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...play, of all things, is a dream fantasy. A pugilist is hit on the chin and the developments of the second act are designed to explain what a pugilist thinks about when he is knocked unconscious. It seems this particular pugilist wanted to be an architect and marry a maid above his station. His distrustful manager suggested that if he persisted in these inflated notions he would land at police headquarters. These disheveled inventions are woven into a play, mad enough to fool most of the spectators for much, of the evening. When the hero took the stage and exterminated...
...Berlin waters found her in delirium and unable to tell her own name. Taken to a sanitarium, she encountered one Fraulein Peutert who soon made the striking announcement that the new patient was the Grand Duchess Tatiana, second daughter of Nicholas the Last. When the Baroness de Buxhaven, onetime Maid of Honor at the Court of Nicholas II, visited the young woman in Berlin and positively declared that she was not Tatiana, it was later announced that she is Anastasia...
...designed by Kate Greenaway, which are on exhibition, present the work of the founders of present day children's literature. The costumes of the girls and boys shown in these pieces set the style for those days and introduced such fashion ideas as extremely high wais; lines and milk-maid hats...
...attention to TIME of Nov. 28, "On Trains, and made the suggestion that we should add to your paragraph that the "North Coast Limited," Chicago-Seattle flyer, on the Northern Pacific, had a women's lounge and smoking compartment with long sofa and dressing tables, bath, manicure, maid, etc., added to its new equipment in March...
Caste. Cosmo Hamilton, brother of famed Journalist-Novelist Sir Philip Gibbs and of Novelist A. Hamilton Gibbs, also writes books and plays over which the giddy serving maid may smack her lips. His are Michael Arlen's people done in the more obvious, juicy manner of a movie scenario. Even when he has a problem which presumably he feels to be formidable, he must deal with it in cream phrases. His problem is intermarriage between an estimable Jew and a female of the higher social register. Her family are aghast in the grand manner, and the scenes are laid...