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Next to St. Thérèse of Lisieux, the "Little Flower" of the Infant Jesus who died in young, frail sanctity in 1897, no woman of modern times is more famed among Roman Catholics than another frail young Frenchwoman who died in 1879. All the vast majesty of St. Peter's at Rome was needed for the ceremonies which will make a saint of Bernadette Soubirous of Lourdes this week...
Last week Hindu Shankar was back in New York dancing with every one of his slippery muscles. Again he had with him Simkie. a Frenchwoman almost as sinuous as himself, and nine Hindu musicians who sit tailor-fashion on the floor, tap swiftly and intricately on odd-shaped drums, thrum delicately on queer little fat-necked Hindu guitars. This week Shankar starts out on a tour which will take him to New England, then through the Midwest to the Pacific Coast, back through the South. In all he will give 85 performances, this season's record number...
...when President Brucer, wife of an unemployed carpenter, met Arthur J. Lynch during the Presidential campaign. Mr. Lynch, then a Dry pressagent for the Business Men's Prohibition Foundation, was plying his trade in behalf of the Republican ticket. Soon Mrs. Brucer discovered that Mrs. Lynch, a volatile Frenchwoman who once was a War nurse, was not "treating Mr. Lynch right." Mrs. Brucer rented a room in a Dearborn Street boarding house for her new-found friend, fed him. In return, he helped her prepare her temperance speeches, research alcohol problems. "All the men in the Business...
...variorum account. She marched into Woman's Court, declared that Mrs. Brucer and Mr. Lynch had "gone to a cabaret and gotten drunk." She charged alienation of affections and adultery. The Court permitted a disorderly conduct complaint to be lodged against the Dry crusader, later mollified the Frenchwoman with Mrs. Brucer's promise never again to see Mr. Lynch...
Chopin's Fantasia in F Minor by Marguerite Long (Columbia, 2 records, $1 ea.)-A Frenchwoman plays expertly the composer for whom the run of women-pianists seem to have the greatest flair...