Word: helier
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Lillie Langtry (Lady de Bathe), 76, of Monte Carlo, onetime actress and "toast of two continents"; of influenza; in Monte Carlo. Her real name was Emelie Charlotte ("Lillie") Le Breton. She was born in St. Helier, Isle of Jersey, the daughter of the very Reverend Dean of the Isle. She had six brothers. To the island, in a tempest, came Irish yachtsman Edward Langtry, son of a Belfast ship-merchant. He was offered refuge with the Le Bretons, fell in love with the gloriously budding daughter, married her two years later, took her to London. There...
...wooden pony, smartly blanketed, stands at the end of the gallery-a silent symbol of the stable. The room is rigged with saddles, flags, balls, mallets; scenes of the game and portraits of dead and living players cover the walls. A painted Prince, losing in the work of St. Helier Lander something of the incipient puffiness that sits upon the living one, gazes mildly down. Sporting scenes, because they contain balanced movement, a living impulse of clean speed, have always attracted artists. Degas, for instance, cultivated the paddock almost as assiduously as he did the salle de ballet...