Word: reid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Robert Reid, 67, the artist who painted the murals in the Library of Congress, Massachusetts State House in Boston, San Francisco Palace of Fine Arts; at a sanitarium in Clifton Springs, N. Y., whither he had gone after his right arm became paralyzed (1927); of a broken hip and pneumonia. Having taught himself to paint with his left hand, last spring he exhibited two pictures at the National Academy of Design (Manhattan...
Died. Pal, 14, famed cinema bullterrier, in Hollywood; of old age. For ten years he chased and threatened the trouser-seats of Harold Lloyd, Larry Semon et al., scampered with Hal Roach's Rascals, paralyzed Negro extras, once performed with the late Wallace Reid...
Last year J. L. Reid '29, then captain of the squad, was winner in actual time elapsed, breaking his own record for the course by covering the distance in 27 minutes, 28 and 4-5 seconds. In handicap placing, however, he was eighth, while the race was won by Sturtevant Burr '31, now a regular member of the cross country team, who had a handicap of 4 minutes, 20 seconds. His name was the first to be inscribed upon the trophy...
...Patchwork Madonna", Mr. Weston makes use of two central characters, a psycho-analyst and his patient, the London actress, Creda Reid. The chapters consist of the progressive consultations in the treatment of her case. And since the actress is indeed a pretty well tattered madonna, a certain amount of interest is attached to her explanations of the origins of her hates and loves. She is described as tall, supple, and of "almost tigerish strength." When we add that she speaks in a husky voice and uses tangerine perfume, any reader familiar with One-a-minute-Oppenheim can visualize the type...
...ending of the book has some dramatic power. Creda Reid is suddenly freed from one of her major complexes, hatred of her mother, by the unexpected murder of that unpleasant old lady. The nerve doctor assures her that all will be well after this, if she will only learn to confine her vagrant affections to one man instead of to the Fifth Regiment of Horse Marines, or their equivalent in citizens of the realm. Creda consents, but we suspect that she had a cunning twinkle in her eye when she hurried from the consultation room...