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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first act is rather tiring, though from time to time the explosion of a good gag recharges the air. Eddie, the little East Side song plugger is drafted and-runs off to Armentieres, but that basic development takes almost an hour. There is of course, his sister's boy friend whom he distrusts, who he later finds ain't done right by her, and whom he chances to meet again in a shell hole...
Time: Two days later at 2 p. m. (The delegates had wished to assemble for their first official session at 10 a. m. but Mr. Morgan demonstrated the impossibility of such an arrangement by stating that at that hour he would be attending the funeral of an old friend, Mrs. Annie Murray Dike...
...relentless person, chilled of blood, chiseled of expression. She marries George Tesman because, as she reluctantly admits, her day is done. Tesman, an ultimate conception of the paperbound pedagog, is counting upon a professorship to offset Hedda's extravagances, when he learns that Eilert Lovborg, his onetime friend, has renounced debauchery, published a history of civilization, and may be regarded as a competitor for the professorship. Lovborg, however, reassures George that he is satisfied with his moral victory over vicious diversion...
...Winthrop Williams Aldrich announced that he and his colleagues held proxies for 51% of the stock of Standard Oil of Indiana, or enough to enable Mr. Rockefeller Jr. to win the fight and oust Col. Stewart. Mr Aldrich is a son of the late Senator Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich (oldtime friend and intimate of Mr. Rockefeller Sr.) . . . the younger Aldrich now attacks for his impregnable brother...
...from an original." Of the Lardoux painting he said: "The neck is a clumsy cylinder of flesh . . . there are unnatural plates of flesh . . . faulty construction, faulty anatomy." He pointed to "poor" shadows, an off-perspective eye, awkward drawing. He defined technique as the "handwriting" of an artist whereby a "friend" can always recognize his work. Leonardo, he felt, could never have been a botchy anatomist, nor did the picture reveal his technique...