Word: satyrize
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...interested in your April 5 references to Sadakichi Hartmann in Gene Fowler's book [Minutes of the Last Meeting]. As I knew him 20-odd years ago, Hartmann was an off-beat character who ... resembled an aged water sprite. And much of the time he imitated an old satyr aprowl. At times he could be utterly beguiling. At others, a deadbeat...
...George Axelrod, who wrote last season's hit, The Seven-Year Itch, will be back with another comedy called Pffft, which he describes as "the heart-warming chronicle of a happy divorce." Sidney (Detective Story) Kingsley is hard at work on a comedy about "sex and laughter" called Satyr's Dance...
...Whole Gamut. Always reaching for more laughs, Berle has even tried stooping for them. At Chicago's Palace in 1933, he broke records for five weeks but he outraged the late Chicago Daily News Critic Lloyd Lewis, who found him a "blab-mouthed, satyr-eyed kid" who "toys with physiology, pathology and pruriency, tossing them about with all the freedom of a delinquent boy." On television, acutely conscious of his juvenile following and of the strait-laced National Broadcasting Co., Berle keeps it clean...
...while Priapus fiddles with her skirt. A blowsy Ceres helps Apollo hoist cup to lip. Neptune is paired off with Gaea, who holds a quince -the symbol of marriage. Bacchus appears as a child, and his foster father Silenus looks more like a slender ascetic than a roly-poly satyr. Generations of art scholars have wondered...
Married. Roland Young, 60, tweedy, henpecked satyr of prewar cinema (Topper, The Young in Heart); and Dorothy Patience May, 40, British divorcee; each for the second time; in Jersey City...