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...make up for this faulty casting she gives the part an interpretation that is spirited and novel, if incorrect. Robert Peters as Captain Corcoran, Roger Murphy as Dick Deadeye, and David Shapiro as Sir Joseph Porter, and all far better than average amateur performers. Nancy Ryan's Cousin Hebe is one of the finest that I have ever seen...

Author: By Brenton Welling, | Title: H. M. S. Pinafore | 4/15/1950 | See Source »

...only one who believed him was Sparrow Saltskin, "Half Hebe 'n half crazy," a petty grifter and dog thief who adored Frankie because the Dealer was kind to him and protected him. ("Guys who think they can rough me up, they wake up wit' the cats lookin' at 'em." In an alley, he meant.) Frankie really liked Sparrow: "I'd trust him with my sister all night. Provided, of course, she wasn't carryin' more than 35 cents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Lower Depths | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

...Hungarian March, "Rakoczy"Berlioz *Ballet Suite Rameau-Motti Minuet from "Platee"--Musette Tambourin from "Fetes d'Hebe" *Scherzo from Octet Mendelssohn *Prelude to "Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg Wagner *Piano Concerto to No. 2, in F minor Chopin Soloist: ELIZABETH TRAVIS *"Show Boat," Selection Kern *Fugato on a Well-Known Theme McBride "Thunder and Lighting," Polka Strauss

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AT THE POPS | 5/15/1940 | See Source »

...been widely, if not wisely, admired for its daring fantasy. The picture contains a scene in which Neptune uses his trident to frighten the patrons of a deluxe Manhattan swimming pool, an episode in which Bacchus finds modern whiskey so fiery it makes him belch, a passage in which Hebe discovers a container full of paper cups. Alan Mowbray plays the inventor with admirable presence of mind. Meg, the stone girl who becomes his accomplice when he converts her into flesh & blood, is Florine McKinney. Typical shot: Venus de Milo experimenting with a pair of arms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Mar. 4, 1935 | 3/4/1935 | See Source »

...currently common, uncomplimentary terms for Jew, apparently too modern for Roget's are: hebe (collegiate and journalese), kike (general). Cleveland Jews call Cleveland Heights, where many co-religionists reside, "Kike's Peak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Opprobriousness Deleted | 9/22/1930 | See Source »

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