Word: penguin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Crude slapstick has taken over stage and screen at the Keith Boston. "Spook House," better half of a double feature, is a four relier in which bedroomless newlyweds and aroller skating penguin run Dead Pan Buster Keaton a grotesque rat race. All the old Mack Sonnet gags are used--only the lack of a custard pic tossing scene indicates that the show wasn't filmed twenty years ago. On the stage, Hollywood's Three Stooges appear and disappear in person...
...WAYS OF WAR-Penguin Books (25?at newsstands...
Like a zoo, the mammoth Main Hall (where engineers have installed an anti-museum-fatigue invention: two pyramid-like seats topped by Beniamino Bufano's sculptured animals, penguin and bear) encloses a large central pit, where, hacking away at a huge granite head of Leonardo, stands Sculptor Fred Olmsted. Helen Forbes works on an egg tempera. Dudley Carter, ex-logger and machinist, hews away mightily on 20-foot redwood sculptures with a double-bitted ax. German-born Herman Volz and 16 assistants work on a huge mosaic. All around the hall, busy as mud-daubers, miscellaneous painters, sculptors, weavers...
This was the first capture of a British warship since 1815, when H. M. S. Penguin was taken by U. S. S. Hornet off Tristan da Cunha a month after U. S. S. Constitution took two other British warships in a single battle...
...CASE FOR FEDERAL UNION-W. B. Curry-Penguin...