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...GRAND TOUR-Romer Wilson -Knopf ($2.50). When a sculptor genius plays with the inkpot, unusual things are apt to happen; the grand tour of Alphonse Marichaud in the foreign field of the written word is extraordinary. Letters to a friend -to a mistress-sharp, vivid, merry, little incidents-characterizations of people, of places as clean and telling as if they were cut on a copper plate-a startling potpourri of wit, vigor, irony, tragedy, acute observation - self-portrait of Marichaud himself that ranks among the few convincing descriptions of genius in recent fiction-all these jostle each other with...
Died. Hon. Aubrey Nigel Henry Molyneux Herbert, one-time diplomat, half-brother of the late Earl of Carnarvon, in London, following an operation. When the tomb of TutankhAmen was opened he is said to have exclaimed: " Something dreadful will surely happen in our family...
...English cast, most engagingly frivolous regarding certain aspects of matrimony. IN LOVE WITH LOVE-A trivial discussion of why, when and whom a girl should marry made into the semblance of important entertainment by the brilliant playing ot Lynn Fontanne. MERTON OF THE MOVIES-Reveals what is likely to happen when Main Street migrates to Hollywood. Glenn Hunter has made the movie-struck youth a byword in America. TWEEDLES-The old curiosity shop of the Maine coast made the setting of a satire on the futility of first family ways. It much resembles Booth Tarkington's Seventeen. POLLY PREFERRED...
Today (Sept. 10, 1923), if you happen to live anywhere in the U. S., Canada, Mexico, Central America, the West Indies, or northwestern South America, you can see, w. p. (weather permitting), at least part of a total eclipse of the sun. If you are fortunate enough to be within a curvilinear zone about 100 miles wide, which grazes the coast of Southern California and sweeps through the heart of Mexico, you will see the whole face of Old Sol obscured by the moon's shadow for a few brief moments - a sight which has not been visible...
...number of professional singers, together with amateurs. The use of amateur performers in the playing of opera is a bit of sublimity that makes one tremble. For chorus work (the chorus will number 125) something may be done with amateur talent, but for solo singing and orchestra playing-miracles happen, but not often...