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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Another woman, Dame Clara Butt, 55, onetime famed contralto, had written Pen Man Shaw, asking him to do a preface for her forthcoming biography. Replied he: ''Good gracious! I'd never dare! You're a much bigger person than I. I should look like a ridiculous little busybody making a pretentious bow in your limelight. And, anyhow, what could I say of Clara Butt...
With this fanfare printed on the program, it was not unnatural to expect that him would be a totally tasteless bread pudding of the theatre, containing not even a raison d'etre. Such was what some of the critics who attended its initial performance discovered it to be: not quite sure whether the play had been successful in its attempt to understand them, they wrote scornful words which the box-office at least could not fail to find intelligible. Others, undeceived by the play's pretenses, by its dreary smut, by its fairly frequent lapses into complete...
...were exceptions to this tendency, notably the high price of $52,000 which was offered for Jean-Honoré Fragonard's glittering and beautiful self portrait, and the $16,000 brought by Josef Israëls' pretty painting, Her Treasure. Rembrandt's portrait of the Marquis d'Andelot putting on his armor went to the John Levy Galleries for $86,000; A Young Cavalier, by Frans Hals went for one thousand less. The second highest price of the evening was the $90,000 for which Frederick Bucher bought John Hoppner's cool and charming portrait...
...Bernarr ("Body Love") Macfadden, publisher of the New York Evening Graphic, Physical Culture Magazine, True Story, etc., went to Washington, D. C., lectured to 100 U. S. Congressmen in the House office building for 45 minutes on "Keeping...
...China, to get natives to buy kerosene, Standard salesmen sold lamps for less than a song, for a cheep as inebriates of Singapore used to say. Mei Fooy is the Chinese name for Standard Oil. Shouting Mei Fooy out loudly once saved the life of Lucy Aldrich, John D. Rockefeller Jr.'s sister-in-law, when in 1923 Chinese bandits captured her. It was the only phrase she knew; and the bandits, if they knew not its potency, knew its beneficence. They quickly released...