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...women's hearts, while Valentin, who had all of George Washington's attributes except his false teeth, clad in a black domino, plotted revolution in a cellar. And St. Luc, the English Prime Minister, was nobly but quite platonically in love with the Princess, and Mercedes, a dancer, was in love with Valentin-and oh gosh, but life was complicated in Neuberg! But if you like imaginary countries- and secret passages-and duels-and hasty rides through the night-and all the grand old blood-and-thunder- here's by far the best romance of the Anthony...
...Netherlands: "A North Carolina divine, reading a sermon of mine preached in New York, offered me $1,000 if I ' or any other Biblical infidel' will produce one single fact proving the materialistic evolution of man out of a lower order of species." Isadora Duncan, dancer: "I denied a report that my husband, Serge Essenin, sympathizes with the French Royalists. Said I: ' Serge is a poet. And poets are too lofty in their thoughts and ideals to descend to the point of even considering worldly political differences!' " Governor General Leonard Wood of the Philippines: "The present...
...hopeless postponement of Lloyd George's debut as a jazz-dancer...
...Bright Shawl. Another adaptation, this time from Hergesheimer's novel of conspiracy and abortive rebellion in the Cuba of 1850. Colorfully produced, with incidents of beauty, it yet misses genuine impressiveness -partly, perhaps, because Dorothy Gish, as the Spanish dancer, le Clavel, seems pitifully miscast. She does her very best with it, but the role simply does not fit her. Richard Barthelmess, as the adventurous young American dandy-hero, is better but not wholly successful. A word should be said in favor of Jetta Gondal who portrays a scintillating Chinese vamp and Anders Randolph as a sinister Spanish captain...
Divorced. Jagat Jit Singh Bahadur, Maharajah of Kaparthala, by Anita Delgado, in Paris, presumably on the grounds of white civilization's objection to his harem. It is reported that the Maharanee, who is 35, Spanish and a professional dancer, will marry her 30-year-old stepson, the Maharajah's heir...