Word: idylle
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A young man partly blind meets a shopgirl on one of his walks, falls in love with her though he cannot see her face. But she is unable to stand up before his formidable Grandmamma, and their strange idyll is ephemeral.
Mr. Gilhooley. This play stands as proof that a novel can be successfully translated into the dramatic form. Frank B. Elser, longtime New York city-editor of the Associated Press, author of one worthy book called The Keen Desire, onetime (1904) co-editor with George Jean Nathan of the Cornell...
IDYLL'S END-Claude Anet-Dodd, Mead ($2.50). On a morning in January, 1889, in a shooting lodge at Mayerling, Austria, the bodies of Crown Prince Rudolph, heir to the great Dual Monarchy, and Marie Vetsera, pretty young noblewoman, were found by horrified attendants. Since then controversy has raged...
"How Girls Grow Wise" is the subtitle. The brief story is that of a Montmartre revue star-her love-affair with a young French lieutenant. Superficially neither an artistically promising nor a morally edifying subject, it grows under Author Colette's intuitive fingers into a completely charming, almost persuasive...
Everard Mulliver has inherited a very respectable grocery business in Bury St. Edmunds (can you ask what country?). But he has been through the War, has no family left, and craves the quiet contemplation of the countryside. He buys a cottage in a nearby village, intending to use it as...