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When Premier Herriot fell from the grace of the Senate, last week (TIME, Apr. 13), for secretly pursuing a policy of inflation, U. S. President Calvin Coolidge took what was called an "unprecedented step": he paid tribute to the fallen Premier...
...exhibition of charcoal and crayon portraits is now being held at the Grace Horn Galleries by Maurice Richard Grosser '24. Grosser recently exhibited a number of his works at the Fogg Museum and on the merits of that exhibition he was awarded a Fellowship which will enable him to spend next year in study abroad...
...anything more than spectacles, will perceive after reading the first sentence ("She gave a startled cry") that this is their kind of book. It is true that Mr. Maugham's material has served many a dingy charlatan; true also that his style is undistinguished. But he has a rare grace: humility. He wants to tell a good story, but he does not distort the pattern thrt life imposes upon even the most shoddy events. He writes sensationism with an air of having his manner dictated absolutely by his material. His story is as compact as a surgical dressing...
...various jobs for a newspaper and, finally, drifted into the playwriting business via Dulcy. He is short, alert, slightly bald, young, with a funny, short laugh that punctuates almost all his remarks. He is a parlor entertainer of great order and his acting has something of the pantomimic grace and comic pathos of Charlie Chaplin. His gift for making the witty remark might have been his undoing, for it is a rare one and makes for popularity; yet Connolly has kept, as has Don Marquis, the really fine quality of his imagination unsullied. An idea of beauty is quite...
...President, his mouth full of pins, poring over old Fashion Books "Just a touch of lace at the throat," he suggests to Mrs. Coolidge, "white fur wristlets to go with your hat, and a small cretonne bustle in the back would add distinction to the ensemble. But, oh Grace, where did you get that scrumptions scarl...