Word: elinore
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CREWE TRAIN-Rose Macaulay -Boni & Liveright ($2). The title simply means, from a British catchphrase, "wrong train." Denham Dobie, daughter of a peace-loving British cleric, grows up barefoot in a remote Spanish hamlet with a native stepmother and half-breed half-sisters. Her father dies. Her aunt, the Elinor Glynnish wife of a smart London publisher, "rescues" the reluctant orphan, who makes no head nor tail of her relatives' civilized occupations: incessantly scribbling books or about books, doing things they dislike because others do them, concerning themselves with every one's private affairs, eternally gibbling, gabbling. Give...
...great success in London and is being tried on Boston as an acid test, bring in the cake. The confectionery is a veritable plum pudding, filled with excerpts from the works of all authorities on women beginning with Adam. Shopenhauer, and H.L.M., Bernard Shaw and Havelock Ellis, Freud and Elinor Glyn contribute each his plum...
...these, much touted songs, the hit of the show, taking it for granted that the producers will force Fair Lady down the threat of Broadway, will probably be "It," a very clever adaptation of Elinor Glyn's article on sex appeal. Has she got it? Then she doesn't need good clothes, good looks or even a good name. She's there Miss Mildred Parishette, the heroine of the show, just hasn't got IT. In riding breeches, she almost captures IT, but when she appears as Margarite, she looks like a debutante at the end of a hard winter...
...Married. Elinor Balke, daughter of Walter Balke of the Brunswick- Balke-Collender Co. (billiard tables, radios, phonographs); to Morton L. Schwartz, Manhattan financier; in Manhattan...
...asked, "didn't someone quietly drown Rudolph Guglielmo (alias Valentino) years ago? . . . Chicago has its powder puffs; London, its dancing men, Paris its gigolos. Down with Decatur; up with Elinor Glyn. Hollywood is the national school of masculinity. Rudy, the beautiful gardener's boy, is the prototype of the American male. Hell's bells! Oh, sugar...