Word: katrina
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...through a clutching, echoing forest, with the gangling, lily-livered schoolmaster in full flight before the Headless Horseman, is a skillful blend of the hilarious and the horrible. It is Disney at his facile best. The rest of the story, dealing with quaint, legendary people, is flat and prosaic. Katrina might have popped out of a newspaper comic strip; Brom Bones looks like a Catskill country cousin of Li'l Abner...
Ichabod possesses remarkable equanimity, which remains undisturbed until his path is crossed by the inevitable woman--the coquette Katrina. From then until his encounter with the Headless Horseman, he floats about on the screen in a transport of joy. As for the Horseman, he scared the pants off the kids at the RKO-Keith. More mature moviegoers will have no trouble in this respect...
...sense, celebrating the fact that it was no longer being supported in part by the Chicago Tribune's lush dividends. The Colonel's niece had sold her last six shares of Tribune stock to Colonel McCormick (for about $210,000). Says slender, 31-year-old Mrs. Katrina McCormick Barnes: "I've always hated Uncle Bertie...
...showplace of Saratoga Springs, N. Y. is Yaddo, 500-acre estate of the late Banker Spencer Trask and his poet wife, Katrina. For twelve years Yaddo's three-story stone, Victorian-Gothic mansion has been a free, luxurious refuge for writers, painters, musicians, critics, all carefully selected, and carefully mother-superiored by a high-minded, hieratic lady named, Elizabeth Ames. Yaddo has also been, on & off during the past eight years, a place where serious U. S. composers could gather to play, hear, discuss their own music. As such it is valuable, for many composers, especially young ones...
...gave out Bletheris, a monody for voice and orchestra based upon a section of The Hamlet of A. MacLeish, which was spoiled because Mr. Finney sang the vocal himself. And so on. None of the music would have set Saratoga Springs on fire, but it probably would have pleased Katrina Trask, who used to say: "At Yaddo they will find the Sacred Fire, and light their torches at its flame...