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Piccadilly (British). People who liked The Old Wives' Tale may be startled at the idea of Arnold Bennett writing a film for Gilda Gray. And people who liked the Follies of 1922 may think it odd that Shimmy-Dancer Gray would appear in a story by Litterateur Bennett. Yet there is nothing in the collaboration to wonder at. Having made her name with her hips, with increasing maturity Miss Gray now takes acting seriously, while Mr. Bennett, having begun with masterpieces, now writes pamphlets on health, testimonials for advertising and sentimental stories for the Saturday Evening Post. This Gray...
...book transactions of this magnitude it would be difficult to estimate the elements of litterateur, bibliophile and businessman in each buyer or seller. Certain it is that shrewd business instinct prevails to a large degree. People were aghast at the prices, at the possibilities of further increase. They pondered investment in books as against investment in stocks. They had good reason...
...twinkling-eyed, cherubic-countenanced old Irishman who grumbled thus, last week, is George Moore, 75, litterateur, epicure, and naughty-man-of-letters. Few smart, well-read folk do not know his Confessions of a Young Man; his great trilogy Ave, Salve, Vale; and his more recent elusively rich and moving Heloise and Abelard (1921). The trouble with these works is, however, that they appeal merely to a small group, select and perhaps elect. Not until last week did George Moore know the crude, earthy, tangible joy of having written a play which London proceeded to applaud, not merely from...
...Tully, hobo-litterateur: "The October issue of Vanity Fair was published, with an article by me on my late friend, Rudolph Valentino. Of his first wife I wrote: 'She was one of the many zeros in the arithmetic of life.' Of his second wife: . 'While living with her husband in Hollywood, Miss Hudnut became so dictatorial that men associated with Valentino in the making of films did not wish to have her about...
...Advocate seems to carry behind it a surer authority and a genuine masculinity. Abandoning abstraction, the creation of several new departments, the brightening up of the old, and a kind of general tone of health and vigor begins to call the languid clubman and the lily-fingered litterateur from their opposite poles and give them a common interest in an important undergraduate occurrence...