Word: goddess
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...causes. She can sell diesel engines, grapefruit and trips to foreign lands. She can sell everything from diapers to cemetery plots, aspirin to Zonite. She is a billion-dollar baby with a billion-dollar smile and a billion-dollar salesbook in her billion-dollar hand. She is the new goddess of plenty...
...filled by a new rite-a worship of The Rules and the strange gods behind them. 'No, I'm afraid we're right out of those-we're waiting for our quota,' says the stationer, with a mixture of exasperation and reverence for the goddess Quota that was once accorded by anxious Greek farmers to Demeter, bringer of harvests. 'I'm full up now-only eight standing inside-I can't take any more,' chants the bus conductor, with all the complacency of a Calvinist separating the few elect from...
...plot unfolds in the fabulous Kuder mansion (of course on Broadway), where the footmen wear burgundy, the bellhops chartreuse, and the various rooms are connected with an intercom television network. Old Kuder goes after Ludviga with some very fancy small talk: "You are a goddess, I am a millionaire, so we are equals. I wish I were younger but immortality is one thing you can't buy even in America." Meanwhile, Dollar Princess Jenny plots to throw her father out of his business and get all the money for herself. She sings: "Love is no good at the bank...
...Ariel of Jan Farrand is always light, and gay, as "it" should be. Miss Farrand is wise and nimble, and keeps within her character except one time when she briefly impersonated the goddess Ceres. Her Ariel is as pleasant as her zephyr-like voice. Ferdinand and Miranda, the ideal lovers, are ideally cast and suitably played by Miles Morgan and Naomi Raphaelson. Miss Raphaelson is particularly fetching, though her voice does not carry as it should, mainly through her voice does not carry as it should, mainly through her own weak projection. The Gonzale of Donald Stevens was well done...
Like Cranach, Titian had taken his pick in the Greek Pantheon, but had added a sumptuousness of his own. His Venus and the Lute Player made the goddess look more human than divine, for his brush managed to suggest the blood beneath the opalescent skin and to impart a warmth that no marble could match. Compared with Titian's, even such latter-day Technicolor Venuses as Lana Turner seemed somewhat anemic...