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...Emma in a Purple Dress ranks high among U.S. portraits. Scanning his wife's trim ankles, high-piled dark hair and tapering fingers with an appreciative, penetrating eye, Bellows managed to give her face and figure the elegance and spirit of a Goya duchess, her simple low-waisted silk dress an air of perennial chic. It was the last portrait he ever did of his wife. In 1925, two years after he completed it, he died at 42, at the peak of his talent...
...UPPER STORY, on Palmer Street next to the Coop annex, specializes in providing gifts which are thoughtfully and painstakingly conceived as well as stunningly attractive. This tie, of French silk in subtle shades of grey, may be combined with Howe enameled cuff links for a tasteful, dignified gift to any man. The tie is $8.00, the cuff links, $6.50. Other ties go for $4.00. The shop also has beautifully designed enamel jewelry for women...
Died. J. Edward Bromberg, 46, veteran character actor, who was brought to the U.S. from Hungary at the age of two, worked as a silk salesman before getting a start in the Provincetown Theatre, appeared in numerous plays written by his friend, Clifford Odets (see above), got good notices from the critics for his parts in Men in White and The Royal Family, bad notices from the House Un-American Activities Committee for refusing to say whether he was or was not a Communist; of a heart ailment; in London, where he was playing an undertaker in The Biggest Thief...
...March" proclaimed a blue silk banner at one end of a Statler Hotel ballroom last Tuesday. Underneath it on a raised platform were three long tables, decked with boughs of spruce and fir, and in front of those were row on row of round tables with eight seats apiece. The Massachusetts GOP Finance Committee was holding its $100 a plate dinner, and all the chairs were filled with Republicans celebrating the birth of the Grand New Party...
Next day, in full-bottomed wig, black breeches, silver-buttoned jacket, black silk hose and silver-buckled slippers, Shakes took his place in the high-backed, canopied Speaker's chair. He was a Tory no longer (and the precarious Tory majority was reduced by one, to 26), for Mr. Speaker must stay studiously aloof from voting and debates alike. His power is immense. He presides over debates but does not take part in them, wielding procedural authority which garrulous U.S. legislators might consider tyrannical. He can silence members guilty of "irrelevance or tedious repetition," thus preventing filibusters...