Word: gabrielic
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...drawing room is Louis XV period, so must be the picture. Since many drawing rooms are modern, with Oriental motifs, many pictures are done in ultra-modernist style, all attention given to pose and expression, costumes indicated by a few strokes with oriental backgrounds. Fernand Goin, Jean Gabriel Domergue, Van Dongen are reported to be doing many portraits of this kind. "They have their sittings booked for months ahead, like fashionable dentists...
...cantor of that particular synagog, one Gabriel Alaro, is a handsome man of 30, a widower, twice a father. Gabriel's eyes are "big as baseballs," round and black. Gabriel's voice is sweet and deep. Gabriel's locks are long, angelic...
Princess Juliana of Holland is 15. Her holiday in Amsterdam has ended. At court, one does not talk of synagogs before Queen Wilhemina, nor of cantors, nor much of folk named Gabriel. Princess Juliana of Holland...
...Cleopatra. . She screams she can't go on, and then does. In the last act, her husband turns out to be unfaithful. She leaves for England-a great actress but a failure in the home. All this is told very seriously, and with a singular tedium. Gilbert W. Gabriel-"Doused in trite, puff-cheeked sentiments, only now and then cured by humor." Alexander Woollcott - "A gaudy chromo, evidently selected because it provided so many emotional crises in which to exhibit the sundry talents of Miss Florence Reed." Heywood Broun-"I am not at all sure that the ashman would...
Gilbert W. Gabriel-"It it does not seriously threaten the traffic in travelers' checks, (it) puts an aureate lily in either hand of the Statue of Liberty...