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...Founded in 1848, the church bought property in 1849 which was regarded as too far uptown. But Society moved northward. Theatres were built nearby. Mrs. John Jacob Astor became a communicant of the Church of the Transfiguration, gave a fine pair of gas-brackets. Additions were built on the low. brownstone building; its rambling appearance earned it the name of the Church of the Holy Cucumber Vine...
...richest merchant in all Hungary (Ernest Glendenning) and a poor young engineer (Walter Abel). It takes four padded scenes, in which sub-characters pop in and out with the sombre precision of a cuckoo clock, and the conclusive click of a train gate to force the right pair into each other's arms...
Rare and monstrous, a lively two-headed turtle last week was giving Florida herpetologists and animal behaviorists instructive entertainment. Besides having two heads, the creature has two pair of front feet, two fore openings in its carapace. Otherwise its parts are normal...
Life is a perpetual dilemma for the turtle. The heads apparently do not realize, as do joined human twins, that they have a common destiny. The two pair of front feet always attempt to crawl in divergent directions...
...catalog's scheme is ingenious. Two introductory poems set the stage, the scene: "... a shabby backdrop of bright stars: one of the small interstices of time." Then the itemized catalogs begin. First, The Costumes ("Item: a pair of infant's socks two inches long . . . Item: long trousers . . . Item: a tweed hat bought in England, green . . . Item: a coffin"). Then Characteristic Comments from: the nursery clock, the shoes, the fire, Shakespeare, Vivien, the desk, the prostitute, the heart. You hear Remarks on the Person of Mr. Jones from: the trained nurse ("it's a fine...