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...Spring day in 1889, her magnificently equipped carriage rolled up to the dignified Church of St. John the Evangelist. She alighted, dressed in the modern equivalent of sackcloth and ashes, carrying a pail and scrubbing-brush, 'dropped to her knees, scrubbed the tiling, "did penance for her sins...
...Ward celebrated her 92nd birthday by bringing out a fat volume of reminiscences, Memories of go Years*. Still active with the brush and able to receive many visitors in her small house in Chelsea's art colony, she recalls the guns saluting the coronation of Queen Victoria when she was a child of six, the assistance offered her by Wilkie Collins on the occasion of her elopement at the age of 16 with E. M. Ward, R.A., also an artist, her stay at Windsor Castle in 1857 when she was commissioned to paint the portrait of the infant Princess...
...underlying sentiment is that women who enter politics expecting to remain undefiled guardian angels will find themselves tarred with the same brush as the hitherto ruling sex. Conveying this thought is a young wife who is virtually dragged by the heels into running for Mayor by enthusiastic women friends, who feel that the town's politics need dusting off. In endeavoring to wage a clean campaign she commits most of the sins known to professional office-seekers. The author has very astutely led her to lie, cheat and practically embezzle, while bit by bit her ideals are chipped away...
...sense of storytelling. Instead of writing imaginative travel books based on fact, he creates romances with a background of his own experiences in which god-like heroes, heroines and villains move simply and struggle with the problems of life in the large. He paints his scenes with a delicate brush and his people with broad, crude strokes...
Maytime. The famous operetta, which is still a favorite after seven years, has been presented on the screen, minus the music and the swinging choruses. The effect is supremely silly. Sentiment is splashed around with a whitewash brush. An attempt has been made to jazz up this fragrantly simple story of the lovers who buried their love beneath a tree as they were forced to marry others, and had their souls reunited at last in their descendants. Harrison Ford, Ethel Shannon, Clara Bow and William Norris pop in and out of the story, doubling on their tracks through three generations...