stage, fainted...
Emerging, the Grand Chamberlain announced that the name was indeed Akihito Tsugu no Miya. The Chief Ritualist departed with seemly haste to make this known to the Sun Goddess and other ancestors of the Imperial House. Not until 11 a. m. was the name entered in the register of the Imperial Household by the Minister of the Imperial Household. Not until it had been so entered was word flashed to Japanese cruisers in Tokyo bay to blaze away a 21 gun* salute while Tokyo sirens screamed and the whole metropolis joined in a thrice-repeated shout of Banzai...