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...detective had, as imagined by Doyle, "a thin, razor-like face, with a great hawk's-bill of a nose and two small eyes, set close together on either side of it." But the original illustrations, done by the late Sidney Paget, were posed for by the artist's handsome younger brother. Future illustrators have followed Paget. The name of the character was originally planned as "Sherringford Holmes." Dr. Doyle has always felt that the popularity of the Holmes stories has obscured the value of his other more pretentious works...
Miss Gillmore translated into beauty and cynicism the playwright's conception of an American girl who has lived too long abroad. Deserting the lax and luxurious friends of her not too immaculate mother, she turns up in Florence with an American artist who is not her husband. Her long-suffering father and the mother of her artist arrive to create a difficult scene from which she flees with an Italian count for no very good reason. Back in Paris, she repents on her father's shoulder and departs for America ostensibly to reforge her rusty morals against...
Jeff as reported one morning by the fecund pen of Artist Bud Fisher in The New York World. Mutt was seen abed, sleeping off the effects of a strenuous evening. Little Jeff was up, dressed, eager to explore the city in which they had stopped. Artist Fisher had indicated clearly that it was a city, not a town. He had indicated, moreover, that it was a city noted as a cotton center. That was what Little Jeff was going to investigate-cotton. Artist Fisher had named the city, too. "Greenville, N. C.," he called it-and that...
...Robert Jones '24 in the National Amateur Golf Championship on Saturday occasioned little surprise in the University. He has always been a brilliant player, one who could be counted upon to finish among the leaders in any tournament which he entered. Experts have long hailed him as the greatest artist among golfers and have predicted that his ultimate coronation would be only a question of time. His performance at Merion did little more than make official a title which he had borne unofficially for several years...
...clock which sounded the Chapel bell in days gone by, or was it the original penpetrator of the daily seven o'clock fantasia in Harvard Hall? Possibly Ben was the parent of all modern book agents whose bickering approach was heralded long enough to allow the artist to draw the picture and the message on his locked door. Had the writing been of a blue tint, Ben might well have been the prosequor of those instructors who demand in no uncertain voices that themes be written in black ink. The artist in this case might have been a gentleman, suffering...