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Carefully packed in a big bronze kettle were toys that modern children would appreciate: wooden horses, one of them winged, a lion fighting a bull, a yoked ox. Perhaps the Phrygian child had been a "feeding problem" and had to be cajoled into eating his meals. At any rate, his tomb was furnished with special dishes for mealtime entertainment. One pitcher was like a goat's head with the horns for handles. Other vessels were modeled after geese, stags or rams...
...year-old Judy Garland into U.S. homes for the first time. The E. Y. Harburg-Harold Arlen score (Over the Rainbow, We're Off to See the Wizard) sounded as fresh and enchanting as ever. To kick off the movie, Buffoon Bert Lahr, who played the craven lion in the film, reminisced to Judy's ten-year-old daughter, Liza Minnelli, about the good old days at MGM. If the movie suffered in its new setting, it was mainly because less than 1% of the U.S.'s 37 million TV sets are equipped for color. Otherwise...
Other local entertainments include "Everybody Loves Me" at the McCarter Theatre and "Androcles and the Lion," sponsored by Theatre Intime at the Murray. The "Solid Gold Cadillac" is at the Morris Playhouse...
ROOSEVELT: THE LION AND THE Fox (553 pp.)-James MacGregor Burns-Harcourf, Brace...
Williams College Professor James Burns has a more elusive fellow to trap in Roosevelt: the Lion and the Fox, and he knows it. Burns wears his objectivity on both sleeves. Though his F.D.R. is not noticeably different from the composite constructed in a score of other books, his book is more vividly told and more sharply dramatized, has risen high on bestseller lists since its publication three months ago. Burns quotes with approval what Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, retired and 92, said of F.D.R.: "A second-class intellect. But a first-class temperament!" Nothing in this biography contradicts the judgment...