Word: lionessed
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...carver. His father was founder and first president of the Memorial Craftsmen. Yet tombstones are not his only interest. He is president and chief benefactor of the Madison (Wis.) Zoo. President Schlimgen could scarcely wait last week for the tombstone convention to close. Back in Madison, Princess, his favorite lioness, had had a litter of cubs...
...ring crowds every waking moment with pomp and circumstance, changes from gorgeous to still more gorgeous uniforms half a dozen times a day, stuffs his fat but mighty-muscled frame with much raw meat, tosses off champagne with gusto and indulges his every whim, from keeping a fond lioness at home to forcing the League of German maidens to make pilgrimages to the shrine of his late first wife who was a Swedish Baroness...
...last week's audience who remembered Milka Ternina, dramatically exciting but plain to look at. Emma Eames had beauty but her emotions were chilled. In pre-War days Olive Fremstad and Geraldine Farrar were rivals for the role. Fremstad, at heart a Wagnerian, played it like a lioness. Farrar's conception was small, a little petulant. After Maria Jeritza's first breath- taking performance in 1921 the part was hers for the ten years she was at the Metropolitan. Upon her leaving, the opera was dropped from the repertoire until last week's revival...
...four old tigers padded through the timber runway into the steel-barred arena, leaped up on their pedestals. Sammy, a big, smart, well-behaved lion of five years, perched just above the runway. Then six of the new beasts came scampering in. Third in line was a winsome young lioness named Bessie...
Millicent Jordan (Ann Andrews) is giving a dinner for Lord & Lady Ferncliffe, visiting social lion and lioness. To it are invited Socialite Dr. & Mrs. Talbot, a brutal financier named Packard and his wife who "speaks pure Spearmint," Carlotta Vance, a dated theatrical beldame, and Larry Renault, a has-been film star. Into this tranche devie, from the minute the invitations are telephoned, steps tragedy. The film star, lover of the Jordans' daughter, is made to realize he is through. Packard ruins Mr. Jordan, determines to get a divorce from his wife, who is in love with Dr. Talbot...