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Indeed Mr. Fairbanks might have done as well as Mr. Truex had no been cast in the part which Truex does so naturally, the fawning, effeminate, degenerate, and heavily-tressed and dressed male in Amazon-land. For Mr. Truex though good, was not what he might have been. The most...
The Warrior's Husband (Fox-Lasky) is a farce about the Amazons, somewhat in the manner popularized by John Erskine. It shows them happily inhabiting a country where the men-mostly effeminate or superannuated-have the social position usually ascribed to ladies in the age of Victoria. Handsome young...
Some 30 years ago left-handed Auguste Piccard, gangling, mischievous Munich student, had a barber-shop shave, bet the barber that "his whiskers grew faster than any others in the world." Shortly after "he" reappeared at the barber's with an eighth-inch beard. The flabbergasted barber shaved, learned...
Casual concertgoers would have been surprised if they could have peered over the shoulder of Alfred A. Knopf some years ago and seen a letter which had come to him from Critic Ernest Newman in London. Publisher Knopf had asked his favorite writer on music to do a book on...
Confronted with a less profound problem than the claims to truth of science or of art, Herman Melville once exclaimed: "By the best contradictory authorities, this Grecian story of Hercules and the whale is considered to be derived from the Hebrew story of Jonah; and vice versa . . . If I claim...