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...luxurious and presumably peaceful retirement in Pittsburgh to play Little Buttercup. She weighs three times what she did when she was the queen of the old Weber and Fields music hall. The audience, boisterously affectionate in their greeting, agreed with the captain of the Pinafore that she was "a plump and pleasing person...
...Gould, for 19 years the world's court tennis champion, appeared on the front pages of several metropolitan newspapers. The story of his life and his athletic successes was recounted with much picturesque detail, prefaced by the sad particulars of his recent and disastrous illness. His photograph also?a plump, animated, swarthy face with a short mustache and a very round high forehead?was published near the stock photograph of Henry Miller, the actor (see MILESTONES), who had died on the same...
TINSEL?Charles Hanson Towne?Appleton ($2). Author Towne has been moved to chronicle a Midland social climber; how she scrambled as high as Newport and Palm Beach, barked her plump shins and returned at last to the shade of the family awning factory in Eureka. Her son, daughter and husband suffered in kind. The idea was to make it a gently humorous tale, and the Eureka Independence Day tableau starts things off well?Delia Nesbit, the awning queen, as Miss Columbia, and other Eureka dames assigned states according to social pedigree. But too many of the author's other ideas...
Some weeks ago a plump little man entered the office of the U. S. Consul at Melbourne, Australia. Said he: "I am about to portray the role of Abraham Lincoln in Mr. Drinkwater's play of that name, which we are shortly to produce at the Melbourne Repertory Theatre. May I ask your advice as to the playing of the role...
...Consul's office is a man of suavity and tact. He showed his plump questioner a portrait of President Lincoln, a tall, full length portrait. He hoped it would sink...