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...constant source of displeasure and disappointment to him. And on July 13 large, capable Signora Toscanini lost her wedding ring, the next day broke her leg which has been so long healing that she was unable to go with her husband to the U. S. Without Signora Carla (his name for his wife, who always calls him "Tosca"), without his pretty daughters Wanda and Wally, without his pet griffon Picciu, he is alone save for a valet and Friend Max Smith, onetime musical critic of the New York American. Above all things he hates Manhattan's noise. He lives...
Paul Kirkwood was rich and married- to Claire, daughter of his father's financial partner. Claire felt the marriage without love, and she lugged away from Paul. It was while he was building the dam in loneliness that he saw Carla, strapping, kindly village teacher. Paul wrote Claire extolling Carla, which brought Claire post-haste to the forest-river country. There was an amiable picnic on the bank of the swift-flowing Mistassini. Paul fell in. "And then, on the cliff, one woman said to another: 'Are you going with him?' The woman spoken to gazed wide...
...What They Wanted-Under the Elms, where, in the four rooms of the famous sectional house, 1) The Show-Off makes love to Aloma (of the South Seas) ; 2) Helen Hayes-Cleopatra encourages the advances of George Arliss-Old English; 3) Robert Armstrong-Pugilist grows passionate with Lenore Ulric-Carla; and 4) Pauline Lord-Amy falls for Holbrook Blinn-Don José, until Joseph Schildkraut-Cellini enters and kisses each lady into a swoon...
...another infant has arisen. Pietro Mazzini, son of an Italian publicist and of the singer, Carla Benassi, is a pianist. The other day he played a program. "Nothing short of marvelous," said a French critic. This lad is only five...