Word: portraits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which have common rooms, and with this in view, a large room, situated in the middle of Straus and having an outside entrance detached form the steps that lead to its suites, has been built. In this room, which is to be the memorial proper, will be hung a portrait of Mr. and Mrs. Straus...
...commented a recent critic, and doubtless the scribe's Midas-fingers do convert much tinsel into gold. Yet, occasionally, there is no need for alchemy. James Amps, for many years closely associated with Theodore Roosevelt as butler, valet, "head-man," recently in Collier's sketched an intimate portrait of the Colonel's last days. The President had been a jovial man. He would tell a story of how he had loaned $200 to a "Rough Rider" friend to pay a lawyer for his defense after killing someone. Shortly afterwards, back came the $200 with a note: "Dear...
...rostrum, watching some gentlemen talk with their fingers. They talked in an ancient language, for they were dealer's agents, and their nodding heads, their twitching forefingers, indicated bids of a thousand, of ten thousand pounds. When a little picture on the scaffold (George Romney's portrait of Mrs. Davenport, seated, 30 by 25 inches) was knocked down to Sir Joseph Duveen's man for approximately $260,000, the elegant watchers burst into applause. Romney's Lady Hamilton brought $65,000. And Sir Joshua Reynold's Cimon and Iphigenia brought $60. And Van Dyke...
These are the plays which, in the light of metropolitan criticism, seem most important. SERIOUS THE GREAT GOD BROWN-Eugene O'Neill's powerful if sometimes confusing report of how one man bought another's brains. CRAIG'S WIPE-A portrait of that woman down the street whose house is so scrupulously clean that you are chilled to enter it. LULU BELLE-Lenore Ulric as a black rowdy who sails away to Paris with a French vicomte. LESS SERIOUS CRADLE SNATCHERS-Ribald doings on Long Island when three mad young men and three bad elderly ladies...
LULU BELLE-Lenore Ulric in a rowdy portrait of immoralities among New York's negro night life...