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...Chevalier costume?un smoking (dinner jacket) and straw hat ? is a vestigial remnant of the days before the War when, as Guest Contributor William Bolitho of the New York World says: "Young men dressed like this in the evenings and had fun. . . . Look at Chevalier's queer straw hat with the same shiver as you see the Cap of Liberty stuck up in Tammany Hall, or the Crown of England. There is human history...
...dinner jacket breezes by, stick in hand, passes the group at No. 346. Nobody notices him. He ignores them. They never will meet again...
...orchestra. Next day both compositions were released on a record-Griselle's Nocturne and March on one side, Bloom's Bayou with its chorus of "Oh Lord, Please Take Away the Darkness" on the other. Victor calls it rightly a $15,000 record, tells purchasers on the jacket that "for more than a generation it has been the particular privilege of the Victor Company to satisfy all musical needs, and all musical tastes. Its ability to do so is self-evident in the roster of famous names that have won the distinction of 'Victor artists...
...Lily Christine's pink and black jacket is a subtitle mentioning good woman; on her title page in pink fast deflowering to purple she nevertheless promises "a romance." This for Michael Arlen of the onetime vogue is an amalgam so incongruous that one can but suspect him of a publicity trick. The suspicion is confirmed by the old sophisticated sentimentalities of style ill-matched to a heroine, beautiful though near-sighted and bespectacled, passionately devoted to her children though they visit the pages but once, loyal to a faithless husband though she begs one of her many admirers...
...trip to the gallery with the reporter, however, revealed that "The Green Jacket" was a genuine John; and, after identifying it as one of his own works, Mr. John made profuse apologies and declared that he was very certain that people on this side of the ocean are very honest after...