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...Segal can turn out sparkling lines, all of conceit and interesting rhymes.... Through Mr. Segal and Mr. Raposo he new Harvard generation may move into Broadway as authoritatively as its predecessors swarmed into Washington." The New Yorker called the show "a refreshing musical comedy" with its beater critic Edith Oliver adding. "What found irresistible was the music--sometimes like early, what-the-hell Dodgers, sometimes like early happy-go-lucky Loesser, sometimes like a parody of later inspirational Rodgers...
Died. Mrs. Edith Boiling Gait Wilson, 89, stately widow of President Woodrow Wilson; after a long illness; in Washington on the 105th anniversary of her husband's birth and within hours of the dedication of the new Woodrow Wilson Memorial Bridge over the Potomac. A Virginia-born belle descended from Pocahontas, Edith Galt entered Wilson's circle through her friendship with his daughter, married the World War I President in the White House on the eve of the hard-fought 1916 election campaign, became his cherished confidante during the taxing war years, shared both his triumphant postwar tour...
From her forthcoming book on the most vexing associates of her 74 years ("Once famous, one is subjected to nothing but insults"), Dame Edith Sitwell, grande dame of Britain's most imposing and impossible literary family, leaked the first bit of spleen: that D. H. Lawrence would be among her major targets for setting his Lady Chatterley's Lover at the Sitwell estate in Derbyshire and modeling the novel's war-maimed, cuckolded baronet after the elder of her brothers, Sir Osbert. "My brother," noted the Plantagenet-descended poetess, "is a baronet, and he fought like...
...Great Forgery, by Edith Simon. The hero of this ironical novel, a scruffy old painter who forges a Holbein to show the art experts up as Philistines, is a fine, randy character who bears a strong resemblance to Joyce Gary's Gulley Jimson...
...Great Forgery, by Edith Simon. The hero of this ironical novel, a scruffy old painter who forges a Holbein to show the art experts up as Philistines, is a fine, randy character who bears a strong resemblance to Joyce Gary's Gulley Jimson...