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...Guinéo, son of Ti-Coyo, is a Martinique moppet with the congenital amorality of a growing barracuda. He comes by his wicked ways naturally, since Daddy Ti-Coyo and Grandfather Cocoyo are born thieves who have come up in their island world by means that normally lead to the guillotine. Now respectable, they live on a prosperous seaside plantation. Their chief idiosyncracy is that they keep Manidou, a huge pet shark, in a specially built tank that has an outlet...
...Guinéo the boy and Manidou the shark are pals. They take off daily for long ocean spins, the boy riding easily by keeping tight hold of the shark's lateral fin. Guinéo likes to feed his voracious playmate, especially with human tidbits. By pretending to be helpless far offshore, he sometimes attracts a rescuing fisherman, whose extended arms are nipped off by the waiting shark. When the fisherman pitches into the water, Manidou gets the rest of him. Guinéo, who hates to study, gets rid of his tutor by taking...
...stretch of imagination, be made to recall his grandfather's mastery of color. But the real tear-squeezer of the show was twelve-year-old Célina Tai's crudely drawn portrait entitled (after a couple of false starts) "Mon grand-père Paul Gau-Guin," and copied from a Gauguin self-portrait...
...male parts in the coming production of the Wellesley "Barnswallows" dramatic club, it was announced last night. Trials were held Saturday and Monday in Phillips Brooks House by the Harvard Dramatic Club. This will be the second performance of the play, "The Dragons Teeth," by the English playwright Shirland Guin, in America...
Tryouts for the male parts in a Well esley Dramatic Club production will be held in Phillips Brooks House on Friday and Monday from 7.30 to 10 o'clock. The play is to be "The Dragon's Teeth" by the English playwright Shirland Guin; the scene is set in Europe immediately after the war and the six male characters are all officers. One is a young lientenant, another is an older man, the heroine's father, and a third is a comic character...