Word: owl
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...eyebrow at such new arrivals noted a few chinks in her armor, but to the gaping crowd of plain citizens she seemed indeed a well-armed lady. Her utterance was racier than classic, and the bird of wisdom on her shoulder looked more like a mockingbird than an owl. But she was obviously a messenger of the gods, and Publishers Simon & Schuster announced her as such. The Unpossessed is the latest news from the U. S. "intellectual" front. Far from being a funny story (except perhaps to those who visit asylums to get a good laugh), it would...
...Owl...
...over it. Mrs. Garson hurried up, agreed that it looked like a mop. To Vibrato it looked like a warm hideaway. He hopped out of his mistress' muff, tried to bury himself in its folds. Only then did the two women discover that the "mop" was an exhausted owl...
They named the owl Manhattan, put it in Vibrato's cage for company. When the ship docked in New York last week both of them wanted to keep it. The ship's captain, called to arbitrate, tossed a shilling, sent the bird to Staten Island. Ornithologists identified the bird, which the ship's crew had called an "ice owl," as an American hawk owl, a dark, small-eyed, falcon-like creature slightly smaller than a crow, which breeds in the Arctic, sometimes winters as far south as the U. S., never goes...
...night is a huge success. A handsome and unusually rowdy adaptation of the musicomedy that played in Manhattan last winter, Take a Chance repeats most of the sketches that were successful on the stage. Good new songs: It's Only a Paper Moon, I'm a Night Owl. The Mad Game (Fox) contains interesting data on professional kidnappers. They speak of their victims as "mental cases," incarcerate them in a suburban sanitarium, where the "resident physician" is the most sinister member of their band. Naturally the kidnappers in The Mad Game receive their just deserts. A kindly beer...