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...midmorning they stood outside the Curtis house intently watching a second-story window shade. The doctor had promised to raise it as a signal of the end. Everything was very still. A Negro boy was exercising polo ponies nearby. The air was sweet with spring. . . . Up, slowly up went the shade...
Critics paused before a well constructed, firmly drawn portrait by the club's treasurer, grey-haired, dapper Stanley Adams Sweet. Treasurer Sweet in private life is president of Sweet-Orr & Co. (overalls), generally recognized as the first company to market a high grade, tailored overall. Treasurer Sweet has no false ideas of his own prowess as a painter, but insists that his membership in the club has been invaluable in showing him the technical problems that great masters have had to overcome...
...father, Impresario Oscar Hammerstein, in the lobby. The father's opera hat was put in the cornerstone and ten stained glass windows commemorated the operas he produced. From that time on, Producer Hammerstein fell upon evil days. The Wild Rose, The Golden Dawn, Polly, Madeleine were not successes. Sweet Adeline was wrecked by the 1929 Crash. Says he: "I was a real estate operator with a theatre and office building to fill, as well as a producer. I was in a hurry to recoup my losses, and I made the mistake of trying to hurry a musical show...
...porch of a white brick Georgian house with peacock blue blinds, Macaw Toto in his cage. A brilliant example of the art of landscape architecture was not Mr. Scheepers' only contribution to the show. From his greenhouses came two new flowers never before exhibited in the U. S., the Sweet Glad and the Glory...
...half-dozen longer ones are all it contains, yet few collections of contemporary verse are so homogeneous. The verses, almost without exception, strike a note of gentle sadness, a tone which pervades the entire book. The title is significant. One feels that A.E. is saying farewell to all the "sweet-memoried" (to use his own phrase), things of earth. It is not an unpleasant theme, but rather one which lends an atmosphere of things long past to verses delicately and sensitively handled...