Word: jeanings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week Abie's Irish Rose came back to Broadway as a film. It was harmlessly funny. In fact, it was as well done as it possibly could be. Miss Nichols had aided Victor Fleming (famed director of The Way of All Flesh) in putting it together. Jean Hersholt as Solomon Levy (father of Abie) performed with dignity and feeling. The plot was slightly changed: Abie Levy (Charles Rogers) and Rosie Murphy (Nancy Carroll) get married secretly soon after the World War. Their parents' consent is not obtained until twins are born...
There were exceptions to this tendency, notably the high price of $52,000 which was offered for Jean-Honoré Fragonard's glittering and beautiful self portrait, and the $16,000 brought by Josef Israëls' pretty painting, Her Treasure. Rembrandt's portrait of the Marquis d'Andelot putting on his armor went to the John Levy Galleries for $86,000; A Young Cavalier, by Frans Hals went for one thousand less. The second highest price of the evening was the $90,000 for which Frederick Bucher bought John Hoppner's cool and charming...
...collection. The last was by far the most spectacular; this brought the total for the entire sale to $2,297,763, the largest amount ever returned at a U. S. art auction. The most notable piece purchased on the last afternoon was a small marble bust by Jean Antoine Houdon; the head was that of a plump and imperious baby girl, the daughter of the artist. The woman who got the bust was later discovered to be a buyer for M. Knoedler & Co., who in turn were probably buying for Mrs. Edward Stephen Harkness...
...produced by Mrs. Andrew Koger of Council Bluffs, Iowa, and her husband, Andrew Koger, carpenter. They have four sets of twins healthy and growing, named, according to the unfortunate habit of emphasizing the abnormality of twinship by imposing artificial likenesses, Clyde, Claude, Addie, Abbie, Floyd, Lloyd, Jean and Jeannette...
Last fortnight M. le Prefect of Paris Police Jean Chiappe released an interesting survey of the life of the gigolo based upon police investigation...