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...neck. At the end, when Fanny slipped off to the country with her pure but honest well-beloved, interest waned. Bostonians had come to see Mary Garden do great and voluptuous acts of rage and excitement; satisfied in this desire, they decided that she had tilted a cracked mirror so that its faulty images could be forgotten as it caught and reflected her own glory. They came again to hear other singers sing better...
Advertisement for Listerine shaving soap: bearded bust, staring with curiosity and disapproval upward, into an imaginary mirror...
...Mary Garden, Geraldine Farrar, Eva Le Gallienne, the late John Pierpont Morgan, Cardinal James Gibbons,* John Burroughs, Lillian Russell, Tallulah Bankhead, Seymour Cromwell (onetime president of the New York Stock Exchange), many a Wall Street man and Tammany Hall politician, Philip Payne (onetime editor of the New York Daily Mirror, whom Evangeline Adams warned against flying in the ill-fated Old Glory). Senators, high U. S. executives and business potentates, whose names she keeps secret, have sat facing her. Her outstanding predictions include the deaths of King Edward VII and Enrico Caruso, the Windsor Hotel of Manhattan fire (her first...
Shaking his head over this recollection, General Dolgorucki sees his face in the mirror over the dressing-room table. The cinema director, whom he recognizes as the revolutionist he sent to prison so long ago, gives him a costume like the one he wore when he was the cousin of a living Tsar. Then the director sends the sad actor, once more a gaudy captain, into a mock battle. Leading Hollywood soldiers across a fabricated battlefield, the Russian nobleman forgets pretense. After relieving for a moment a similar scene in his remembrance, General Dolgorucki dies, not in pretense...
...known to have involved more than one million pounds?elevates Sir Edward Berry still higher in his rank with the two greatest newspaper proprietors of England. Both these men chance to be in the U. S. at present. They are: 1) Harold Sidney Harmsworth, Viscount Rothermere (Daily Mail, Daily Mirror and Evening News), brother of the late and greatest British news titan, Viscount Northcliffe; and 2) William Mawell Aitken, Baron Beaverbrook (Daily Express and Evening Standard), a self-made Canadian, still sometimes referred to as "that bounder", but generally accorded the respect due a man who has made a cool...