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Black Flames, whole no. 1, January 1946
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YVALA'S PROGENEY Helen B. Dewey C. L. Moore's Yvala has a god child! The god father, Forest J. Ackerman, is beaming. Forry saw a heroine. A slinky Slavic. High cheek bones and Anna Sten. Liking her on sight he coined his own name for her, Ivala. Meanwhile, Catherine (the Great) had fallen in love too, with siren Sten. In her recent picture, "Her Wedding Night". She wrote Forry a rhapsodic letter about sinful Hollywood producers who covered up so much beauty in white shawls. She thought the Sten-inspired Ivala made a capital name for a fantasy heroine. When re-spelled Yvala. She wrote a Northwest Smith story around her. It appears in Weird Tales. G. Gorden Dewey (Helen's husband), a C. L. Moore admirer of long standing, named his brand new baby daughter, Yvala. That was six years ago and only recently did he meet Forry and discover that his new friend coined the name...and that we Dewey's have been mispronouncing it, lo, these several years! Authority Forry says: Ee-vah'lah. Yvala's first name, Sharane, was borrowed from A. Merritt's Ship of Ishtar. The name, however, took so much explaining to non-fantasy readers that Sharane Yvala Dewey gets by on her initials, Syd. SONNET TO A SUBTLE SATYR Skilled weaver of bright dreams, you seek my heart / To blend within your intricate design. / How well I know these charms and wiles of thine / Are from much practice in love's subtle art. And yet, some dormant beast within me stirs, / My heart and mind no longer are at peace / My heart, impatient, clamours for release / Although my mind -- my reasoning -- demurs. Flowers of loveliness beyond compare / Abound in your domain. You don't deny / Their beauty pleases your disconcerning eye. / How you can you be content with one less fair? Wise Satyr! My woman's vanity and pride / Shall lead me, unresisting, to your side.
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YVALA'S PROGENEY Helen B. Dewey C. L. Moore's Yvala has a god child! The god father, Forest J. Ackerman, is beaming. Forry saw a heroine. A slinky Slavic. High cheek bones and Anna Sten. Liking her on sight he coined his own name for her, Ivala. Meanwhile, Catherine (the Great) had fallen in love too, with siren Sten. In her recent picture, "Her Wedding Night". She wrote Forry a rhapsodic letter about sinful Hollywood producers who covered up so much beauty in white shawls. She thought the Sten-inspired Ivala made a capital name for a fantasy heroine. When re-spelled Yvala. She wrote a Northwest Smith story around her. It appears in Weird Tales. G. Gorden Dewey (Helen's husband), a C. L. Moore admirer of long standing, named his brand new baby daughter, Yvala. That was six years ago and only recently did he meet Forry and discover that his new friend coined the name...and that we Dewey's have been mispronouncing it, lo, these several years! Authority Forry says: Ee-vah'lah. Yvala's first name, Sharane, was borrowed from A. Merritt's Ship of Ishtar. The name, however, took so much explaining to non-fantasy readers that Sharane Yvala Dewey gets by on her initials, Syd. SONNET TO A SUBTLE SATYR Skilled weaver of bright dreams, you seek my heart / To blend within your intricate design. / How well I know these charms and wiles of thine / Are from much practice in love's subtle art. And yet, some dormant beast within me stirs, / My heart and mind no longer are at peace / My heart, impatient, clamours for release / Although my mind -- my reasoning -- demurs. Flowers of loveliness beyond compare / Abound in your domain. You don't deny / Their beauty pleases your disconcerning eye. / How you can you be content with one less fair? Wise Satyr! My woman's vanity and pride / Shall lead me, unresisting, to your side.
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