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...will admit that this has a bit of the esotericism of T. S. Eliot, Merely pose, I assure you. I am much better at bridge. Now take the new books for sale on all and sundry stands in which are not alone the new rules, but even the newest comments by Work and Whitehead and all the other gentlemen of the green plush. For it seems that when one cuts high does win and that you just must know or the Ladies' Whist and Euchre (prize a doily isn't it just dear) will kick you down the back stairs...
...mind, at least, the best bit of acting is done by the unsung supers, the Tsarist officers, in a scene at an Inn. The princess, mistaken for a peasant girl has been given over, unknowingly, by her fiance, the prince, to the officers of his guard. DeMille has the officers seated around a table, snatching here and there at the girl's clothes, until, so well do the faces of the extras register, that one is led to believe, without seeing the princess, that she has very few clothes covering...
...Fairfax, Mo., Frank Plumb, anthropologist, unearthed a skeleton measuring 7 feet 2 inches with a low, slanting skull that suggested the Mayan custom of flattening infants' heads; with a pear-shaped stone inside it such as the Mayans put in the mouths of their dead; with a bit of pottery nearby and a translucent stone carved with a Mayan figure...
...Black Joe." It was so simple, so undemonstrative, that the connoisseurs after listening intently were conservative in their applause. The lights went up and they rustled their programs to find the condensed translation of the next song. The lights went down, Meller sang; again the applause was careful, a bit puzzled. From 9:15 to 10.45 it continued?songs of love, toreadors, religion, clothes?with one long intermission in which the bespangled audience?Anita Loos and Father Duffy, Al Jolson and His Honor the Mayor, and many another more or less notable who had paid $27.50 to be there? crowded...
...fine actress, a rare artist of the kind that comes but once in a generation, a bit of a sorceress, if you ask me."?Alexander Woollcott...