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Miss Bettis (The Serpent, and Fusima) makes the most of her wonderfully modulated and deep-throated voice. As "the most subtle" Serpent she slightly lingers with superb effect over the sibilants that Shaw carefully placed in her speeches. Tolan (Cain, and Zozim) brings real fire to the role of the world's first transgressor of the Fifth and Sixth Commandments. Moss (Prof. Barnabas, Accountant General, and the Elderly Gentleman) manages to make individual his three well-seasoned men. John Granger (Strephon) and Dorothy Whitney (Chloe) round out the cast...
...ancients, a chimera was a fabulous monster with a lion's head, a serpent's tail and often an extra head in the middle of its back. To the botanist, it means a plant combining growths of differing genetic makeup-usually the result of grafting. Now British medical scientists are discovering human chimeras, in which one person has some of the body cells of another, invariably a twin...
...drama, Iago must seem honest; otherwise Othello becomes a stupid idiot (which he is not), to say nothing of Iago's own wife, Emilia, who only at the very end learns the true nature of her spouse. Drake is right to look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under...
...found and expelled from the academy for drinking on the campus. Jocko's hands are clean because so many others' are dirty; nobody dares to talk for fear of expulsion. After that, the camera watches with morbid fascination as the event, like an evil serpent, tumbles out coil after coil of consequences that ultimately crush the villain. His final lagonies make quite a spectacle...
Died. Miguel Covarrubias, 53, energetic, popular Mexican caricaturist of the '20s and '30s (for Vanity Fair, The New Yorker), painter, anthropologist and art historian (Island of Bali, The Eagle, the Jaguar and the Serpent); of septicemia; in Mexico City...