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...American Museum of Natural History and professor of paleontology at Columbia University, tracks them down and digs out their bones from under the rock layers that hide them. But one dinosaur had always eluded him: the coelophysis, diminutive (3 ft. high, 6 ft. long) but impressive granddaddy of Tyrannosaurus Rex, Brontosaurus and all the other Mesozoic monsters...
Honegger's next project is music for a stage production of Sophocles' Oedipus Rex, with sets by Picasso, to be given in Paris next winter. Said he: "That is, I am trying to work on it. They keep me very busy here-lessons both morning and afternoon with one hour for lunch...
Notably absent from the celebration was rangy Frederic B. Rentschler, chairman of United Aircraft. Modest Fred Rentschler, who did not want to steal any glory from Chance Vought's general manager, Rex Beisel, was on his farm, "Renbrook," in West Hartford. As usual, he had taken home a batch of work. Rentschler's homework has paid United some handsome dividends...
...appropriate title of "Blood and Swash." Another time she is left in the lurch in timehonored tradition by a smooth apple of a cad. played with spirit by George Sanders. The Tierney trips through all her troubles unobtrusively enough, mouthing her dialogue in a soft, damp voice, while Rex Harrison, rough, bluff, and sentimental, steals the show as a happy inhabitant of the happy hunting grounds...
...those English. Except for the lack of a leading actress who is not a nonentity, "The Ghest and Mrs. Muir" might very well be one of the better imports seen around the Exeter Theater, and it is just possible that the American public will take this rare nectar willingly. Rex Harrison could easily be addressing the producer of the picture when he tells Gene Tierney through his beaver, "My dear, I like you. You have spunk...