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...Francis Chelifer, a poet of no mean ability (as Mr Huxley's verses testify), vacationing in Italy from his duties as editor of The Rabbit Fancier's Gazette. One afternoon, while he had been swimming in the Tyrrhenian, the prow of Mrs. Aldwinkle's sailboat had knocked him unconscious. The lady had thereupon made him her guest and, convinced that by conveying him to the palace in her Ro-Ro? she had saved him from drowning, had fallen in love with...
...Australian prison ship which poked its ugly prow from city to city a year ago was decidedly a success as a side show. For a paltry half dollar the most virtuous could experience the fifth and gloom and foul air handed out to eighteenth century culprits. But while there was much exclamation of horror and much averting of noses there was relatively little conception of the ideas upon which such punishment was based...
Tomorrow promises to be a busy day here, for the prow of the University shell will again be forced through the waters of the four-mile course, and in addition the postponed Waiters-Managers ball game will be played, with the probable score 23-2 for the Waiters...
...done many delightful cartoons for Life and other publications. The present show is of his serious work and contains many of the original drawings for Wilderness. The surprising characteristic is the direct and sure technique, with few alterations and erasures. More recent works are Figure Head, the prow of a ship against a black night sea; The House of Dread, The Burial of a Young Man. Kent shows a command of the mysterious-not the deep, impenetrable mystery of the warm Russians, but a clear, clean mystery, inspired by arctic nights and a cold climate...
...only setting used in the production is a sketchy ship, the prow, stern and mast of which are quite naively carried on by the phantom sailors and slipped into place on the stage. Despite this transparency of presentation, a weirdly moving effect is achieved, even when a dead sailor puts his hand up to rock the mast in a storm...