Word: derelictions
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...sent back drawings from the front during the Civil War which made the reputation of Harper's Weekly. Every schoolboy knows him today for his vivid canvas, The Gulf Stream, in which a giant Negro is sprawled on the deck of a mastless catboat while sharks circle the derelict. Suave Socialite Edwin Austin Abbey used to have almost as much trouble with his models as Eakins. One of the most popular illustrators in the U. S., he was paid $200 and $300 apiece for his drawings by Harper's Weekly, but spent almost as much as that...
...delicate sense of pity, which the Playgoer possesses despite all evidence to the contrary, influences him to pass over the other picture "Lady by Choice," with but a cursory comment. May Robson, as Paisy Patterson, a been sodden derelict who plays the role of cupid to a bewildered couple, confirms a suspicion that she missed her calling when she tried the movies...
...suicide because her lover deserts her. In the next scene Janet Evans arrives in a lobby next to Heaven and begins to read the histories of the lives which would have been bound up with hers if she had stayed on earth: a disheartened Kansas City playwright; a female derelict whose seducer has abandoned her in Montreal; a cardsharp and the banker's daughter he is scheming to marry; a young socialite condemned for murder; a Manhattan play-boy and his mistress. Only in Act II, when she comes to read the projection of her own life...
...would have helped the playwright by appearing in his play. At a party after the opening night in Atlantic City, the brother of the Montreal derelict would have recognized in the cardsharp the villain responsible for his sister's disappearance. The playboy would have fallen in love with Janet Evans and this, by a roundabout chain of circumstances, would have saved the life of the convicted murderer. So carried away is Janet Evans by these glimpses into her discarded future that she is horrified when the Kansas City playwright, who would have been her husband, walks into Heaven...
...year, however, with the progress of Roosevelt recovery and the coincident rise in the birth rate, the squirrels have repeatedly threatened to overrun the Yard. Stringent measures have indeed been necessary to keep down the slate colored hordes, and to prevent the steady demolition of the foundations of such derelict edifices as Brooks House by the eroding action of countless razor-sharp molars...