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...nobody's business." She did not hurry out to Chicago for the great opening night, having contracted to sing in Philadelphia and Manhattan first. Her latest enthusiasm is one of Mr. Insull's "office boys," a young man named Hamilton Forrest who, unbeknownst to Mr. Insull, composed an opera and threw himself, as many other youths have done but without his languid charm, upon Miss Garden's bounty. "He is di-vine!" she says, kissing her fingertips as she has seen the French do. "And 7 discovered him! I have done as much for French composers...
...Anne Forrest (recovered from her motor crash of last fortnight) facilely creates the calcimined aura of a midway strumpet and Norman Foster's Bobbie is sufficiently naif. But the emotions and events of William R. Doyle's drama are all obvious and hackneyed. Simplicity without beauty makes for mediocrity...
...Davis all her life; Pierre Gustave Toutant-Beauregard, cast in an obligation of honor dark and ringing like bronze; Albert Sidney Johnston in the loneliness of early Texas; Captain Maffitt driving precarious steamboats, heavy with cotton, and priceless with morphia and powder and gold, into the blockaded night; Nathan Forrest charging at the head of his troops, with his great sabre ground to a razor edge; Belle Boyd, who was more dangerous, more destructive, than canister or solid shot; Jeb Stuart decorated with a rose, wound in a yellow silk sash; and John Worsham, a foot soldier with Stonewall Jackson...
...Anne Forrest, actress, about to open in Manhattan in Carnival, was last week hospitalized in Hartford, Conn. Cause: a limousine-taxicab collision. Said she: "I'd rather have had my arms and legs broken than have this happen to my face...
...White House Correspondents' Association-newsgatherers assigned to tell all the people all about their President and the White House-last week elected as their own president, Wilbur Forrest of the arch-Republican New York Herald Tribune; as vice president, Carlisle Bageron of the Republican Washington Post; as secretary and treasurer, Oliver B. Lerch of the Republican Wall Street Journal...