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...rough, nickel-loded, forest-fuzzed Canadian frontier at the east end of Lake Nipissing bulged large with spring's fertility last week. The full moon with Venus, Mars and Saturn accompanying swelled pompously across the midnight sky. And in a lamplit farmhouse near Callander a buxom French-Canadian woman of 24 whimpered with the unusual fullness of her womb. She, too, had three attendants-her aunt, another goodwife who had borne 17 children, and her husband Ovila Dionne. Upstairs in bed were the two boys and three girls of the Dionnes. Four years in his grave lay their sixth...
Medieval Mummery THE FOOL OF VENUS-George Cronyn -Covici, Friede ($3). Of the ten long years that went to the making of The Fool of Venus, eight were spent on research and the other two were wasted. In spite of all the pomp and panoply of a conscientiously historical novel, this lengthy (438 pp.) tale of a 12th Century troubadour rarely makes sense as a story about human beings. By dint of piling on medieval facts and such medieval words as bliaut, destrier, devinalh, joc-partitz, tenson, Author Cronyn has built a massive keep whose outlines are impressive but inside...
Search for Beauty (Paramount) is a benign sexual romp, publicized as an apostrophe to beauty, male as well as female ("Venus-like Girls! Tarzan-like Men!"). It presents: 30 handsome youngsters picked in promotional beauty contests throughout the U. S. and the British Empire; neat blonde Ida Lupino and muscular Larry ("Buster") Crabbe (Tarzan the Fearless). Lupino and Crabbe are Olympic swimmers. Hired by a pair of shifty rogues (James Gleason, Robert Armstrong) to run a physical culture magazine, they are soon shocked to discover what a crooked venture it really is. Crabbe is so vigorously honest that his employers...
...face-licking meekness of a lion named Duke who fell in love with two tigresses named Venus and Ruth almost spoiled Clyde Beatty's act but did not change the rule. Lions hate tigers. Tigers hate lions. On such feline passions rest the success and troubles of Clyde Beatty, 28, most famed U. S. animal trainer...
...orchestra. "Why Did Nellie Leave Her Home?" was his first song published. He was then 15. Not long after, when he was looking for a job in New York he met a man with a street telescope who gave him a free peek at the stars, told him Venus ruled the show business. Cohan went home, wrote "Venus, My Shining Star," sold it for $25. He still thinks it is his best song, not excepting "Harrigan" (1907), "Mary's a Grand Old Name" (1905), "Give My Regards to Broadway" (1904), "You're a Grand Old Flag...