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...Rabbit was the brainchild of Beatrix Potter, a gentle English lady skilled in telling stories that children really like, and illustrating them in sly effective watercolors. First published in 1904, Beatrix Potter's Peter Rabbit books have sold by the hundreds of thousands, are cherished by adults who spurn her imitators. Besides the Tale of Peter Rabbit, other Potter best sellers include: Tale of Benjamin Bunny, Tailor of Gloucester, Tale of Two Bad Mice, Tale of Jemima Puddleduck...
...inmate, a twittering astrologist. a blundering social worker, a moody "Professor" (Eduardo Ciannelli), a baleful headmistress (Olga Baclanova ) who keeps everything under control until she falls in love with the Professor. It takes almost the whole third act for her to tell him her feelings, for him to spurn her politely...
...quoted statistics to show ministers' children out number all others in Who's Who. Educators searched deeper for significant causes, found: 1) Bishop Simeon Arthur Huston, a cultured gentleman, has been (1917-19) President of the State Board of Education, Wyo., but had grieved when he saw his son spurn the classics for science; 2) an uncle and grandfather, both scholars, are also plant breeders, interested in science; 3) Winner Huston, unlike most of the candidates has traveled extensively, following his father from parish to parish, spending six years in Cheyenne, Wyo., two in Baltimore, four in San Antonio...
...given by Chandler for practically the entire cast. Does Chandler react as" one might have expected from Mother Girard's warnings? He does not. He is happy in the happiness of the lovers. But by this time the audience has been prepared for his magnanimity by seeing him spurn a splendidly groomed and golden mistress (Verree Teasdale) for the less lustrous Geraldine, a noble act described in the play as a "virgin complex." The audience is likewise not surprised when, deprived of Geraldine, he goes honeymooning with her sister Elizabeth, the clever virgin. The veteran Robert Warwick is properly...
...complicated misanthropy which enabled him, his interpreters declared, to love the public and spurn humanity, did not preclude certain trifling investigation of the tenderer emotions. One such investigation?attempted in 1918 with Mildred Harris?ended in a divorce. She charged that he starved her, got drunk, hit hard. To down the scurrile rumor that he had been seared by the red-hot lips of Actress Pola Negri, he last year married (in Mexico) his leading lady, Lita Grey, aged...