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...GIRL WITH THE SWANSDOWN SEAT (263 pp.)-Cyril Pearl-Bobbs-Merrill...
...half, I Married An Angel pins all its hopes on being fluffy, fleecy, feathery swansdown. And fluffy, fleecy, feathery indeed is Actress Zorina with her pale face, charming figure, dainty dancing and foolproof accent; never more so than in the scene where she is visited by her sister angels from Heaven and floats across the stage cooing their names: Clarrinda, Rosa-leena, Seronel-la, Arabella. In the same mood are at least two of Composer Rodgers' best tunes: I Married An Angel (a natural for the hurdy-gurdies) and Spring Is Here...
...Swansdown Cake Flour...
...wheels with the curve-like ripple of a bloodhound's shoulder-thews; they began where most mudguards stop and curved insolently toward each other far out against the bumper, where the four frosted eyes of the car glare at the daylight. Inside the steel shell was a boudoir of swansdown upholstery finished in velvet of Cleopatra green, a color sleepier than the Nile at twilight, and above the door handles of antique bronze four rosewood panels were inlaid with little ivory panels showing a sedan-chair of the 16th Century, a Pickwickian stagecoach, a Japanese rickshaw and an Egyptian whatnot...
Congress, with the narrow bigotry which one might expect from such a body, has not yet passed an international copyright law. Perhaps it thinks that authors have no rights which other people are bound to protect. Perhaps Mr. Swansdown is the main difficulty. I don't know, because I never was sent to Congress and never expect...