Word: lilith
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lily Sammile is Lilith, the female demon of Jewish folklore, the first wife of Adam, who wanders the world caressing men with her gritty hand, kissing them with her dusty mouth, luring them to the forgotten cemetery shed, which is the Gatehouse of Hell...
...London. The scene of Lilith's present depredations is a place called Battle Hill, a rise of ground with a "strategic situation in regard to London." Through history, Battle Hill has witnessed massacres without number-"mornings and evenings of hardly human sport." Now, "from other periods of its time other creatures could crawl out of death, and invisibly contemplate [the living], awaiting the hour when they should either retire to their own mists or more fully invade the place of the living...
...Zeena (Joan Blondell), the midway's mentalist. He plays cozy with her just long enough to swipe a pseudo-telepathic formula through which he can graduate to the big time. No. 2 is a luscious, loyal dimwit named Molly (Coleen Gray), whom he marries. No. 3 is Lilith (Helen Walker), a pseudo-psychiatrist who outsmarts him at his own racket...
...writer that George Macdonald was best known. His At the Back of the North Wind, and "Curdie" books for children, and such mythopoeic fantasies as The Wise Woman, Lilith and The Phantasies are still reread and remembered by those with a nostalgia for the turn-of-the-century world of nannies, nurseries and button boots. But it was Macdonald's Christian insight that made him great. Says Lewis: "Necessity made Macdonald a novelist, but few of his novels are good and none is very good...
Although the Dramatic Club has two other female performers under contract, their news-value had not yet been exploited up until dress-rehearsal time last night. Miss Jane Bergwall of Simmons is portraying Lilith and Miss Helen McCloskey, who works for the University is cast as a Woman...