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Last week this tune, a pretty hot riff in four-four time, key of C, purled and bubbled from the beak of a little silver-colored bird in the lobby of the Time & Life Building in Manhattan's Rockefeller Center. Every hour, on the hour, from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., the little bird sashayed from side to side, opened its beak and sang its song. The little bird's perch was in a wooden tree which overhung the head of a startled-looking horseman (see cut), also carved of wood. The whole thing formed the central figure...
...annoyed-looking faun and a pleased, curious-eyed nymph. When he had finished, Sculptor Milles claimed he had produced the largest piece of wood carving ever seen in the U. S., one of the three largest in the Occidental world. But that was not enough. Sculptor Milles wanted the bird in his statue to move and sing. With the help of engineers from Rockefeller Center's Museum of Science and Industry, he contrived a clockwork mechanism to make the bird flap its wings, sashay back & forth, and open its beak, and a phonograph mechanism to play a record...
John (Give'em the bird) Robbins and Fire Dog Lyman bore the brunt of the cortical punishment absorbed by the 14 Plymptonsters, but it was Jack Ballantine who robbed his teammates of the glories for the evening by his delicate definition of the phrase "on the make...
...feature of the entertainment came when, as another Consequence, bland, dinner-jacketed Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd (in front of 1,500 invitees) was prevailed upon to thrust his head into a golden canary cage and allow himself to be fed crackers while he quavered "I'm Only A Bird In A Gilded Cage...
...Wrath, The Long Voyage Home). It was not a picture to be disregarded or forgotten. But it was distinctly non-Hollywood. Whether Welles and R. K. O. had a surebox-office bust or a sensation that would stir up more fun in the next six weeks than Russell Bird well stirred up for Gone With the Wind, depended in great measure on how wrathfully Columnist Parsons got up from her seat...