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Anyone's Guest. In Wenatchee, Wash., Mrs. Shelby Thrift sued Grocery Owner Roy Duvaul for $2,500 damages after having been pecked on the leg by a rooster which she claimed the grocer harbored "knowing it to be of a vicious and mischievous disposition," heard Duvaul insist that the bird was not his, it just "showed up at the store and hung around...
...ever buy the notion of creating such a thing. Eighty-five dollars bought a rocking horse, carved by some boy's loving father, which had doubtless earned over a million dollars in fantasy races. Best in show, perhaps, was an iron weather vane in the shape of a rooster, presented by an appropriately named antiquarian, Myra Tinklepaugh. "They're hard to find," Mrs. Tinklepaugh briskly allowed. "I'm dickering for another one right now, not far away, only nobody wants to climb up to get it without insurance...
...years. This used a small orchestra of 15 or so, and they were able to play with the requisite precision. The work is a ballet-burlesque, brilliantly choreographed after Balanchine, wonderfully costumed, and impeccably danced by Todd Bolender, Francisco Moncion, Herbert Bliss and John Mandia as a fox, rooster, cat and ram, respectively. Their singing counterparts, also excellent, were tenors John MeCollum and John King, baritone Robert Gay, and bass Herbert Gibson...
...speak, with an unposted letter bearing the extra regulation fee before the too late box of the general postoffice of human life [feeling] a twinge of sciatica in my left glutear muscle ..." The producers may also have trouble with some of the animal actors (including an egg-laying rooster) called for in Joyce's script. Sample stage direction: The bulldog growls, his scruff standing, a gobbet of pig's knuckle between his molars through which rabid scums pit tie dribbles. ··· More than 1,000 Social Registerites and hangers-on clanked, rustled and jangled into Manhattan...
...himself at times got kept out of sight in his corner. The whole play takes place in 1916-17, and the stage action centers on Cordelia's engagement and marriage to Tobacco Heir Angier Duke. Angier, seemingly a weak and timid mouse, slowly emerges as a tough little rooster with a mind-and a body-of his own. And Angier's sharp-tongued Southern mother seems at times less like a North Carolina Duke than an Alabama Bankhead...