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...wing Paris, Berlin, Vienna. Keen on his subject, thorough, Loving visited every spot where Baudelaire is known or supposed to have been, made many a minor find exciting to scholars. Then he settled down on the Riviera to write his book, but never missed a chance of watching Suzanne Lenglen play tennis, of dancing with her. Well-known as a critic, he has also written a play, The Stick-Up. He is now at work on a long critical study of Baudelaire's work, which Publishers Brewer & Warren modestly announce will be "a somewhat fresh interpretation...
...Rumored reason: he had been jilted by one-time Tennis Champion Suzanne Lenglen...
...amid whistles and cheers after a six-year cruise alone around the world. He learned that the French Government had made him an officer in the Legion of Honor. Voyager Gerbault immediately went to Paris to see the Davis Cup matches (see p. 56). Present there was Mlle. Suzanne Lenglen, now a tennis professional, whose refusal to marry M. Gerbault is supposed to have driven him off on his travels. Last week M. Gerbault said: "I think I shall stay ashore for a while now." When he does sail again he will go to live and die in Polynesia, "most...
...cold, feline accuracy of the Wills game. Helen Wills knows that the best Jacobs shot is a cross-court backhand. Rarely was Helen Jacobs able to use it. There was no drama as once there had been when Miss Wills, winning, was suddenly unnerved, defeated by the swarthy Suzanne Lenglen, who found new strength and boldness by drinking a glass of brandy. Helen Wills last week was simply the best woman tennis player at Wimbledon and she won. She played, in all, twelve sets of singles, losing none, dropping only 16 games...
...junior singles champion ship. Before she was 17 she drove back the shots of burly Molla Bjurstedt Mallory and became champion of the U. S. Two years later she met her most glorious defeat at Cannes at the hands of swarthy, turbaned Suzanne Lenglen, most graceful of women tennis players, now a professional. Followed a Paris operation for appendicitis and the Wills tennis for a while was slowed. Now she again leads all women players...