Word: counts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Calvin Coolidge, Charles Evans Hughes, Will H. Hays and Mrs. Edward L. Doheny are among sitters who have sat for portraits to Howard Chandler Christy, deft and prolific creator of girl head covers for magazines. Last week Artist & Mrs. Christy reached Manhattan on the Italian Liner Conte Rosso (Red Count). Soon impertinent newsgatherers were asking: "Did you paint Mussolini?" Broad and smug came an answering smile from the left-handed little man who gets $1,700 for a magazine cover. Quietly he replied that among his luggage was a portrait for which Il Duce had posed three times. . . . Mrs. Christy...
...story definitely follows the outlines of what has been called "greatest novel in the world." Anna Karenina meets Count Vronsky one snowy day, has an affair with him that reaches its climax when she leaves her husband and its conclusion when she accepts a defeat (which is totally inevitable) by stepping in front of a fast train. That any film producer should begin by calling his picture Love and end it with this necessary but cinematically unconventional tragedy is only one of the many contradictions, which in their sum, make this one of the most striking adaptations yet effected...
There are four moments upon which the focus of the story falls: the snowstorm in which, after an accident to her sleigh, Anna meets Count Vronsky; the steeplechase in which he rides with the gay officers of his regiment; the moment when Anna Karenina, after she has gone away with her lover, creeps into the bedroom where her son is asleep; and the moment when, a vague figure in veils, she vanishes as silently as a bird's wing in the brightness of a locomotive's headlight...
...native London. Packed, he rings for a waiter that he may sup in his hotel room. The bell is unanswered. Septimius descends to the lobby. There he finds the other guests of the hotel in a state of considerable confusion. The entire kitchen staff has gone on strike. Count Veruda (of unknown antecedents) has asked everyone to join him at dinner on his yacht which is lying in the harbor. Some of the ladies have demurred through lack of confidence in the count. One of these ladies, Miss Harriet Perkins, confers with Septimius. Septimius suddenly discovers that he would much...
Then they meet the real owner of the ship, Lord Furber of Author Bennett's beloved "Five Towns," rich beyond reason. Count Veruda has been merely an instrument of the moment, used to entice Miss Perkins, Mr. Sutherland, or both into his gruff old master's clutches. Follow many pages of mystery while Lord Furber, Mr. Sutherland, and certain members of the crew vie for the nimble Miss Perkins' favor; eventually comes to light Lord Furber's motive. It seems that Mr. Sutherland holds an option on Lallers, famed dressmaking establishment; that Lady Furber...