Word: portraits
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Chateau Historique" is a comedy in three acts. Marguerite Baudoin, the heroine, after reading some novels by Paul coudray, discoves a strong attraction to him. She writes to his publisher for a portrait of him, which arrives while her husband's best friend, Claude Barrois, is showing him some pictures of a trip. The husband's exchanges it for one of Barrois and introduced the latter as Coudray in order to depreciate his character. His success is interrupted by the arrival of Marguerite's brother Ludovic, who knows Coudray well. Marguerite shows him the picture and he discovers the trick...
...Chateau Historique" is a comedy in three acts. Marguerite Baudoin, the heroine, after reading some novels by Paul Carat, discovers a strong attraction to him. She writes his publishers for a portrait of him, which arrives while her husband's best friend, Caude Barrois, is showing him some pictures of a trip. The husband exchanges it for one or Barrois and introduces the latter as Coudray in order to depreciate his character. His success is interrupted by the arrival of Marguerite's brother, Ludovic, who knows Coudray well. Marguerite shows him the picture and he discovers the trick. He, however...
Harvard University has recently presented to Yale a portrait of the poet and geologist, James Gates Percival. Percival was a graduate of Yale in the class of 1815, and a most picturesque personage. The portrait has for many years hung in University Hall...
...vastness but very little more; Mr. Cummings's "Sonnets", too, full of fancy as they are, defy a close search for the meaning. "Sas Agapo", by Mr. Reinhard, is clear enough, on the other hand, but a little thin. The best poem in the number is Mr. Thayer's "Portrait", full of imagination and music, but better yet, full of a real tenderness and awe that make one forget the "ivory glee" of the lady's smile, and certain stumbling lines...
...portrait of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, by George Healy, the property of Mrs. A. V. S. Anthony, of West Newton, has recently been placed on exhibition on the south wall above the piano in the Living Room of the Union...