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...sumptuous palace of a courtesan (Madame de Pompadour) the 13th President of France was inaugurated on Saturday the 13th last week, swore no oath, placed his finger tips upon no Bible...
...Selma Lagerlof-Doubleday, Doran ($3). Selma Lagerlöf (pronounced "Lahgerlef") has a broad, Scandinavian face with a broad thin mouth that is so straight it looks as if it turned down a little at the corners. She wears her grey hair piled up in a plain, old-fashioned pompadour. Her eyes are steely, steady. A little dimple in her left cheek keeps her from looking like a pretty grim old party. She was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature (1909). She is the only woman among the 18 "immortals" of the Swedish Academy. Reading...
Academicians need not have been surprised at a controversial picture from Charles Dana Gibson. Now bald and 63, he was the Peter Arno of the 1890's. From his nervous, scratchy pen sprang that sensational figure, the Gibson Girl, a majestic creature with an imposing pompadour, large bust and perfect Grecian profile. Women 35 years ago who did not look like Gibson Girls attempted to do so, just as their mothers had imitated the swanlike ladies of Punch's Illustrator John Leech, as their daughters ape the rowdy sirens of Peter Arno...
...different cast of first-rate performers for each presentation (an innovation). On good nights when it does not look like rain, he may pack his roofless house with 8,000 spectators-1,600 of whom get free seats. This season's repertoire includes: The Desert Song, Madame Pompadour, The New Moon, Blossom Time, Show Boat. For its first few years the project staged only light operas, such as Robin Hood, The Mikado, The Yeomen of the Guard...
...enclosing his picture. He has removed his Bessie-the-sewing-machines-girl spectacles, and in the flesh the hair is carroty-red and the freckles are many. You will not fail to take note of the elegant pompadour: the hair stands straight...