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...stage. Its best shots are the few that are definitely part of her history?the scenes at Castle Garden, and P. T. Barnum showing Miss Lind U. S. ballyhoo. Its main fault is that it sketches an amorous interlude in the life of a singer who was a notorious prig. Grace Moore, onetime musicomedy star, Metropolitan soprano, sings nicely and acts adequately...
...Prig's Progress...
Author Fineman's sympathy, strangely but unmistakably, is with his hero Roger, whom an alienist would call an invert, the plain man a prig...
...unusual to see in action on station platforms or in railroad cars when her copy is nearly due. Mornings at home, her telephones (and her husband's) are disconnected until the day's stint is done. Said she once to an interviewer: "Please don't make me out a prig. I wish you'd think of me as a strong, silent character, but I'm afraid...
Said Mrs. McCormick in an interview published in Ladies Home Journal last March: "I thought she [Alice] was a harum scarum. She thought I was a prig. She had burst upon the world as Princess Alice. I was a hardworking young woman in my father's office at the Senate. . . .-ED. Not Charles...