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...mutilated passport picture of herself, with some notes scribbled on its back, 2) some British pounds and shillings, 3) a small silver mirror marked with the initials "V. L." Reporters were somewhat skeptical of the woman. One of the notes on the passport picture was the name of Elinor Glyn. A telegram to the famed novelist in California elicited the reply that she knew no woman of this description. One of the pressmen, the representative of The New York Herald-Tribune, thereupon refused to have anything more to do with the "victim...
...such- authentic shades already advertised, even to an ill-schooled generation. She (internal evidence fixes the gender) has but to draw about the rummaged bones their traditional glamour, judiciously intensified and sympathetically explained. So here we have a florid Woman's Byron, contrived by a rather superior Elinor Glyn, who assures the finicky that she departs from historic truth "never knowingly," without once removing her rapt and gleaming eye from the hungry hosts of spinsters and pensive wives who will embrace her hero, "so winning, so unwon," in raptures which the poet's fame will certainly excuse...
London. At the Royal Academy, Sir Frank Dicksee sold Daughters of Eve for ?500. Glyn Philpot got ?600 for A Street Accident in Paris...
Undoubtedly these alluring advertisements are giving Shakespeare a popularity he has never enjoyed before. Eleanor Glyn, Robert Service, and all the other pygmies who mistake an anthill for Parnassus, may swell with new clation at the thought that Shakespeare is competing with them. But this unwonted fame may turn the true lover of Shakespeare to cynical thoughts and remind him of what Bismarck said when he was hissed by the populace of Berlin: "If I ever attain any degree of popularity, I shall know I have done something incredibly stupid...
...Maid. Elinor Glyn has had millions of readers. Her stories should do for the same millions of see-ers. This one is Lew Cody play- ing a British Army officer who marries "his nurse...