Word: gemmed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Helene Mullins and Marie Gallegher-McBride ($2.00). Ronald Firbank and Daisy Ashford might well have collaborated to produce this picture of the perfect esthete in his home. Paulus was a teacher of French, a student of the graces. With his cat, the sympathetic Cez, he dwelt in a little gem of an apartment, surrounded by precious bibelots. Tragedy came into his delicately ordered life with the death of Cez and the suicide of Mimi, whom he knew only through her letters, but whom he did not have to know in order to love. Others of his loves were...
...program wound up with Victor Herbert's American Fantasy, a brass-band composition which galloped through The President's March, Way Down Upon the Swanee River, The Girl I left Behind Me, Dixie, Columbia the Gem of the Ocean, and finally, as both band and audience rose as a man, The Star Spangled Banner...
Inasmuch as the meaning of this last literary gem is not quite clear it is impossible to disagree entirely; and unfortunately it is impossible to disagree with the findings of the experts. Repetition to the contrary, the public does not know what it wants when it wants it. Fortunately for theatrical producers, each has faith in a fetish of his own which guides him in his guesses, and the most remarkable is George M. Cohans' requirement that a play must "hit me between the eyes," but no independent criterion has ever been...
Finally the children all sang some verses of Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean, and the concert ended with Rossini's overture to William Tell, who as everybody knows was the man who shot an apple off his son's head...
...knows what treasures may not be uncovered by the inquiring eye of the haunter of bookshops? Who knows what bibliographic gem may not fall beneath his searching fingers, what miraculous volume, lost through the years, may not turn up to give the thrill that comes once in a lifetime, filling his brain with the pride of discovery and his pockets with the gold of treasure-trove...