Word: cecilia
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...courts of Ferrara, Mantua, and Milan. Although small in scale, through the accuracy of modelling and characterization, they partake of the qualities of monumental works of art. One is apt to remember the sharp profile of Paleologus in the fantastic dress of Byzantium, the appropriately gentle likeness of Cecilia Gonzaga, and the strangely fascinating head of Leonello d'Este. We may see side by side the first proofs in lead and the later casts in bronze, in every case chased by the master's own hand...
...usual monstrously cut peg trousers, attends a house party, asks the guests what they want most on earth. The actress (Mary Nash) wants applause and to play Lady Macbeth; the painter (Ernest Cossart) to paint beautifully; the novelist (Ernest Thesiger) to achieve literary kudos; the minister's frowzy wife (Cecilia Loftus) to do her duty; the host (Arthur Byron) wants comfort; his lovely mistress (Diana Wynward) wants love; the disillusioned minister (Robert Lorain) desires advancement so that he may denounce God from the tip-top of High Church...
Married. John Logic Baird, 42, Scottish "Father of Television," managing director of Baird Television Ltd.; and Margaret Cecilia Albu, 24. British concert pianist; in Coney Island...
Blatant, big-hearted Mary Louise Cecilia ("Texas") Guinan and her blonde gang of greenback gatherers, well beloved in Manhattan, approached France on the French Liner Paris last week. Abruptly they were "barred from French soil," first kept aboard the Paris at Havre, then herded into a detention house half full of Polish immigrants and "legally outside of France." The Ministry of Interior, citing unemployment among French night club artistes, refused to admit competitive La Guinan et sa gang...
Warner Baxter, the physician of a thousand feminine patients, handles his role capably. "Cissy" Loftus, whose fame as a discuss was eclipsed only by Ruth Draper, plays the part of Aunt Cecilia well, but is chiefly memorable for her large black cigars, which seem to call up the spirit of Amy Lowell Victor Varconi turns in what is without a doubt the finest performance of the men in this film; one is led to wonder why he has remained so long in hiding...