Word: sirenic
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...Lisbon fall, how came Rome to stand?"). It was widely expected that London too would be shaken for its sins. Coachloads of gentry left for the country. Others, in the spirit of Mrs. Miniver, carried on. and ladies stitched "earthquake gowns" (a preview of World War II's "siren suits...
...door slammed open to admit a wintry blast of air and a man with a baby in his arms. "Please," he muttered. "Out there. My wife. More women and children. More people." Then he fainted. The policeman cranked his old-fashioned telephone, muttered a few words. A siren wailed and within minutes the able-bodied men and women of Rechnitz were mobilized to aid another group of refugees from the other side of the Hungarian border, offering succor, shelter, food, warmth and welcome...
...staging this Old Vic's Troilus, Tyrone Guthrie has swept the décor and atmosphere of the play some 30 centuries forward. He has boldly evoked an Edwardian world full of prance and panoply, his Trojans very British, his Greeks very German. He has shown a siren Helen lolling against a cream-and-gold piano; he makes Pandarus frock-coated and effeminate, Thersites a disheveled cockney war photographer. He might find license for his anachronisms in the play itself, where Hector quotes Aristotle...
...exasperatedly says: "You've already got a choo-choo record." Then she scans the rack, and a nostalgic smile crosses her face as she picks up Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. The child sees his chance for a choo-choo record going glimmering, starts up a siren wail. For a minute, it looks like a stalemate. But the conclusion was never in real doubt. "All right, so we'll get both of them," sighs mother, and plunks down 50? for the pair...
Married. Diana Lynn (real name: Dolores Loehr), 30, dimpled movie ingenue; and Mortimer Hall, 32, president and general manager of Hollywood radio station KLAC; both for the second time (his first: Cinema Siren Ruth Roman); in Tijuana, Mexico...