Word: fans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lady Windermere's Fan. The difficult business of filming Oscar Wilde has been entrusted to Ernest Lubitsch with the assistance of Irene Rich, Ronald Coleman, Bert Lytell, May McAvoy. Perhaps the most exceptionally difficult task of the cinema is the transference to the screen of drawing-room comedy. Mr. Lubitsch has done it about as well as one could wish...
Part of the $3,000,000 collection of the late Senator William A. Clark of Montana was willed to the Metropolitan Museum, or, as an alternate, the Corcoran Gallery in Washington. Part, including Rubens' "Magdalene," Gainsborough's "Covered Wagon," Rembrandt's "Woman with a Fan," was left to his heirs. Last week the legatees announced that they would sell their share at auction in January in Manhattan...
...rains fell all along the French front, the forces of le Maréchal Pétain took up impregnable positions fanning out toward the Mediterranean from Kifane to a distance of some 20 miles. At the extreme northeast tip of the fan, French troops were reported to be in contact near Syan with a Spanish force (see SPAIN) which had advanced thither from Ajdir...
...VENETIAN GLASS NEPHEW-Elinor Wylie - Doran ($2.00). "Peter Innocent beheld a golden griffin lift his wings to fan the air; a stag of azure glass dappled with the same gold, stepped with a fairy pride across the expanse of Chinese lacquer which separated him from his mate, and the two, meeting, caressed each other with delicate gestures of affection. A hummingbird, with feathers blown in pearl color and crimson, flew from his perch, alighting on the leafy chandelier; the spray that received him bent and swayed and from its largest rose a petal drifted to the floor...
Trial. Lawyer Bryan, palm leaf fan in hand, collarless, led the prosecution forces into Court shortly before 9 o'clock. A few of the more courageous clung to their coats, but the heat soon overcame their vanity, with the exception of foppish, double-breasted-coated Dudley Field Malone...