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Sociologists and psychologists seek her "expert guidance" and learn, from the filly's mouth, that she likes privacy, pinups, shelves for doodads, lolling interminably at telephones and in bathtubs. She also likes "slumber parties" (which are talkative rather than slumberous) with wolf-cubs whistling below the windows. She does not care to look old or sophisticated, uses simple cosmetics (but pays elaborate attention to shades of lipstick), and saves her dignity for formal dances. She reads much in magazines, little in newspapers or books. She is hep to new records and takes an occasional turn at baby-sitting...
music; known Slumber and waking; loved; gone...
...spirit of unabashed poltroonery that has become his principal stock in trade. From the moment he pokes his head through an introductory title to announce that he plays a coward to the moment when he gazes apprehensively at a gibbet being erected in his honor and murmurs queasily, "Slumber lumber," Hope makes it clear that his gallantry is mighty small-caliber. When his beautiful co-captive (Virginia Mayo) on the pirate ship snatches away the protection of her wide skirt and asks him in the thick of battle. "Are you man or mouse?" Hope turns to the nearest mouse...
...whenever he had a time of slight alleviation of pain. . . . He discussed problems and personalities of the psychoanalytic movement in America with full knowledge of the details. . . . The greatest part of the time we ... stayed in the garden and looked over the lawn where he rested, sometimes in light slumber, sometimes caressing his chow who did not leave his side for a moment-..." He died of cancer and heart disease...
Born in Paris, Cécile Chaminade started composing as a child, dedicated her first works (a group of nocturnes and "slumber songs") to her pet dogs and cat. She took lessons in composition from Benjamin Godard. Always a facile melodist, Chaminade soon rolled up a list of over 550 compositions, which stand in the same relation to Frederic Chopin as strawberry soda does to cognac. Many of them (The Flatterer, Pas des Amphores, La Zingara, Valse Caprice, Air de Ballet, etc.) got an international reputation...