Word: mistressful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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LADY SUFFOLK AND HER CIRCLE-Lewis Melville - Houghton Mifflin' ($5.00). The light which this book diffuses on the dark ages of the early Georges shines like a beacon upon a dismal barren island. Lady Suffolk, Mistress of George II, is the lady of the lamp. In 40 letters upon which the author has based his work, she gives some choice sidelights on the social life of the time; and the author in his turn has been able to embellish them with many an observation drawn from his immense knowledge of the period. The reader learns that George...
Before sailing back to chivalrous France, Elise and Jules Jusserand, the mistress and master of the French Embassy at Washington, did a gentle and a Gallic deed. For 22 years, these two have represented France upon these shores ; and now, retiring to a well-earned rest, they wished to leave a suitable token of their affection...
...whose grubby touch has too often smutted the dress of their lady, Music. Last week, one Josiah Zuro, Presentation Director in a Manhattan cinema theatre, pointed to a way by which composers, by casting an eye to the education of that same grimy juvenile, might better themselves, serve their, mistress to boot. "The cinema," said he, "needs opera-thumbnail opera. It needs opera to take the place of 'presentations'." Who does not know these presentations? In that uneasy ten minutes which intervenes between the showings of pictures at big cinema theatres in Manhattan, Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago, San Francisco...
Their repertoire opened with L'Homme Qui Assassina by Pierre Frondaie. French fondness for dramatic triangles was elaborated in a pentagonal affair. The husband was killed; the wife learned to her dismay that she loved the man who betrayed her. Also implicated were a mistress of the husband and the murderer who loved the wife...
Most royal favorites have been the object of romantic interest rather than of affection. A pleasing exception is little Nell Gwynn, capricious blossom of the London gutters, mistress of light-headed Charles II. England has always loved the orange girl and actress of old Drury. She was said herself to have had a warm and kindly heart. Almost the last words of her cynical royal protector were said to have been: "Let not poor Nelly starve...