Word: lionesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...over the stage. A yellow scrim hangs in front, with sunflowers traced on it. As Tharon Musser's lighting changes, suggestions of a lion's head appear; and shortly some slinky jazz with a perky clarinet over a tonic-dominant ostinato ushers in the Lion (Ted Graeber) with a lioness (Jane Farnol). The two animals perform a semidance pantomime, until the Lion gets rid of his partner. Shaw's script calls for no lioness, but this seems a quite acceptable bit of directorial padding. When alone, the Lion does some pushups, indulges in a few boxing-ring victory gestures...
...fear of man and begin to accept him as an equal in every respect. Occasionally, after such "imprinting" or "assimilation," as animal behaviorists call these processes, male animals regard their keeper as a sexual rival. A male lion, for example, usually sits benignly by while the keeper strokes his lioness. But if the keeper shows affection for the lioness while she is in heat, the male may rear up, roar menacingly and act as if he is ready to tear his cage-and his keeper-apart...
Colorful birds flit around in spacious aviaries. An open-air zoo has monkeys, emus and a lioness with her cubs. Fra grant flowers line the streets. This is the "City of God," eleven miles from Sao Paulo in Brazil. With a school, a hospital and all other things for the material needs of its 1,200-odd inhabitants, it is the headquarters community built by Brazil's liveliest and fastest-growing bank: Banco Brasileiro de Descontos, or Bradesco as it is commonly known...
...same collection, he could be familial and tender: Gone now the baby's nurse/a lioness who ruled the roost/ and made the Mother cry. Yet even in his more resigned moments, he really seemed to distrust tranquillity: Cured, I am frizzled, stale and small...
Part of her secret lies in the fact that she commands a physical plasticity beyond the magic of makeup men. She has conquered more than 130 roles, from the giddy 13-year-old Natasha in War and Peace, to the 61-year-old lioness in The Lion in Winter, to the steely title role in Giraudoux's Judith. Her voice is all champagne in the comedies, darkens to cognac in the heavier roles. She is a body actress, ruling the stage with grace and power and actually seeming to lean into her lines...