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What keeps The Distaff Side from slip ping into mawkishness is Sybil Thorndyke who seems to imbue her acting with a extraordinary personal warmth and to make the play a cameo-clear portrait of a fine and gracious woman...
...nice old priest. He admired the priest's pretty hat, his shiny jewelry. Could he play with them? The kindly-faced priest smiled assent. Small John Kennedy donned the red cloth biretta of a cardinal, jingled a golden cross on a massive chain, slipped a cameo ring on his big finger. Then John's father, New York's Representative Martin J. Kennedy, devout Roman Catholic, protested such impious play. But Alexis Henry Cardinal Lepicier said: "Why not? Nothing is more blessed than that which is touched by a child...
...winner who has enough spare breath during the race for a steady stream of quips and japes; Roger Lapébie. bashful young Bordelais who won seven major events in 1933; Antonin Magne, laconic Auvergnat farmer who is called "The eternal runner-up''; Charles Pélissier, cameo-profiled idol of schoolboys. Dashing, excitable captain of this year's French team, Pelissier has won important races for ten years, never the Tour de France. Half of France hopes he will come in first; the other half prays he will finish last...
Four of the best U. S. miniaturists showed their year's work. Outstanding was a clear, shining portrait of a cameo-featured young woman in a ruff collar, by last year's medal winner, Artemis Tavshanjian, 29-year-old U. S.-born Armenian. Last week's winner was Mabel Welch, for her painstaking profile of an old man. Margaret Foote Hawley offered a prim, pale portrait of Rosemary, wife of Poet Stephen Vincent Benét. Nearly everything in the show, marvelously smooth and glowing with flesh colors, was pretty enough to be enlarged for a popular...
Last week in the Cameo Ballroom of the Hotel Morrison, speakers of all creeds and colors, many of them world-famed, arose one by one. Before the sessions ended there were to have been 263 of them...