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Like most Caesars, Blount Marvel is divided into two parts. His better half, Leda, was born more sophisticated than Blount will ever be, but she loves him for his pink & white good humor, his boyish manliness. When he is sent to Washington as Representative from a backward Southern State, Leda accompanies him, cooks, washes dishes, keeps their flat as homelike as Blount's narrow purse will allow. From a small glass works back home comes all his spending money. Leda fears that Blount's political career will be cramped, his radiant self-assurance dimmed. After a few days...
...ALMOND TREE-Grace Zaring Stone-Bobbs-Merrttl ($2.50).* When middle-aged but still lovely Leda, newly widowed & impoverished, brought her only daughter Marise back to the U. S. to try to live economically, she thought she had nothing to look forward to. Her formidable spinster sister, a little-seen portent in Washington society, took them in with unenthusiastic, sisterly hospitality. Marise was 16, knew nothing about her native country, was pleasingly thrilled when she got a job in an interior decorator's office. Leda made no move to look up old friends; sat in the house...
Then she met Zachery Westcott, young naval officer. They made a mutual impression, but Leda was as rude to him as possible, tried to keep from seeing him. When daughter Marise met Westcott she fell in love with him very quickly; Leda, blind where her daughter was concerned, never noticed it. Westcott fell half in love with Marise, but Leda fascinated him. Marise's aunt saw what was coming and tried to warn Marise; before she could, Leda announced her engagement. Instead of fainting, Marise went into the bathroom and was sick. After Leda's honeymoon Leda died...
Castor and Pollux, who were the products of Jupiter's miraculously unconventional affection for Leda and who were worshipped, by credulous Greeks, on account of their coincidental birth as well as their divine paternity...
...Leda (Newking),a lady who has been painted by Paul Veronese, Correggio and Michael Angelo, bends in heroic contemplation of a swan as sturdy as a duck...