Word: mermaids
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...corner of the ultramodern glass and stone library, a group of Indian warriors in full headdress proffered bunches of cigars. There was a dumpy "Punch," a tailor's gentleman in checked coat and torpedo beard, a handsome mermaid from the stern of an old sailing ship and a jaunty figure labeled "Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines" extolling "World's Fair Cut Plug -Five Cents." Said a student engineer: "This is the kind of art I can appreciate...
...mermaid whose picture had blossomed in almost every paper in the U.S., it was very humiliating...
...Mermaid & Dragon. Runners-up to these leaders are Pixie Playtime, on Manhattan's WPIX, featuring Peter W. Pixie, assisted by a Mae West-like mermaid and a witch who tortures victims by telling them old radio jokes; Little Bordy, a puppet disc jockey; the Suzari Marionettes on ABC's The Singing Lady; Du Mont's woodenheaded Oky-Doky; and Mr. Do-Good and Judy Splinters, a pair of West Coast contenders. Du Mont's popular Small Fry Club, which has previously depended on animated cartoons, movies and interminable commercials, is next week adding to its cast...
...break of your life. I want you to play Sophie in The Razor's Edge." Betty knew that it was a part for an actress (it won Anne Baxter an Oscar) and not for her. She coolly refused it. "People would expect me to end up as a mermaid and rise with seaweed in my hair," she said, "and that wouldn't be very good for your picture, would...
Scripter-Producer Nunnally Johnson has a pleasant wit, but in this show, most of the time, it is only working in second gear; and at best, he is no magician. In simple justice, the question arises: Would anyone know, any better, what to do with a mermaid...