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Other famed Washington women who might inscribe illuminating monographs in Paulina Longworth's memory book are: Mrs. James W. Wadsworth Jr., who fought against woman suffrage; Mrs. Harry S. New, amateur cinema exhibitor; Mrs. William E. Borah, mouselike in comparison with her tigercat husband; Mrs. John P. Hill, stylish wife of a swanky husband; Mrs. William Howard Taft, music critic and enthusiast; Mrs. Curtis D. Wilbur, able cook; Mrs. Frederick H. Gillett, wife of a Senator and one-time widow of a Congressman, hence, interested in politics; Mrs. Louis D. Brandeis, who writes poetry; Mrs. Frank B. Kellogg, able...
...Party in the U. S., owners of the right to Polykushka, refused, for political precautions, to allow the picture to be revealed. A few months ago, they were prevailed upon to permit M. Nelidov to show his work. Then came weary months of pavement-pounding in search of an exhibitor. Finally, the Fifth Avenue Playhouse took the film under consideration. One bright day, the directors telephoned the good news to M. Nelidov at his dingy rooming-house. His picture would soon be seen by a U. S. public. From the other end of the wire came a guttural voice, "Nelidov...
...operated on a cash basis. Not one of the 45,000,000 people who in the course of any week visit the 20,250 U. S. theatres would think of giving his promissory note. Admission fees-$700,000,000 last year-are in current money, money that flows from exhibitor to distributor, to producer, to investor-cash, cash. The cinema, with yearly income 50% of its total investment, is a stable, an important industry. And the most important figure in it is a little man, Adolph Zukor, who last week gave a smiling, chattering welcome to his friends-bankers, actors...
...youngest exhibitor was Tony Ricou, 13, son of Director Georges Ricou of the Opera Comique. He paints on Sundays and Thursdays when there is no school, and the National Society of Fine Arts accepted one of the two pieces he submitted-a modest but careful exercise with fruit in a bowl on the Ricou dining-room table...
Said Mrs. Phoebe Stabler, woman exhibitor in the Royal Academy: "Whether centuries of repression are responsible for the fact that women have produced no great art, or whether the fact that they have produced no great art is responsible for their centuries of repression is a de batable question. In the past, women have made children instead of art the end of their creative impulse. In the future, there is no reason why the world should not see great women painters." A swaggering Rubens in rolled stockings? A Titian in a toque...