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...Monster...
...difficult job of making a masculine hero of Prince Charming, and top honors in the superb cast went to Sir Cedric Hardwicke as the wonder-working Golux who came by his magical power because he was the "son of a witch." There was also dimly at hand a satisfying monster called the Todal who is made of lip, looks like a blob of glup, sounds like rabbits screaming, and smells of old, unopened rooms. The Todal's job was to punish evildoers for having done less evil than they should, and he ended the play by making a mouthful...
...offspring proved to be what medical archivists call a monster, a boy (or boys) with two heads, four arms, a fused trunk and two legs. Without letting Mrs. Hartley see the baby, Dr. Chattin got it breathing. Then he rushed it to the James Whitcomb Riley Hospital in Indianapolis. There, this week, the baby astonished medical men by continuing to live. And the Chicago Daily News shocked its readers (especially mothers-to-be) by printing its picture...
...protested the similarity between Og and Gog. We're trying to be friendly enemies about this thing. I even went to a party with Tors the other night. But my feeling is, if he comes out first with Gog, that ruins our title . . . His Gog is a mechanical monster. My Og is a missing-link monster. But they're both monsters...
Last week, fed up with his own "Frankenstein monster," Ronald Searle confirmed the closing of his imaginary school. In his new book, Souls in Torment, his girls are still playing their old tricks-but they are doing so for the last time. They squash their last teacher under a roller, stab their last classmate in gym ("Some little girl didn't hear me say 'unarmed combat,' " chides a teacher), and, having come into possession of some top secret information, they blow up their school with the latest atom bomb. From now on, St. Trinian's will...