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...down ? A Mussolini? A d'Annunzio? No. The Daily News (New York), upstart, rich-quick, gum-chewing little brother of the Chicago Daily Tribune, made this preparation for Luis Angel Firpo. He " has acquired the Mediterranean grace of stride, suavity of conduct, beauty of gesture and an inimitable pose before the human gallery in all he does...
Henry Ford: "At Marion, 0., a cameraman imposed upon my good nature by suggesting that I pose working over a machine of my own make. Said he: 'That would be a good picture, with you a candidate for President.' I favored the man with a frosted glance and ceased smiling...
Says Harden: "He really exists. . . . He calls himself simply Hugo Stinnnes, merchant. This is not a pose. He became a merchant when, with 50,000 gold marks, he founded his independent business. . . Without foreign help he made himself the mightiest of his kind...
...knowledge in themselves. His continual "searching for this and that" took other form besides that of book-collecting. His "great anthropomorphological collection", which he began in his early youth and pursued throughout his life, was one of the most original contributions to psychology. A face, a photograph, portrait or pose that interested him was duly enlisted and catalogued: marginal sketches of hands and feet (another sign of his versatility) turned the pages of his books and notebooks into illuminated manuscripts. Some of these, fortunately have been preserved in the large bequest to the University...
...POCKETFUL OF POSES?Anne Parrish?Doran ($2.00). A delightful first novel, intelligent, humorous and civilized, concerned with the first twenty-odd years or so of the life of Marigold Trent, whose " guiding impulses " were " politeness and a feeling for the dramatic." She posed to herself, her relatives, her suitors, her friends, her husband?always charmingly, always quite believing the pose of the moment?and nearly always getting herself and all around her into bushels of trouble. The ingrained human fondness for self-dramatization has seldom been more ingratiatingly described than in this charming and sometimes poignant comedy of the impulses...