Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...career has been one to make into a fantastic novel. She studied in Paris, and, as scarcely more than a student, created one of the roles in Pelleas under the coaching of Debussy. Then, with a brilliant career in her hands, she married a Hollander, an official in the East Indies. To Java she went to preside over a satrap's strange eastern household. She lived there for several years. As a powerful white functionary's wife, she moved as a great person among the potentates of the oriental island. She tells of living as an honored guest...
...ready in speech, cautious in administration, scrupulously honorable in his engagements, and completely impatient of fallacious economics. Even in his youth he played his part against greenback inflation, and for the risky and speculative methods of Wall Street railroad amalgamation, whose excesses were justified only by their aggregate brilliant results, he had an inherent mistrust. He was a stubborn fighter but invariably a good loser. His resentment of the prohibition amendment, and his efforts for its repeal, were characteristic of his sturdy individualism...
...Ladies' Ways Daisy's older brother, in love with brilliant, sophisticated Muriel Eliot realizes that with grown-ups just as with children, a girl torments her lover because she loves...
...Rollo Peters. MERTON OF THE MOVIES - The pathos of hokum. Glenn Hunter in Harry Leon Wilson's adroit satire on the eighth art, adapted for the stage by Marc Connolly and George S. Kaufman. The movie industry amusingly " shown up " from supers to Will Hays. RAIN-A brilliant tract against militant Christianity in the South Seas. Jeanne Eagels as the attractive, hard-boiled demimondaine. U. S. Marines, real rain, and the hot, moist breath of the tropics. SEVENTH HEAVEN-A blacksnake whip and an off-stage rendering of La Marseillaise are the emotional assistants to Helen Menken...
Muratore sang before a brilliant audience reminiscent of the days before yesterday. Miss Garden stood up in her box and applauded frantically while the tenor's wife, Lina Cavalieri, looked on. Mrs. McCormick was in the box next to Miss Garden and gave evidences of divine friendliness...