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There are men who are already earning their living. John Cromwell has appeared in "The Old Maid"; W. Dana Hardwick has just made his theatrical debut in "Ethan Frome"; Timothy Fuller is about to have a detective story published by Little, Brown & Co.; Thomas H. Dowd, Jr. is a second lieutenant in the 315th cavalry of the United States Army; and H. B. Jones is a professional piano tuner...
...Boulogne. For a night they are lovers, after which everything comes out. Naomi knows, Karen's mother has to be told. Before the tangle can be unraveled, Max has killed himself. Karen goes abroad to have her baby, Naomi back to her house to be an old maid. The story comes back to the present again, and now the reader knows that the little boy is Karen's son, and it is Naomi's house where he is waiting for his mother. Karen has married the man to whom she was first engaged, and since the child...
Five years ago last month a slender, waxen-faced woman of 45 lay ill with pleurisy in a hotel room in The Hague. A sedative had been given to spare her pain. Quietly, as if entranced, she spoke to her maid: "Marguerite! My swan costume!" As if she were hearing an unseen orchestra, Anna Pavlova lifted her arms, fluttered her hands. "Play that last measure softly," she murmured. And before the world realized that she was seriously ill the great Russian dancer was dead...
...sudden burst of unseasonably fine London weather is responsible for setting the Hiltons, their two daughters, son, maid and terrier on a frolic for 16 lively hours. Forsythia and iris are blooming, and to love all hearts turn lightly save that of the Hilton's cleaning woman who ominously declares: "The first spring day Is in the devil...
Exuberantly the three make their way through England, recruiting from a London town-house Dennie Moore, a lady's maid with stage ambitions. They buy a van, tour the English coast towns, doing music-hall turns until they encounter Brian Aherne, an artist with whom Sylvia Scarlett falls in love. One day on the beach she slips out of her male attire, steals the dress of a girl in swimming, goes up to his house. What follows is one of those scenes which Miss Hepburn plays with her best intuition,, a scene in which a woman who has played...