Word: manner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Miss Moore lends a lovely voice and a telling stage-presence to a production that has been lavishly mounted in all of its fourteen scenes,--scenes which range from a salon of ill-fame in the Ziegfold manner to an ethereal ballet in the Garden of the Palace Luciennes. The play tells only the happy hours in the rise of the milliner Jeanne; and as the curtain falls, she is still The DuBarry, mistress of her fate and of her king...
Secretary Mills, fagged by a long campaign, insisted that there was nothing unethical in the manner of his reply, the gist of which was: "It is so easy to be wise after the event...
...AGAINST DEATH-Paul de Kruif - Harcourt, Brace ($3.50). True tales of little-known fighters against disease. THE CAT WHO SAW GOD-Anna Gordon Keown-Morrow ($2.50). Late great Emperor Nero takes possession of the body of a cat, settles down with an English spinster. Amusing in the English manner...
...through a passageway leading into a room which is a original furniture and decorations. Two other rooms correspond to the former living room and balcony, with a connecting foyer and stairway. In these rooms the paintings and other works of the collection have been placed in an informal manner, corresponding to the Farnsworth Room in Widener Library. This is in accord with the terms of the bequest, by which Mrs. Naumberg requested that as little as possible of the formal atmosphere be created...
Habitual patrons of Maestro Heckler's West 42nd Street establishment well knew the star performer who jumped through hoops, pushed a toy train, danced, juggled, kicked a ball and ended every performance by waving the flag of the Irish Free State in the manner of George Michael Cohan waving the U. S. flag. He was a bright red flea with black, roguish eyes, much larger than most male fleas. Few of his admirers knew that Paddy was not an Irish flea: he was found on a German sailor in Hoboken. Last week Dr. Heckler exhibited his fleas in Carbondale...