Word: mabell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...authentic lilt and shuffle of that Broadway half-world whose deflated, hard-packed mirth had had no equal interpretation since the late Ring Lardner. Best scenes : the Lavillere staff, including the bartender, the bellhop and the maid, working on Oiwin's greeting-card orders; Patsy's girl Mabel (Joan Blondell) keeping Oiwin from going; home by showing him the specialty she did in the Follies...
...first volume told of Mabel Dodge's unhappy childhood in a prosperous Buffalo family and of schoolgirlish infatuations In the U. S. and France. Second, European Experiences (TIME, Sept. 30, 1935) told of her first two marriages, of establishing a meeting-place for adventurous spirits in her villa in Florence, included droll accounts of how she almost had love affairs with an Italian chauffeur, a British officer, as well as with poets, painters and poseurs of varied talent. Written with a queer sort of frozen-faced malice that did not reveal what the author thought of the highbrow foolishness...
Movers and Shakers, covering about five years of the ugly future, reveals that for Mabel Dodge the pace of pre-War U. S. life made such half-experiences impossible and drastic showdowns inevitable. Establishing a Manhattan salon at No. 23 Fifth Ave., she took the first decisive step of separating from her husband. Guests flocked to her salon, enmeshed her in their tangled affairs. Sculptor Jo Davidson brought Journalist Hutchins Hapgood, who brought Lincoln Steffens, who brought some young college graduates: John Reed, Walter Lippmann, Robert Edmond Jones, Lee Simonson. They were followed by Emma Goldman, "Big Bill" Haywood, Alexander...
Writing blandly but unsparingly of her friends, their affectations and misfortunes, Mabel Dodge Luhan's account of her grand passion is tolerable because she does not spare herself. Possessive, egocentric, feverishly jealous, she reproached Reed for paying too much attention to Italian architecture. Soon she was reproaching him for paying too much attention to other women, and writing angry letters to feminine friends she suspected of trying to steal him from her. Back in New York Reed dropped her a note: "Goodbye, my darling. I cannot live with you. You smother me. You crush me. You want to kill...
...Mabel Dodge's recoil from her strenuous experiences in the upper world and underworld of the Left drove her back to the circles of more conventional artists. She embarked on a tormented love affair with Artist Maurice Sterne, eventually married him. Despondent, impatient, she took to psychoanalysis, which she enjoyed as "a kind of tattletaling." Then she frequented Christian Scientists, mediums, mystics, quacks, Buddhists and other heathen healers, as her third husband drifted away. Reed died in Moscow, Haywood stayed in Leavenworth penitentiary, Lippmann edited The New Republic, and her friends of the dead Bohemian days went their painful...