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Hispanic Museum contains valued Velazquez, Murillos, Zurbarans and a room full of gaudy murals by Joaquin Soralla, besides numerous sculptures by the Museum's patron, Mrs. Anna Hyatt (Archer M.) Huntington...
...about her personal life as she is loquacious about her system, she seldom refers to her widowhood and never to the significance of the nine-strand collar of pearls which for more than 30 years has been her only ornament. Dr. Mensendieck calls the dancing legs of the late Anna Pavlova monstrously disproportioned. Likewise she scorns Tennist Helen Wills Moody's strong right arm, and Max Schmeling's entire musculature. Says she: "Tennis and basketball players coming down from their leaps resemble the comic stance of a drinking giraffe...
...quotation on the title page from Anna Hempstead Branch adequately sums up the character of Mitty as well as the essence of the whole book...
...Midwest, which, unlike California, lies far outside the world belt of earthquake frequency. In Indianapolis, Miss Lamar Montani was rolled out of bed and iron bars in the Bell Telephone offices were jounced off tables. In a prison at Jackson, Mich., convicts were thrown into a panic. In Anna, Ohio, chimneys knocked down by quakes last fortnight and subsequently repaired, tumbled again. Shaken residents of Dayton heard, or thought they heard, a deep rumble. In parts of Wisconsin, Illinois, Ontario, New York, West Virginia and Kentucky, furniture danced, dishes rattled, pictures fell, canned goods tumbled from store shelves...
...SWAN OF LICHFIELD-Edited by Hesketh Pearson - Oxford University Press ($3.50). Selected correspondence of Anna Seward, an 18th Century highbrow journalist whose indiscreet literary anecdotes and witty rhetoric tickled her contemporaries, but "nauseated" the next generation's Victorians, who called her Johnsonian anecdotes an outrage...