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...life, Reynolds frightened him. In the first place, Romney had been born behind the vulgar door of trade. His father was a cabinetmaker. Reynolds was of the gentry, a clergyman's son. And Reynolds would take for mistress nothing less than a duchess with ten quarterings, while Romney had only Emma-gentle Emma Hart, who later became Lady Hamilton, whom he was forever
...slyest of flattery; he wooed her "parts," her "unsuspected powers." ... So writes generous E. Barrington-L. Adams Beck, the double-barreled lady who has lately risen to fame as an expositor of Oriental mysticism (Splendour of Asia, The Ninth Vibration, etc.) and simultaneously as biographer of the Duchess of Fenton (The Chaste Diana), Lady Hamilton (The Divine Lady) and Poet Byron (Glorious Apollo). Her periods billow out like fussy, over-embroidered crinolines when she is in her role of sentimental raconteuse, but the historical reconstructions are superb-Playwright Sheridan scratching his wig for the fourth act of The School...
...five other female M. P.'s are Viscountess Astor, the Duchess of Athol, Mrs. Hilton Philipson, Miss E. Wilkinson and Miss Susan Lawrence...
...SUNKEN GARDEN-Nathalia Crane-Seltzer ($2). With a poet's precision it is told how, on Nov. 23, 1924, the 16-year-old Duchess of Kendal, later to be known as Orena, was cast upon an Afric isle when her yacht was riven with electric bolts from an oxeye tornado. There she found another "bantling of fate," whose Nordic features suggested that he was an atavism, or at least a primeval anachronism; in any case, a monad. Soon he was able to convince her, however, that he was descended from the Child Crusaders of the 13th century, of noble...
...commoners shouted and so did even the Duke of this and the Duchess of that. They called her back again and again after each curtain; gave her a riotous ovation when Lord Stanley of Alderly, chairman of the Royal Colonial Institute, presented her with a gigantic floral display that filled the entire stage, a floral kangaroo, emblem of her native Australia in the centre, flanked by British and Australian flags. She tried to thank them: "Covent Garden . . . the dearest place I know . . . my public . . . dear old Austin, who for 36 years has been at the stage door and helped...