Word: joking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Alfred Robaut, most authoritative compiler of Corot material, records 3,222 Corots. A hoary art joke states that the U. S. today has no less than 30,000. Average value for a good genuine Corot is $20,000. After the painter's death in 1875, 600 of his paintings were auctioned at the Hotel Drouot in Paris for $400,000. But Corot was 51 before he sold his first painting...
...early summer James P. ("Jimmy") Donahue, fabulously rich & prankish young Woolworth scion, thought of a good joke he could play on his cousin, fabulously rich & serious Princess Barbara Hutton Mdivani. His friend Marilyn Miller got Chorusman O'Brien to let him take a part in As Thousands Cheer one night. At the proper moment, when Marilyn Miller was impersonating Barbara Hutton in a skit, ''Jimmy" Donahue minced onstage in a princely uniform, fawned over the lady's hand. No one in the audience noticed the substitution, but it was the last straw for the managers...
...minutes before the play's end a pert usher in a pert brown cap and close-fitting brown bodice utters her first and almost her last line: "Gee whiz, Mae was like delirious. She kept laughing and saying it was a big joke. Her baby's got no father." The pert usher is played by Jean Bellows, daughter of the late great Artist George Bellows...
...after giving due credit to Mr. Cram, who is Professor Merriman's assistant in History 1, for his work in helping organize the course, the latest subscriber to the Confidential Guide to Freshman Courses," went striding up Plympton street still chuckling over this great joke on him. Transcript...
...faith in God and man. He ferrets out Nephew Romney's deep tangled secrets, laying him bare and vulnerable, enjoys exposing the boy to a crass prostitute. Weasel-like, soft-footed, he discovers that his spinster sister's love letters are written by and to herself. He relishes the joke, pretends to sympathize, but uses the knowledge to get money out of her. Even the servants are not exempt from his influence...