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Julian C. Levi also hung up a pair of foils, a mask, and a brass French fireman's helmet, trophy of the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, whose disdain for the pompiers of the city is expressed in their marching song...
...with murder, occupies the defendant's chair. Heroine is a gaunt and fluttering matron, Mrs. Livingston Baldwin Crane (Edna Mae Oliver) who arrives, with her maid and chauffeur, to serve on the jury. She salutes the judge, whom she has met socially. Her conduct during the trial borders on disdain, if not contempt, of court. In the jury room Mrs. Crane shows that she has a better notion of the case than her associates. When all the rest vote "Guilty" she holds out for an acquittal...
...instant has the Mahatma Eilshemius ceased to shout his scorn of every other painter in the world, his disdain of every art gallery that does not recognize the importance of his work. But he stopped painting in 1920. A few have suspected that he realized then that his pictures of Samoa, his ruins by moonlight, his strange nude ladies bathing in improbable streams were as far as he could go. Last week he grew suddenly frank with his press agent. "I won't paint again," said Louis Eilshemius, "I'm just a comedian...
Actually M. Crotti is not an ineffective theorist on canvas. Born in Switzerland 51 years ago, he does not disdain a knowledge of drawing. One canvas, which looks like two Scots fighting with bolts of tartan but is labelled Fishermen, is an interesting arrangement of colors. Lorenzo, a rapidly sketched portrait of a small surly boy with a face like a baboon, stops and holds most observers...
Home last week from Russia, Mr. & Mrs. Ely Culbertson, handsome young exponents of a bidding system of their own,* reiterated their disdain for Bridge Headquarters, Inc., called it a "merger of has-beens and never-wases." Said facetious Expert Culbertson: "When I was arrested for speaking Russian with suspicious fluency, I offered to play the head of the secret service a [Sidney] Lenz problem in order to prove that I was merely . . . Culbertson. . . . But the chief could not find a deck of cards with kings or queens in the pack. . . . Even with the provisional deck he agreed . . . that...