Word: homeyness
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...talk of monumentalizing the poet. In Manhattan, meanwhile. Justin Sturm, famed ex-Yale end ('21). ex-novelist. Westport, Conn.'s most popular sculptor, had an exhibition at the Karl Freund Galleries in which a wonderful lack of subconscious or other depth (see col. 2) appeared in several homey, well-finished studies...
...plump, homey individual, as different from Soprano Farrar as Pilsener is from champagne, Soprano Lehmann writes much better. The daughter of a small town bookkeeper who wanted her to be come a respectable stenographer or school teacher, Lotte Lehmann made a very gradual climb to stardom, worked her way laboriously through bit parts at second-rank German opera houses. It was not until the London Covent Garden season of 1923 that she won international fame. But once won, that fame stuck like well-swabbed glue...
...lecture can sound. How vast and impersonal and uninterested the Union can feel. How suave and learned and acquainted everyone else can seem when you are the only one in a New herd. The wind, the light, the air, the very atmosphere, are different from the Old, the homey kind. College is like that, the Vagabond reflected--like moving into a New room...
...Boston's cinema houses offer one excellent picture and several more worth the dissipation of a few hours. Most appealing to this column is Warner Brothers' "Four Daughters", at the Metropolitan, which stars the Lane sisters, Claude Rains, and John Garfield. As yet it marks the best of the "homey" stories with which Hollywood has been recently concerned, having more originality and better acting than the successful "Love Finds Andy Hardy." Garfield, whose first name on Broadway was Jules, is without question the most distinctive, actor to be acquired by the movies this year. On the same program is "Campus...
...conversation revolved, made her think "I was going to grow a coating of moss on the north side." but she liked the green countryside. She ridiculed the diminutive look of England (''the locomotives are only about thirty-four inches around the bust"), but came to like the homey atmosphere it gave. Oppressed by ''that death-in-life which the Britons . . . like to call English reserve," she nevertheless liked its complement, "the cream-of-mushroom-soup texture" of English leisureliness. And reserved children, after her friends' progressive-school brats, were a relief...