Word: rolande
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Mrs. Winthrop W. Aldrich and Mrs. Roland Harriman were in pigtails the Manhattan citadel of female educational snobbishness which their respective parents favored was Miss Spence's School. For 30 years Clara B. Spence put her cloistered young ladies through the drawing room, taught them enough "current events" to provide conversation at their debuts, took them to Central Park to study birds and trees...
...Died. Roland, the last sea elephant in captivity; in the Berlin...
Last fortnight there were in captivity just two sea elephants, both in Germany. One day in the Hanover Zoo, four-ton Goliath III sighed through his dewlap snout and died. Forty-eight hours later in the Berlin Zoo, Roland flipped up his toenails, sagged his small head into his mountainous jowls and died...
Goliath and Roland were Southern Sea Elephants or Elephant Seals (Mirunga patagonica), an immensely overgrown genus of seal whose adult males grow a short, useless proboscis. They breed on lonely southern islands, the Falklands off South America, Kerguelen off the Cape of Good Hope, the Macquaries off Australia, commute to the Antarctic ice pack. On the breeding beaches they flip sand on their backs and sleep, not to be disturbed even by man. Lazy and languid bulls fight with none of the ferocity of smaller seals. Delivered alive at a zoo, they fetch from $5,000 to $10,000 apiece...
...showing in Boston and also is reviewed in this issue. "Tobacco Road" as we all know is Erskine Caldwell's dark notes on the South and it begins to look as if New York is the only art center of the nation sufficiently tolerant to allow it. Roland Young is about the only excuse for "A Touch of Brimstone" even if the title is clever. Maxwell Anderson's "Winterset" is a poetic dramatization of the underworld as it looks to our Mr. Anderson; a very touching and quite superior play...