Word: sylvan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Disney, inspired animation. The undying affection bestowed on him by a young skunk, whom Bambi inadvertently names Flower, is grade-A Disney. His wide-eyed encounter with an old mole who pops up just to pass the time of day (see cut) is typical of a fawnhood full of sylvan surprises...
Handles. In Portland, Ore., two autos had a brush in traffic. The drivers: Vernal Forrest and Sylvan Woods. In Dothan, Ala., Private Harvard Yale Princeton reported for duty. In Washington, Earl Wedding sued for divorce...
After the final curtain Composer Taylor, his quizzical face wreathed in a great smile, appeared before the footlights with Conductor Sylvan Levin. His upraised hand silenced the ovation. "Excuse me just a minute," he said, then leaned over, kissed the wiry little maestro on both cheeks, in true Basque fashion. The audience decided that it had enjoyed itself thoroughly; the critics, that the great American opera was still to be written...
Saint-Saëns: Carnival of the Animals (Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Leopold Stokowski, with Cellist Benar Heifetz, Pianists Jeanne Behrend and Sylvan Levin; Victor; 6 sides; $3.50). Slick virtuoso performance of banal zoological portraits-elephants, cuckoos, tortoises, pianists, critics, the famed "dying" swan...
...prosaic note threatened to put the kibosh on this study in sylvan psychopathology. The Second Army Corps announced plans last week to take over 110,000 acres of Caroline County as a field for maneuvers. The area might include Hampton Manor's Freudian fairyland...