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...brown-haired, sweet-faced, sunny-tempered little girl whose name was Grace Goodhue, and she lived not many years ago in Burlington, Vt., on the shore of lovely Lake Champlain. Her name is now Mrs. Calvin Coolidge and she lives in the White House in Washington. Most of us when our span of life is run are found to have been very much the same from year to year, and those who have known her all her life say that Grace Coolidge is very like Grace Goodhue, even very much like wee Grace Goodhue, who rode in her tall springy...
...rise beyond the Potomac, or whether she stands in a gown of state of white-and-gold brocade, about to receive some royal visitor, the present mistress of the White House is always a real person-just as real, just as sincere, just as easily understandable, as was tiny Grace Goodhue in Vermont or older Grace Goodhue of the Burlington [Vt.] High School...
Criss Cross. Charles B. Dillingham's big dress-parade is possessed of every grace except humor. Lively dancers, good tunes, gorgeous costumes are presented in abundance. Criss Cross could find no ready market for its splendors, however, were it not for that priceless pair, Stone pere and Stone fille. Dad's acrobatic clowning discovers laughs that the lines themselves never even hinted at, while Daughter's unspoiled charm is one of Broadway's fresh delights. The dull book goes on at length concerning a simple maid who is about to be begged, borrowed, or stolen from...
...badly. There are moments when Mr. Connelly's genius for portraying the 'homus Americanus' is allowed full sway, and what takes place behind the footlights then becomes amusing and interesting. But when he ventures into the land of elves and gnomes and a forgotten boyhood, Connelly so patently lacks grace and deftness that the result is heavy-handed beyond words. Once or twice he revives sufficiently to shake off the unfortunate claims of fantasy and inserts such a scene as that between a couple of truculent schoolboys, but not often, and these rare seconds are lost in the general mawkishness...
Died. Lady Elizabeth Grace Dimsdale, 44, widow of Sir John Dimsdale of London, who shot himself in 1922, "social house mistress" at Rosemary Hall (Greenwich, Conn., girls' school); in London, by drinking lysol...