Word: elinore
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Just such a feat was brought off last week by an employe of the Pond's Extract Co. The Chicago Tribune published a full page in the current Pond's Extract series of testimonial-persuasions, the central figure of which was attractive young Miss Elinor Patterson, daughter of Major Joseph Medill Patterson, the Tribune's owner and publisher. In no uncertain words the Tribune's 1,020,427* readers were let into the secret of how Miss Patterson's "lovely skin with its rare petal texture, its flush of unfolding youth, its transparent delicacy" is kept "imperishable" in spite...
...Benet is a poet, hotly amorous of all words, ideas and images that appeal to the senses with clarity and elegance. He writes a rich historical tale in prose of the same genre as that which his austere sister-in-law, Elinor Wylie, put into her finespun web of intellectual silicon, The Venetian Glass Nephew...
...Brien's annual pronouncement to see what has been what in the short-story field, will applaud three rising young men this year, Barry Benefield, Nathan Asch, Glenway Wescott. The hardy perennials are welcome: Sherwood Anderson, Konrad Bercovici, Katharine Fullerton Gerould, Ring Lardner, Wilbur Daniel Steele and Elinor Wylie. Others: Sandra Alexander, Bella Cohen, Charles Caldwell Dobie, Rudolph Fisher, Walter Gilkyson, Manuel Komroff, Robert Robinson, Evelyn Scott, May Stanley, Milton Waldman, Barrett Willoughby...
...swept down blustery Michigan Avenue to the Auditorium, entered a cathedral and was struck with awe and wonderment. It found that Karl Volloemer's great pantomime, as presented by Messrs. Comstock and Gest, staged by Max Reinhardt and acted by Lady Diana Manners, Iris Tree and Chicago's own Elinor Patterson, was everything that London and Manhattan had said...
...Pringle is a leading lady for whom many discerning persons can rouse little enthusiasm. Perhaps it is because she so often plays in poor pictures, this one for example. It is about an English girl who for convenience married an English peer, who finally won her love, honor, obedience. Elinor Glyn is the author...