Word: jeane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...haired, silky-mustached seer who calls himself Shri (Mr.) Sadguru (Perfect Master) Meher (Compassion) Baba (Father). To his Indian co-religionists the Parsees, Meher Baba, 38, is the "God Man" or the "Messiah." To many another follower he is simply the "Perfect Master." His U. S. sponsors, Malcolm and Jean Schloss who await him at Harmon, think and write of him in uppercase: He, Him, His, Himself. Next week the God Man is to sail from England, will arrive at Meherashram...
From 1926 to 1929 the Minskys ran into palmy days. They advertised their show as the Folies-Bergeres of New York and were proud indeed of their "carriage trade": Otto Kahn. Horace Liveright, Frank Crowninshield. Gilbert Seldes, George Jean Nathan, who probably went to the National Roof less because it was like the Folies-Bergères than because it represented their country's one definite contribution to the theatre...
...cuckoldry, is expected to arrive soon. Just ahead of him arrives the great Otto Zeigen, the Rumanian millionaire (Mr. Perkins). That gives the amorists their chance to trick the husband once again. Actress Gish sets out to ensnare Zeigen, Actor Hull tries to charm a kitchen maid (porcelain-faced Jean Arthur of the films). Neither has much success at first. Zeigen, it turns out, is a man of frugal habits. He is ready for an onion sandwich and bed. The kitchen maid does not think Actor Hull "very interesting." However, next morning, Zeigen gets and willingly takes the spousal wrath...
...readers are to seeing Sunday magazine articles enriched by reproductions of classic paintings- often of Eves and Bathshebas nuder than Follies beauties-readers of last Sunday's New York Mirror magazine section blinked in bewilderment at the fertile genius of the make-up man who had coupled Painter Jean Francois Millet's famed '"Gleaners" with an article by Kathleen Norris. Substance of Author Norris' article was a complaint that employers are unfair to married women, fill jobs with unmarried women. "Idleness," pleaded the writer, ''and the lack of means of self-expression...
...from Java, jazz songs, songs so old that no one else thought of singing them, songs so new that no one else quite dared to put them on a formal program -in all Eva Gauthier has introduced more than 700 songs. Last week's program was typically distinctive. Jean-Baptiste Lully, court musician to Louis XIV, was a classical beginning far off the beaten track. Then there was Gabriel Faure, the French man who transmitted his fragile, elusive style to the more popular Maurice Ravel. Every song had its mood subtly, surely conveyed. Toward the end a ghoulish piece...