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...like to see headlines from Hearst papers flashed on the screen every few minutes, and if you like to see Mr. Hearst's Miss Marion Davis try to act twenty years younger than she is, then there's nothing else for you to do but go see "Cain and Mabel...
Nominee Knox stopped, stared. Heads turned, feet shuffled as the owner of the voice, Mrs. Mabel West, 39-year-old Philadelphian in Los Angeles for a visit, scrambled over laps to the aisle. There she proceeded to raise a small vial of iodine to her lips, drink, fall writhing to the floor. Later at the hospital, where she was found to be only slightly damaged, iodine-stained Accuser West speculated: "Maybe I just got hysterical...
...candid memoirs by international ladies of fashion who, after long and hectic careers, found much unhappiness with many husbands in many different countries. The first and most scandalous of these books was Elizabeth Drexel Lehr's "King Lehr" and the Gilded Age, followed by The Countess from Iowa, Mabel Dodge Luhan's European Experiences and Evalyn Walsh McLean's Father Struck It Rich...
...Emil Ganso, a crowded Coney Island beach scene by Reginald Marsh, a languorous Siamese cat by Agnes Tait, a lithograph of wild horses by last year's PWA discovery, Frank Mechau Jr., a group of bulbous people looking at other strange fish in an aquarium window by Mabel Dwight, a fine winter landscape by Ernest Fiene...
...most readers, the value of contemporary reminiscences lies as much in what can be made out dimly between the lines as in what is boldly stated in the text. Last year the reminiscences of Mabel Dodge Luhan (European Experiences) and Elizabeth Drexel Lehr ("King Lehr" and the Gilded Age) were prime examples of such oblique candor. Although both authors revealed an intermittent circumspection, both were sufficiently engrossed in telling their own stories to make indirect admissions of which they appeared to be unaware. Cut in the same pattern as those books, The Countess from Iowa is nevertheless much less interesting...