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Last week Minna died at 80, a wealthy and dignified dowager. Ada sent her body to Virginia for a burial befitting a Southern gentlewoman...
...FOOLISH GENTLEWOMAN (330 pp.) -Margery Sharp-Little, Brown...
...minor but respectable talents are not as successful in The Foolish Gentlewoman as in its predecessors. The novel begins promisingly enough. At Chipping Lodge on Chipping Hill, a pleasant, grassy spot eight miles from London, lives "sentimental, affectionate, uncritical Mrs. Brocken," together with mementos of her younger years and miscellaneous members of her family. Mrs. Brocken "had adored her husband and was very fond of her French peppermill. An old watering-can was dear to her because she remembered seeing the gardener use it on her mother's rose-beds, and a new alarm-clock, because...
Dowager Soprano Geraldine Farrar, 65, now a country gentlewoman in Ridgefield, Conn., had a lungful left for modern music: "They do so much to get so little...
...quite an operator. Women of all sorts tumble for him like so many roundheeled dominoes, and he clearly qualifies for a fancy future in radio advertising. He knows, to perfection, how to walk into a cushy job by appearing to walk out on it; how to hook a gentlewoman (Miss Kerr) for a soap testimonial; how to turn out a commercial ("Love That Soap") that turns even his own stomach; how to finesse a sharp deal and how to make it stick by the application of blackmail. Above all, he knows how to please his agency's most fearsome...