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...Neysa McMein, artist, croquet expert, returned on the Aquitania to report the progress of the game in France. Said Miss McMein: "Croquet is now the vogue among the smart set. Americans are busy playing it. Dukes and princes . . . play badly...
Born. To Mr. and Mrs. John G. Baragwanath (Neysa McMein, famed magazine illustrator), a daughter (8½ pounds); in Manhattan...
Sued for divorce. Lydig Hoyt, of Manhattan, by Julia Wainwright Robbins Hoyt; in Paris. She appeared with William Faversham in The Squaw Man, has played with the Stuart Walker Stock Company and with Billie Burke, was named by Neysa McMein, famed illustrator, as one of the twelve most beautiful women in the United States. Earlier reports had stated that Mr. Hoyt too would...
...sketches are grouped ingenuously under two heads?"Enthusiasm" and "Resentments"; and there trip from the pages as variegated a group of characters as ever graced an Actors' Benefit: De Pachmann, Irving Berlin, Bernhardt, Neysa McMein, Booth Tarkington, Maeterlinck, "F. P. A." Mr. Woollcott burns incense at antithetical altars: Duse of the beautiful hands and the voice of moonlit magic, and in the very next chapter, Charles Chaplin, who "does not rattle around even in the word 'genius'"; and Elsie Janis, upon whom he has these many years kept "an often startled but always affectionate...
Three Miles Out. A considerable female triumvirate cooperated in the manufacture of this article. Anita Loos (one of the foremost title writers), Neysa McMein (illustrator, author), and Madge Kennedy. Since the latter was allowed to contribute her features as well as her brains she seemed the cornerstone. Many and far flimsier celluloid structures have been reared on less substantial bases. The pictorial narrative concerns itself with bootlegging, love and a woman's wit. It is more than moderately entertaining. When Miss Kennedy is on, it is decidedly exciting...