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...Merchant of Venice. Clad in a breath-taking scarlet robe, Miss Ethel Barrymore appeared to Mr. Walter Hampden's Shylock a creation of the role of Portia which flamed like the attack of a young and flighty tanager upon an old and steady-going raven. Mr. Hampden's performance was straightforward, stately and without elocutionary claptrap. Miss Barrymore seemed unusually nervous and selfconscious, but swept the audience off its feet with a blazing scintillant triumph in the trial scene...
...accompanied by his religious and secular court, by Princes Orsini, Boncompagni, Massimo, Aldobrandini. On the way to St. Peter's there joined this group the Noble Guard, the Knights of the Cape and Sword, all the Cardinals in Rome, Patriarchs from the East, white-mitred abbots, purple-clad canons of St. Peter's, Swiss Guards, Palatine Guards, members of religious orders in sombre habits. At the entrance of St. Peter's the Pope was raised on his sedia gestatona; the bearers of the fiabelli (huge, iridescent fans of ostrich and peacock feathers) took their places; so too the various guards...
...that Secret Consistory in the Hall of the Consistory, faced by the Sacred College of his scarlet robed Cardinals, sat white-clad Pius XI, once Achille Ratti, but since Feb. 12, 1922, His Holiness the Pope, Bishop of Rome an Vicar of Jesus Christ, Successor of Saint Peter, Prince of the Apostles, Supreme Pontiff of the Universal Church, Patriarch of the West, Primate of Italy, Archbishop and Metropolitan of the Roman Province, Sovereign of the Temporal Dominions of the Holy Roman Church...
Customers of J. P. Benkard & Co., Manhattan stockbrokers entering the offices of the firm one morning last week, stared in amazement at a clerk who was putting up the opening prices, for this individual was clad like no other clerk in the history of Wall Street. He had on a pale smock with a rolling collar and an open neck-a garment of the type that is popularly supposed to be the uniform of artists in the Latin Quarter of Paris. Its color was light blue. In the office, a score of clerks were visible through a glass door, bending...
...Hall of the British Foreign Office. At either side three tall windows, dull-bright with winter sunshine. Down the centre a huge table, covered with blue baize and vermilion-splashed by three official despatch boxes. Around the table a group of the most distin- guished statesmen in Europe-all clad in mourning (for England's Dowager Queen). At smaller tables other statesmen and ladies-like- wise in black. At one end of the room eight rows of seats, tiered like a grandstand, for the press. Above and over all, the unearthly white-green glare of mercury-vapor arcs. Conspicuous...