Word: deft
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President 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...
Harry Delmar's Revels. The process of glorifying one Harry Delmar, vaudevillian, was duly inaugurated last week. Dully, too, in spots. Other spots included a jovial pony ballet; a vulgar song that grossly libels the Revolutionary hero Paul Revere; various deft dancers; Frank Fay, one of the few high-voiced comedians who can induce hysterics...
...Birtwell's style affects the colorful and dramatic. By deft combinations of his typewriter keys he can invest an incident of seeming insignificance with an ours of mystery, a glamor of confidential secrecy, or a cloak of magnificent magnitude. At times he adopts, and very successfully, the attitude of an author of "Things I Shouldn't Tell". The fact that he never does tell them only renders his writings more interesting to the reader...
...upon Manhattan, its cap feathered with Mary Eaton & Oscar Shaw. Norman Bel Geddes scenery and a tune ("Thinking of You") were, many thought, even abler ingredients. The plot, that old dodderer of musical comedies, explained how a modiste's model married a millionaire. The jokes were moldy, the dancing deft, and the vast chorus uncommonly bewitching. Imbedded none too conspicuously in the generally unwieldy proceedings is an actor named Louis John Bartels, playing his first part on Broadway since he laid a just claim to fame as the blabbering, brilliant hero of The Show...
Early in the matches the strong, deft arms of Elaine Rosenthal Keinhardt, wife of Sylvan Louis ("Spider") Reinhardt (onetime footballer), eliminated Dorothy Page, defending champion. Mrs. Reinhardt, three times Western champion, became the favorite. But Bernice Wall, Oshkosh, Wis., suppressed Mrs. Reinhardt in the semifinal. In the other half, Mrs, Pressler squeezed out an early match with an eagle to beat a birdie and win, one up. Soon she trounced Virginia Van Wie, ranking player; broke par by a stroke to trounce Mrs. David C. Gaut in the semifinal...