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...enough to explain: "They're following a little man no bigger than a boy-he's got hair all over his body and a long white beard, and claws instead of fingers." The mothers' hearts froze. For this, they knew at once, was Tikoloshe-the evil sprite who tempts South African black men to murder and worse (TIME, Feb. 20), who has the power to lure children away with tales of a marvelous play land, which leaves their brains addled for life. The mothers piled into the church as fast as they could hustle...
...Broadway fantasy Ondine, Actress Audrey Hepburn, winner of the best-acting "Tony" award for her role, played the part of a water sprite with fatal charms. Actor Mel Ferrer was cast as a mortal knight who could not resist her despite her sting, finally married her and learned that it was quite a way to die. Broadway kept hearing that Ferrer was not afraid of Audrey offstage either, but when Ondine closed this summer, the couple went their separate ways. Audrey headed for the Swiss resort of Bürgenstock to rest. Ferrer wound up on the Mediterranean island...
Actress Kerr added to the season's fine stockpile of feminine oomph. Heading the list was Audrey Hepburn, who, as the mermaid of Jean Giraudoux's rather waterlogged Ondine, proved a sprite that never was on sea or land. Equally near (though never under) the water, Shirley Booth was the principal lure of By the Beautiful Sea, while France's Jeanmaire brought something boyish, girlish and impish to the lumpish Girl in Pink Tights...
...especially 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...
...theory, the famed La Motte Fouque romance should suit the author of The Madwoman of Challlot to perfection. Giraudoux could delicately regild the tale of a sprite who loved and wed and herself became a mortal, only to return from a dismaying world to the deep, her knightly husband dead of her farewell kiss. Giraudoux could savor its melancholy turns and bitter twists, its clash between innocence and worldliness, its sense of mankind's dreams of perfection and descent into reality. And Giraudoux's own resolute but compassionate worldliness does touch Ondine with glints and flecks of gold...