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...menace, are worth noting. . . . Production remained at a fairly steady level of three litters a year . . . averaging 2% kittens a litter. . . . This is regarded as a war effort far exceeding that of. any other belligerent cat in the Allied camp and may be favorably compared to the output of Katinka Pusskin, champion mother cat of Russia and Heroine of the Soviet Union...
Chauve-Souris of 1943 (produced by Leon Greanin) stirred up memories rather than reactions. It evoked the gay Chauve-Souris revues of the '20s, when the Parade of the Wooden Soldiers seemed the most rollicking of tunes and Katinka the most "Rahsshan" of maidens, and the late Master of Ceremonies Nikita Balieff talked unbelievably dreadful English with unforgettably droll results. Katinka and the Wooden Soldiers are still on hand, but Balieff unhappily...
Trend's February issue reaches such heights only through its, poets led by Katinka Loeser, an alumna of Chicago, currently studying aviation. Her "Modern Language" combines in sixteen short lines a concise explanation of the problems and techniques of the modern writers with a poetic expression coming as near the lyric as the static quality of intellectual poetry will permit. This same bound lyricism, gaining in immediacy and intellectual intenseness what it loses in fluid song, characterizes all the better poems of the issue. Helen Wieselburg's "Starway," and Creighton Gilbert's "War Poem" again display the advantages as well...
When in need of more child workers than they have whelped themselves, tough Rumanian gypsies and hard-fisted peasants sometimes buy a "child slave" from professional kidnappers. Such a snatcher was feeble, wheezing Katinka Barbalate, 35, who was finally caught at lessy last week. Police nabbed her on a blanket charge of "kidnapping hundreds of children and selling them to gypsies and peasants...
Third-degree technique in Rumania is Grade A, and coughing Katinka soon confessed to 25 specific kidnappings and sales involving girls aged between 7 and 9. Chief factor in the slaver's long-successful activities, police said, was her system of breaking the kidnapped children's morale and cowing them so thoroughly thai after being "sold" few of the "slaves" dared to run away. "I kept the children locked up in lonely houses and 'trained' them in my own way to be good workers," confessed tuberculous Katinka Barbalate. "Yes, I tortured them...