Word: misses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Foremost in interest among the exhibits is a series of letters to Miss Amy Lowell, one of which is a letter of thanks for her gift of her two-volume biography of John Keats. "You must not take any notice," writes Hardy, "of what the funny men of the newspapers say about the size of it and so forth; that's how they are, and it never makes any difference...
...fifth of the series of Sanders Theatre concerts of the Boston Symphony Orchestra will be given this evening at 8 o'clock. M. Maurice Ravel, the French composer, will lead the orchestra tonight as guest conductor. Miss Lisa Roma will be the soloist at tonight's performance...
Lovely Lady. For those who like Edna Leedom this is valid fun. Miss Leedom is blonde, slightly tough and in earnest. She has been in many a vast revue and is, no doubt, widely revered. Herein she plays a U. S. miss at large in France. She, pursuing a svelt and penniless French nobleman, is pursued by an atrocious English nobleman. A group of clockwork dancing girls do steadily astonishing things. There is a bed room. Of the French nobleman it is said that had Elinor Glyn seen him before she wrote It the book's title would have...
...Miss Brady plays a poverty stricken preacher's daughter. Desperate, when her worthy father loses his pastorate, she turns to evangelism under the canny tutelage of a red headed Bible salesman. She loves a worthless young man who stumbles into her temple tent just in time to be swept away by her passionate call for converted sinners. Later she must tell him it was fakery...
...Laugh. The stately figure of Fannie Hurst strode in among last week's horde of notables with plays for sale. Miss Hurst's play was concerned with Jewish matters, as was her great short story Humoresque, later acted by Laurette Taylor. The latest, inferior to Humoresque, is moderately well performed by Edna Hibbard. She marries a crook, reforms him. Her simple Jewish parents are much harassed by wealthy surroundings thrust upon them by an unexpectedly prosperous son who sells antiques...