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James Boswell was an 18th Century Scot who was fond of the bottle and of great men's society. Because he was also a writer of talent and because he turned his admiring passion to such good account, he wrote what is still the world's best-known biography (The Life of Samuel Johnson). Like all literary men Boswell left behind him quantities of manuscript and unpublished writing. Boswell's descendants were gentry, and did not propose to add any more fuel to their ancestor's reputation, already to their minds a little too lurid. From...
Ralph Heyward Isham is a 45-year-old American (though he looks and talks like a Briton) who is fond of 18th Century books and of having his own way. Because he also inherited a sizeable fortune and because he was willing to spend large chunks of it to buy what he wanted, he has one of the world's best collections of 18th Century English literature. Like other collectors he had heard of the Malahide papers. Dr. A. S. W. Rosenbach, Philadelphia's famed dealer, had cabled a bid of $250,000 for them. Lord Talbot...
Marc adores her like a dog; he is sensitive, goodhearted, naive. Before long Isabelle finds herself becoming very fond of him. But the crowd that buzzes around him, dedicated to "wealth, unchastity, and disobedience to all standards," she finds increasingly hard to bear. Marc has one vice, gambling. One bad evening at Le Touquet he gets drunk, starts to play. Because it is the only way to stop him Isabelle makes a ghastly scene which costs her a miscarriage. After a weary convalescence she decides to leave Marc and marry a young painter who is just her sort...
...five Dionne sisters are starring in their first feature picture, "The Country Doctor", the Metropolitan this week. All who are fond of watching bits of infancy, and seeing quintuple at that, will be delighted to hear that there is plenty of the Dionne petites frolicking about their luxurious nursery, registering all sorts of emotions to anyone with a sympathetic imagination, and knocking over miniature chairs when told to be little ladies. The gruff brat-baiters, on the other hand, will find plenty of diversion in the career of Jean Hersholt, playing the staunch country doctor...
...Brummel of the Mauve Decade, she fled the U. S. in 1912 because the advent of the automobile made Manhattan "impossible." In Paris, she organized many a gala dinner which royalty attended, devoted much of her time to le phare de France, an institution for blind war veterans. Extremely fond of animals, her pet was a show chow, Chi-Chi. When she wrote its autobiography, the late Rudyard Kipling was moved to remark: "My, what an observing...