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Then President Peret seized his silk hat and suspended the session and ordered the galleries to be cleared...
Myrtie is an addition to the sob drama. Author Goodhue seeks to arouse your pity for a bad girl, bent on going wrong for the sake of the silk stockings she'll get. Then she meets a priest, falls in love with him, tries to go straight, to win his smiles and maybe his kisses. When he repulses her advances, bang goes another convert! After a year with another man, again the wages of sin are a baby. The play groans under a load of sentiment. The characterization is conventional, enlivened by small-boy efforts to say something risqu...
...Architectural League has also recently awarded a medal to Henri Creange, of Cheney Brothers silk manufacturing concern, for the best work in the furthering of industrial...
Nagako had many garments made in Kioto: a kimono of scarlet and purple silk carrying the embroidered chrysanthemum crest; a skirt of intricate design; an outer dress of purple silk with designs of pine trees and tortoises, symbols of long life. She carried a fan of gilded wood on which were painted varicolored flowers. (Her trousseau, invaluable, contained a kimono of twelve thicknesses...
...collection of Japanese paintings at 65 East 56th St., Manhattan, is being sold for earthquake relief. Some are done on silk. One, named Horror, portrays Tokyo burning...