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Madrid. American Ambassador Ogden Hammond met Miss Elder and Pilot Haldeman at Getafe Airfield. Someone filled her arms with flowers. They lunched with the Royal Spanish Air Club; were visited at the Embassy by General Primo De Rivera, Dictator Premier; left by train for Bayonne, France, whence they would fly to Paris...
...Jonson, although he did not enjoy the title of Poet Laureate, was the first to occupy the equivalent position. Before him there had been versifier? to the king, for example Gulielmus Peregrinus, versificator regis to Richard Coeur de Lion. Sir William Davenant succeeded Jonson in 1638 in an identical capacity, and it was not until 1670, two years after Sir William's death, that Dryden became the first to hold the official title of Poet Laureate, an appointment that has continued to the present day. Poets Laureate since Dryden: Shadwell, Tate, Rowe, Eusden, Cibber, Whitehead, Warton, Pye, Southey, Wordsworth...
...next reference to cards was in the accounts of the Royal treasurer of Charles VI of France in 1392, where an item appeared for three painted "jeux de carte" for His Majesty. The painter Grinogonneux was commissioned to paint these gorgeous cards, of which there are examples at the Library...
...palatable dish with all the ingredients of good drama, well served, constitutes the piece de resistance at present on the Metropolitan menu. In fact it is hardly possible that Pola Negri of "The Woman on Trial" would not whet the jaded appetite of the most sophisticated of the devotees of the silver screen. And jaded indeed does the appetite of the average spectator at the average motion picture become; picture succeeds picture, plot follows plot with an abysmal shallowness of invention, and a dispiriting similarity of spirit. It almost seems as if the chief advance of the art were...
...Woman on Trial" differs very little in plot and invention from innumerable other pictures the reviewer could enumerate if he had a memory for names. Enough, that it plays in Paris with scenes from the Place de la Concorde and the Latin Quarter. It seems unnecessary to examine the plot further. In spirit, to use that nebulous word, it differs, however, from the other fruit on the family tree. That new spirit is due without any doubt to the presence of Pola Negri. She is not pretty the bathing beauty sense, yet it is perhaps her face which gives...