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NOYES (Alfred) Tales of the Mermaid Tavern...
Other phase of Milles is jolly, lighthearted, northern Gothic. A good illustration was erected last year on the Stockholm waterfront. Massive, of polished rose granite, it shows little influence on Milles by his teacher Rodin. Two figures, a merman and his mermaid, intertwine in funny fat folds. She is doting; he, looking like the pneumatic Michelin Tire man ("Bibendum"), is highly amused...
...ruled out another picture because "The wearing of German military helmets by an army of cats which oppose an army of mice is offensive to national dignity" (TIME, July 21). Canadian censors ruled against another brand of sound cartoon because a leering fish in it writhed up to a mermaid and slapped her on the thigh. But censorship is only a form of public testimony that Mickey Mouse and other animated cartoons are an important and permanent element of international amusement. Sergei Eisenstein, famed Russian director, has said: "They are America's most original contribution to culture...
...MERMAID AND CENTAUR-Rupert Hughes-Harpers...
...Baker Library of the Business School and recalls the part once played by that institution in the social and commercial life of Boston. The edifice, illustrated above, was built in 1808 for the unprecedented sum of half a million dollars as a sort of merchants' exchange. As the Mermaid Tavern was the meeting place of Shakespeare's circle, and the St. James Coffee House the convivial headquarters of the Whigs in the time of Queen Anne, the Exchange Coffee House in the early part of the nineteenth century was a rendezvous of the leaders of maritime Boston. The names over...