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...restaurant, opened another, built up his business until he had put "a chain around England." Meanwhile his prostitute died of consumption and Julius learned to like good living. He married a well-born Jewess named Rachel, had affairs with actresses until he was 50. After that his daughter, Gabriel, became his inamorata. When she fell in love, Julius, a lonely old man tasting the futility that in most aphorisms is indelibly associated with using selfish methods to become a millionaire, crept off to Paris to die. Granddaughter of the du Maurier who wrote Trilby, daughter of Actor Sir Gerald...
...amorousness or strength in Tony's character. Unlike most lengthy British character studies, the novel does not report the rigors of Tony's adolescent schooldays. He appears to have sprung full-born into a family in which the father deified Darwinian Science while the mother deified Dante Gabriel Rossetti. In the midst of all the Edwardian amenities of an upperclass household, Tony came to the conclusion that neither his father nor mother was totally right or wrong, "but if you went to life with all your senses open, with your body as well as your mind, with your...
...magnificent hodgepodge. The great central hall, three stories high, was largely Italian. There was a Louis XVI salon, an Indian room, a Moorish room where the rugs were impregnated with rare perfumes. The grand ballroom was plastered with a splendid collection of French paintings. The murals were by Gabriel Ferrier. But what most impressed a Chicago still living close to the stockyards was a private elevator and the report that the huge castle was burglarproof. The doors had no outside locks, no knobs. The only way to get in was to be admitted from the inside. And Mrs. Potter Palmer...
...case." Because Actor Tone lacks the flamboyant physical characteristics which Hollywood most prizes he has been almost as much of a problem to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer as Critic Young anticipated. So far he has been a tongue-tied torpedo launch lieutenant in Today null a hero-worshipping secretary in Gabriel Over the White House ; and, currently, an aristocrat with indecision. Nonetheless, in parts which have had none of the richness of his stage roles, he has given three performances each of which possessed a shade more than the mechanical competence which Hollywood demands of subsidiary performers. Son of Frank Jerome...
Whereas "Pleasure Cruise" makes few pretensions and succeeds very well, "Gabriel Over the White House" starts with all manner of ambitions and dithers to an ineffectual and sentimental close. Its merit is mainly in its technical and intellectual innovations; its conclusions are barely worth attention...