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...traitor, a letter from Beelzebub in one hand, a mask in the other, with the devil behind him (see cut). A small boy hidden in the wagon's false bottom pulled strings to keep the puppet dancing, to the delight of jeering Philadelphians. In 1781, when Colonel Tench Tilghman galloped into Philadelphia with the news that Cornwallis had surrendered, Peale promptly turned the windows of his house into an illuminated display. He filled the windows with colored cartoons of Washington and Rochambeau, titled SHINE VALIANT CHIEFS, and took the third story to spell out: FOR OUR ALLIES, HUZZA! HUZZA...
Sayward is one of those magnetic women who holds her family in an unbreakable hoop of love. She forgives Portius' drinking and wenching because she is awed by his education and believes in his essential goodness; she closes her eyes to the fact that little Rosa Tench is Portius' child, and she expands with pride when Portius makes a fine speech. Portius is a stout character himself. He survives the cholera, though his only medicine is red pepper and asafetida pills, because he is too "preserved in alcohol to die." When he becomes a judge, agnostic and prankster...
Surprise No. 1 was sprung by Retiring-President Russell Wilford Tench who suggested that traditional requirements of two years of college and four years of dental school be lowered for "sub-dentists" to practice among the poorer sections of the populace. "With only three years' dental school training, and no predental college courses," said Dr. Tench, "we could attract the boy who might otherwise stay on in his town and become a mechanic at the garage. [He could perform] simple fillings...
Merlyn's method of education is to put the Wart through more metamorphoses than a moth ever dreamed of. Ffft! The Wart is a fish, learning self-preservation from a tench and a pike. Presto! He is a hawk, learning bravery. He becomes a snake, learning 20th-century theories of evolution, a badger, learning about adaptation, an owl, learning how trees and stones talk (so slowly that they could be heard only if time passed at the rate of 30 years per minute...
...actors who looked like Colonial revolutionists instead of a table full of diners at Sardi's theatrical restaurant. And they had to get actors who could speak Playwright Anderson's semi-versified lines with conviction. Stanley Ridges is a particularly happy choice for the character of hard bitten Lucifer Tench. No less happy is the casting of Margalo Gillmore as the full-blown, romantic Mary Philipse. As Washington, Philip Merivale is close to perfect. Mr. Merivale is the greatest cloak-swinger on the U. S. stage. He swung one in The Road to Rome (1927-28). He swung another...