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Anderson, as I remember, is part Italian. He is a stocky, quiet, soft-voiced man, with great dark gentle eyes. I fancy he has spent most of his life being patient, then suddenly running away from life with an elaborate and perhaps unnecessary gesture. He was born at Camden, Ohio, where he was educated in the public schools. Later he worked as a laborer, fought in the Spanish-American War, wrote advertising copy, won The Dial Prize, attained a vogue in advanced literary circles, was married twice. He recently sued his second wife for divorce, charging her with desertion...
...elaborate scenery and cos- tumes little need be said, for audiences have come to take all that for granted. The French Revolution scene was unusually effective, with the spot-light focussed on Perry Askan, as the young revolutionist and the dark background filled with waving torches. The human chandelier and living curtain was as an elaborate thing of the kind as we have ever seen...
...contributed to the artistic immortality of Franz Hals. The picture just added to Mr. Thompson's collection of old masters was formerly owned by Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild of Waddesdon Manor. On a canvas, 4x5 feet, it shows a fair tousle-headed boy. He wears a cap; his dark coat is lined with blue; in his upraised right hand he holds a wine glass, and laughs...
...Weaver is slim, dark, active, almost jumpy. He is perennially young; at least he looks easily ten years younger than he is, and he's still under thirty. He is a Southerner, but long years in the Middle West have quite obliterated any trace of a Southern accent. He attended Hamilton College?this he holds a bond in common with Alexander Woollcott, the increasingly weighty dramatic critic of The New York Herald. As a bitter and somewhat bumptious critic Mr. Weaver made his early reputation on the Chicago Daily News. His columns in The Brooklyn Daily Eagle have been characterized...
...contributed to the artistic immortality of Franz Hals. The picture just added to Mr. Thompson's collection of old masters was formerly owned by Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild of Waddesdon Manor. On a canvas, 4x5 feet, it shows a fair tousle-headed boy. He wears a cap; his dark coat is lined with blue; in his upraised right hand he holds a wine glass, and laughs...