Word: lilith
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bulk of the torch singing in the show is supplied by Joan Abbott, a pneumatic, wild-haired blonde with a cannonball delivery. She reaches her lyric zenith with a number called "Mother Eve" which seems to have Adam's wife confused with her competitor Lilith. More suitable for whistling: "Sleepy Moon...
...imperial spirit of the Victorian age. A new race, which knows not the white man's burden, is at work. The White Hussars no longer drink to Queen and Empress in broken glass, and respect for the Sahib has ceased to awe the naygurs. Lalum, who was like unto Lilith, now imitates her western sisters as she sees them portrayed in the cinema...
...Born Lilith Witt, in Madiun, Java. Lil Dagover was educated, by European schools and tutors, out of her original ambition to marry a pastry cook. One of Germany's four most celebrated cinemactresses, she is 5 ft. 6 in., 103 lb., single...
...Celia," his early love, is dead; the Poet (he sometimes calls himself Adam) tries to keep faithful to her memory, but Lilith often makes him change his mind. He finds other distractions, too, "in the impersonal roundness of a bottle of whiskey orgin." Finally experience, wisdom, old age or lassitude rescues him from the bonds of the flesh: he is lonely but free. Cynical cinema-going readers may not be so sure...
...last week suggested Percival. She rejected Lowell as being fixed to too many notable institutions?the Lowell Observatory, the Lowell Institute, the City of Lowell, etc. etc. Harlow Shapley, director of the Harvard Observatory, suggested Cronos, son of Uranus and father ot Zeus Astrologers recommended variously I sis, Vulcan, Lilith.* Choice lies with the Lowell Observatory...