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...tell about the voice that answers, so you push the door and sidle into a little room. You suppose it is a dirty room, like the rest of the theatre, and old, but you don't look. It is very small because she is leaning into a mirror almost in front of you. Then she turns around and you notice for a minute that she is wearing a little house-coat like your aunt buys in Woolworth's and she has makeup...
...hosannas over the show, wrote that it had produced "an art which will not only be understood but loved for its realism." And just so there would be no mistake, Red Premier Otto Grotewohl spelled it out. "The government," he said, "demands that the artist make his works a mirror of the nation...
...colonel, after a visit to his tailor and bootmaker, drove off to the outskirts of London, visited the Ludgrove School, where he was once a student, and remarked: "It was here that I learned how to be patriotic to one's country." Even London's Laborite Daily Mirror had a kind word for Bertie McCormick: "Now he is with us once more . . . and has been summing us up again. Bless him. Bless his stupid old rancorous heart." The News Chronicle even suggested the time might be ripe to open the question of "a Treaty of Friendship and Mutual...
...family dinner table, Ros sat opposite a buffet mirror and practiced crossing her eyes and making the faces that she had found surefire in attracting her father's attention. She played billiards on the third floor with her brothers, and harmonized in the music room with her sisters. She beat out hot rhythms on her brother's trap drum and played aggressive solos on kazoo, ukulele and banjo. She admired and envied her stately older sister Clara ("The Duchess"), and made life both miserable and exciting for her younger sisters, Mary Jane and Josephine. Mary Jane recalls...
...invented the gossip column," he says, and adds: "I was the real creator of daily illustrated journalism." He doesn't overstate it much. In 1905, as news and art editor of Northcliffe's Mirror, London's first picture tabloid, he helped it to pass the Daily Mail's circulation, which had been the world's biggest. But he really came into his own in 1926, after Northcliffe's death, when Beaverbrook hired him as drama critic of the Express...