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...well-proportioned figure, slightly more matronly than it was a few years ago when she was a symbol of beauty. In cinema she has recently been cast as the suffering mother. The English critics thought her at least equal to Mrs. Pat Crimpbell. Ellen Terry, in their most glorious days. She was recalled ten times-the greatest demonstration since Sarah Bernhardt's appearance. She tried to make a speech but found herself choked with uncontrollable emotion. The audience continued to cheer, to wipe its eyes, to cheer Miss Frederick's mother seated in a stall, to cheer...
There were words and phrases and sentences. There was nothing profound about them. They were the glorious old, old story...
...Davenport, Iowa, George W. Cannon, Jr., 14, high school student, admirer and correspondent of several actresses, wrote a long letter saying "to die will be a glorious adventure. ... It is my belief that my spirit will some day enter into the body of a playwright and will call forth the story of a boy who loved to dream, the story of a boy who was so disillusioned that he couldn't stand it any more," and inhaled illuminating...
...explanation of the voluntary Turkish social revolution is that Turks see the Coolidge type of nation as a desired goal capable of swift and glorious attainment- where U. S. citizens have not yet sighted any super-Coolidge goal...
...ordered tanbark dumped on the trolley tracks outside the Republic Theatre to quiet the din of cars banging over the switch, how vigilant politicians made it a national issue, how Mrs. Pat made it a quarter of a million dollars' worth of publicity. They were shocked when "the glorious madwoman" stepped before the footlights last week. She had become majestic in proportion, infelicitous in performance. She embarrassed. Her play was a feebly repetitious comedy in which an elderly man monopolizes his son's woman while his elderly wife reciprocates with her daughter's man. But, even making...