Word: facings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mulatto makeup much of the time. Because the story, de pending mostly on character, is a strong one, because the background is unusually well directed, the picture is worth seeing in spite of several long, slow dialog sequences. Best shot: Miss Dresser making the no-good slap her face to impress her daughter...
Amazed friends who had believed Miss Claire engaged to Scenario-writer Gene Markey, and who had taken seriously Mr. Gilbert's avowals against further matrimony, accepted the announced wedding at face value...
...British Queen had held alone for 29 years, was the fact that California's Helen Wills, the world's most beautiful tennis champion, was about to be presented. The crowd swarmed like bees about the Rolls-Royce (borrowed) in which Miss Wills's Grecian "poker" face showed, beside her equally statuesque blonde California friend Harriet ("Hatsy") Walker. Unperturbed, while sweating policemen held back the crowds, Miss Wills sketched in a notebook. After a while she pulled the side curtains of the car, leaned back without disturbing the feathers in her hair, daydreamed. In the line in another...
...press, these astonishing appraisals produced country-wide reverberations. The world's auction room record for a painting was a mere $377,000.* The U. S. record was only $360,000.† The record for a private sale was $750,000.** Even this last figure, in the face of the announced appraisals seemed likely to be surpassed...
...breaking the U. S. record. But there was no feverish bidding, there were no great names. The picture was quietly repurchased by Sir Joseph Duveen himself. The Madonna and Child went to Leon Schinasi, Manhattan tobacco merchant, for a paltry $125,000. The auctioneer had to face the fact that between the appraisal total and the realized total was a difference...