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...mother, Mrs. Anne ("Fifi") Stillman, is a gypsyesque person. On the Grande Anse estate in Quebec she moves about with her short dark hair in a bandanna and her legs bare and browned above mannish socks. She is a sort of Empress to the "primitives" of the surrounding wilderness. They do her lightest bidding because they regard her, informal and feline, as their equal on their own ground, plus much mysterious charm and knowledge from an unimaginable outer world of limousines, libraries, lingerie and grand manners. Her wealth seems fabulous to them, inspiring not envy but institutional faith. They prefer...
...correspondent from whom Mr. Lewis did not stalk away was Dorothy Thompson, curt, mannish, foreign servant of the New York Evening Post. They talked about the Vienna disturbance. "I wish I could see it," said Novelist Lewis, absently...
...Story. Dark, slender Gita Cartaret of Atlantic City had "a sound endocrine constitution." She wore her hair not shingled but shorn, wore mannish clothes (from B. V. D.'s out) and repulsed all male attention with a temperamental corselet of ice triplex. The reason Gita abhorred men and wanted to be one, was merely psychological. Fast friends of her brutal, gambling father had attempted her when young. Also, her mother had had a grievous cohabitation...
...laughter to see me do this, but thus far I have found none of them able to follow my lead." "Wearing the knee breeches of Octavian (a boy's part in Der Rosenkavalier) as they should be worn, worried me ... I am the farthest removed from being 'mannish' that a woman possibly could be. I practiced standing and sitting and moving about in my knee breeches, and walked miles in my room before I reached the point
...Bedroom Window. The main mystery in this mystery melodrama is whether the audience are supposed to take it seriously. It deals with the solution of a murder during which most of the cast act, at times, in the most exquisitely idiotic manner. Ethel Wales, for instance, portrays a mannish woman novelist, who smokes insidious cigarettes and solves the crime, principally by climbing across an apartment house court on an ironing board. Even May McAvoy, who generally seems real even when the rest of the picture goes hang, is made to appear just a goofy little birdie. At that, the picture...