Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nominate the McKellar-Reynplds-Chandler "island acquisitions" discussions as the best comedy script of the year...
...Shaw shared the comforts of her big Long Island home with 23 Pekinese, named Yummie, Fuzz Wuzz, Cuddles, Baby Dear, Honey Child, etc. She also had a Brussels griffon, a black Persian cat and a dachshund named Poopchin. When Mrs. Shaw died last month, her will asked an old friend, Mrs. Ita Mae McGuire of Napanee, Ont., to adopt her 26-pet menagerie, left her a trust fund of $100,000 for their comfort...
Last week Mrs. McGuire, owner of 40 dogs herself, hurried to Long Island to condole with Poopchin and the Pekes. To congratulations on her own good fortune she said stiffly that the $100,000 would be "no more than enough" to take care of the pets in the style to which they had been accustomed. "Each one will travel to Napanee in his own box," she explained. "And they'll have their own beds and toys. I'll have to have a moving van for the trip. And of course I promised Mrs. Shaw that they...
...play which failed to open, he proceeded to parts in six quick flops and a hit, Saroyan's Time of Your Life. This in turn led to his Hollywood start in a bit part with Hepburn and Tracy in Woman of the Year. He established himself in Wake Island. Greenwich Village is the first picture in which he has sung and danced. Next role: Captain Purvis in A Bell for Adano...
...Silence." Principal mouthpiece for the new Auden is Shakespeare's Prospero, the magician in The Tempest, who in his old age throws his books of magic into the sea, breaks his wand, dismisses his wonder-working servant Ariel, abandons his magic island for the mild humdrum of everyday life. In Auden's version, Prospero's farewell to Ariel represents the mature intellectual's adieu to the glorious but unreal life of personal fantasy...