Word: lorelei
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Prosperous German piano tycoons once battened on the parents of flaxen-haired fräuleins. Each apple-cheeked Lorelei of 1914, required, as her minimum working equipment, a revolving stool, a well-tuned upright, and hundreds of sheets of such saccharine music as Die Unglücklichen Herzen (The Unhappy Hearts). Last week a survey of the German piano business showed how strikingly frauleins and times have changed...
...gave Henry a subscription to the Book-of-the-Month Club, that tells you the book you have to read every month, to make your individuality stand out. And it really is remarkable, because it makes over 50,000 people read the same book every month." Thus spake Lorelei, in admiration for what she knew to be a Step Upward, and a long, free, women's stride toward Higher Things. Her simple admiration would be even greater had she known that the movement, toward selectivity in contemporary literature had only just begun. In 1927 there was no Crime Club...
...AFTER Lorelei Lee has married Henry Spoffard and become a family woman in a small way, she settles down to give a waiting world the low down on Dorothy, the tart brunette who sang bass in the earlier story. She traces Dorothy's education from her childhood in a carnival company to New York and the Follies and eventually to the altar (twice...
This book is longer and, we think, better than "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes." Writing about herself, Lorelei was too close to her subject. Writing about Dorothy, she loses much of the tinkling prattle and gains that large and impartial frankness one affects in criticising one's friends. The difference is, that this is biography, where the other was autobiography. Personal confessions are always good, but not so good as revelations made by somebody else...
...showing the rounded part of the famous knees, she may adorn the front page of the Mirror. She may return with the count whose title proved a misnomer at Monte Carlo. She may be hailed as the leading emotionalist of the stage, for all the world loves a lovable Lorelei especially if her diction is precious and her ankles thin. But though the world play suppliant at her feet, yet all this is as nothing if the keystone of her career has not been dropped into place. If the joyful tidings have not been shared in the corridors of Sever...