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Does Helen of Troy need Pond's Cold Cream or Mars Nuxated Iron? A claque...
...singers have paid claques, regardless of how successful they may be. A claque is a sort of musical insurance against an occasional unresponsive audience. Not infrequently it is more a parasite upon an artist than his tool. If there had been Pond's Cold Cream on sale in Troy or Nuxated Iron on Olympus, what is more likely than that Helen and Mars respectively would have availed themselves of these things ? Queen Marie of Rumania uses Pond's Cream (according to advertisements) and Jack Dempsey takes Nuxated Iron (TIME, July...
...what sonorous organ-tones rolled out of that little body seated in the swivel chair. And what was the witchcraft that he used? Vanished worlds arose from the graves of time to live again in pomp and pageantry. Homer's heroes exchanged ringing blows on the windy plains of Troy. Armored knights spurred in quest of the Holy Grail. Lear went raving over the heath. A tramp steamer careened across the Indian Ocean shearing spray off her bows, and the dawn came up like thunder.... And on the hard wooden chairs sat hundreds of boys, young barbarians, fascinated, spellbound, many...
Leonard Lispenard Robb of Troy...
Married. Mrs. Gertrude T. Douglas Peabody to Peter A. B. Widener II, son of Joseph E. Widener of Philadelphia, financier and art collector. Mrs. Peabody last month obtained her divorce from Frederick G. Peabody, gents' collar manufacturer of Troy...