Word: metropolitanism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...notable ingredients in the gala week of Washington opera supplied social and musical excitement. Offspring of three presidents (Cleveland, Roosevelt, Wilson) sat behind stiff shirts or strings of pearls; French Ambassador Paul Claudel was advertised as a patron. On the stage appeared Mary Lewis and Jeanne Gordon of the Metropolitan; famed French tenor Maurice Capitaine, sent specially for the occasion by the French Ministry of Fine Arts, had arrived the day before Mignon. Plaudits for him perhaps surpassed those tendered Novelist-singer Christmas...
Social Welfare. Dr. Lee Kaufer Frankel, who has been with the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., created that company's welfare department, which has distributed millions of pamphlets instructing people, not necessarily Metropolitan policy holders, how to keep well, how to avoid illness. By education and organization and by co-operation with public health officials he has helped the good health of the entire country. The life insurance presidents gave to Dr. Frankel a clock and desk-set last week...
...worked with brush and palette at Port-au-Prince, painting in the streets, his models picked from among passersby, Artist Perfielieff became conscious that his work aroused not merely interest but indignation. What Metropolitan critics Would see as dazzling, grotesque or smartly degenerate the Haitians saw as libels on themselves. Finally the editor of Le Novelliste (Port-au-Prince) thundered: "If there existed a leper settlement, or sanitarium for paralytics, it is certain that this painter would probably go there in search of Haitian specimens. We suspect him of being one of those floating timber revolutionists that Russia has scattered...
...convinced that most of the people who profess to believe in it and who uphold it are hypocritical and shallow," stated Mae Murray, gorgeous blond Paramount movie star, in an interview last night with a CRIMSON reporter, after having just answered her curtain calls at the Metropolitan. "In order that this may not sound contradictory," she continued, "when one considers my several marriages, I can only say that I have always held matrimony sacred, and consider it indispensable to ultimate happiness in the intimate association of man and woman. However, marriage is not always successful, and I maintain that...
Gorgeous, golden, exotic Mae Murray is the cynosure of all eyes at the Metropolitan this week. It would be otiose not to sing her praises, because some of her charm and personality manages to transcend the tawdry banality of the Revue in which she appears, the ornate ensembles in which she is dressed, and the characterless puppets who support her. On the screen she had as distinct an individuality as Theda Bara ever had, but on the Metropolitan stage she was unable to glitter as in "Fascination" or "Peacock Alley". The romance of the Merry Widow waltz left the "Publix...