Word: herons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hollywood neither wanted nor expected him to be King Heron; it was just that all the frogs in the swamp were good & tired of King...
...picture is not one of those adults-only affairs in which women in heron plumes and wolves in waxed whiskers prowl after each other on divans. It is a straight forward, dramatically naive little lecture in which the syphilis-nicked pilot of a bomber-and the audience- are told some practical facts about syphilis, its effects, its prevention. The Legion is quite correct in observing that it does not mention the most practical method of prevention, continence, yet some of its facts are well worth circulating...
...whom Madame Schumann-Heink once "discovered" as a caroling Jersey cop) is something new and convincing in villainy. He looks like neither a swindling person or the unconfessed byblow of a neanderthal rake, but like the sort of hard-soft, period Irishman he is supposed to be. Julia Heron's interiors look as if people really had lived in them. The direction (by skilled Oldtimer William K. Howard), the acting, the production are fluent, alert and reciprocal...
...John's player who commanded most of the crowd's attention was long-necked, jut-elbowed Center Harry ("Big Boy") Boykoff, 6 ft. 9, the tournament's tallest. When the Big Boy took wing up-court, he looked like a heron in full flight. When it came to playing basketball, there was nothing awkward about Coach Lapchick's team-or about the way Boykoff reached above the basket to bat out opponents' certain scores...
...Trouble."* Of the 2,000-odd fighters in the Rising, many are dead, others have disappeared. Among the survivors to whom the medal went were Prime Minister Eamon de Valera, three of his Ministers, Opposition Leader William T. Cosgrave, Minister to the U.S. Robert Brennan, Protestant Labor Leader Archie Heron, Actor Arthur Shields...