Word: herons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gilbert Heron Miller, who gives good things to our theatre in the grand manner,* fathered the show. The adaptation from the German of Alfred Neumann was done by able Ashley Dukes, Britisher. The scenery, some said the finest factor of the evening, was designed by Norman Bel Geddes. Eminent English Players Leslie Faber and Madge Titheradge were specially imported. Fabulous sums were spent with a devoted flourish. Few men would take such risks. Mr. Miller escapes with every honor. The Patriot is a production to be respected deeply, to be seen by many people with great interest, to be regretted...
...Dutch. He feared the Spanish. "Dishwater," he said, sticking out his tongue at a picture of Rousseau's. The best collection of his work is in the Institute of Chicago-22 large canvases, gift of Edward B. Butler who paid $30,000 for his Home of the Heron. George Inness Jr. is not represented...
...furious decades his impetuous voice and heron-like countenance were heard and seen in the thickest of thick fighting, plot and counterplot, through jungles, over the lofty Peruvian sierras, among the Caribbean Islands; until Venezuela and New Granada were liberated as the republic of Colombia; until upper Peru became Bolivia (1825) and the rest of that country was a free republic...
Other familiar fables are recognized: the rabbit who slew a lion by showing him his rival in a well (on the principle of Aesop's dog-and-bone tale) ; the gluttonous heron that was strangled by a crab; the mice that gnawed elephants free; the bird with the golden dung (goose of golden eggs) ; the ass in the tiger skin. Translator Ryder's performance is best judged by inspection of the neat economy of some of the interlarded jingles...
...funny if you are an aquatic bird (duck, heron, egret, gallinule, spoonbill, ibis, bittern crane) and, having flown down to Florida for the winter, find your favorite lagoon drained dry. You have worked up a raging appetite flapping your way over New York grain fields, Pennsylvania coal fields, Virginia tobacco fields and Southern cotton fields. You sight the palm-tufted everglades, set your wings to plane down, and what does your watering beak encounter? Minnows, frogs, juicy bulbs, slimy, succulent crawfish? No. There are pipelines, dredges, real estate signs, empty cut-plug tins, discarded overalls, splintered flasks, old shoes, sapling...