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...result." Because she was lovely, and because she had a tormented understanding of the troubles of others, Gloria could live that life without losing an appealing quality that won people to her. The secret of her sins and her despair lay hidden in experiences in her childhood and girlhood, when men old enough to be her father had corrupted...
EUROPEAN EXPERIENCES ? Mabel Dodge Luhan?Harcourt, Brace ($3.75). Two years ago Mabel Dodge Luhan published the first volume of extracts from her Intimate Memories, dealing candidly with a girlhood in the upper circle of Buffalo and with first awakening adventures abroad. That book, like European Experiences, was drawn from a vast manuscript that has acquired a legendary importance: the complete story of Mabel Dodge Luhan's life and of the people she has known, not to be published in its entirety until all those who appear in it are dead. European Experiences is a selection of what...
...Farrar career has always been well planned, from the girlhood day in Melrose, Mass., when Geraldine impersonated Jenny Lind and attempted to dazzle her audience by singing an Italian aria. Her father was a storekeeper who played professional baseball in the summertime. Though money was scarce, Geraldine was determined to be an opera-singer. She studied in Boston and in Manhattan where she stood in line to hear Melba, Calve, Lilli Lehmann, Jean de Reszke. The Metropolitan offered to let her sing in a Sunday-night concert but, even at 16, she wanted something better. She persuaded her father...
...Being married to him kept me from enjoying any normal girlhood. I know it is too late now to try and go back and recapture the fine ecstasy of adolescence, but perhaps I may at least be a normal young widow now that poor 'Daddy's' death has removed the strange tie which has kept me from being either married or single through these eight years of separation...
North Bay, Ont., June 7--Dr. A. K. Dafoe, guardian of the Dionne quintuplets, tonight won one of his hardest battles in the struggle to launch the five tiny babies on the way to a sturdy girlhood...