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...Howard Chandler Christy's new portrait of Mrs. Coolidge was shown at the White House. She is standing in the south grounds of the White House, with the fountain playing in the background. Around her shoulders blows a filmy white shawl. At her side is her snow white collie, Rob Roy, gazing up at her as she pats his head. To one who does no more than read the description, the picture seems like a Gainsborough...
...marvelous frock and went to call on his sister. Whether the strategem succeeded we are not told, but Mr. Betts, aided only by an old print, has done a most appealing portrait of the graceful maiden lady in her gown of heavy yellow silk, poke bonnet, black mitts, lace shawl...
...detective stories in which the murder occurs in a hermetically sealed room sans exits or entrances? innumerable books about small Middle Western towns?wondering why there should be so many books about small Middle Western towns?Babbitt?calling other people babbitts? being called a babbitt? The Bright Shawl with the only undersexed hero in recent fiction?goods books? books not even a reviewer would sell second-hand?the first half of The Judge?Lady into Fox?Through the Wheat?A Pocketful of Poses? Beasts, Men and Gods?letters by Franklin K. Lane?by Walter Hines Page?fat, interesting volumes...
...Bright Shawl. Another adaptation, this time from Hergesheimer's novel of conspiracy and abortive rebellion in the Cuba of 1850. Colorfully produced, with incidents of beauty, it yet misses genuine impressiveness -partly, perhaps, because Dorothy Gish, as the Spanish dancer, le Clavel, seems pitifully miscast. She does her very best with it, but the role simply does not fit her. Richard Barthelmess, as the adventurous young American dandy-hero, is better but not wholly successful. A word should be said in favor of Jetta Gondal who portrays a scintillating Chinese vamp and Anders Randolph as a sinister Spanish captain...
...dozen books to have read: Ann Severn and the Fieldings (Sinclair) Babbitt (Lewis); Black Oxen (Atherton); The Bright Shawl; (Hergesheimer); The Cathedral (Walpole); The Enchanted April (Elizabeth); Jurgen (Cabell); Last Poems (Housman); The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page (Hendrick); Many Marriages (Anderson); Some Distinguished Americans (O'Higgins); Where the Blue Begins (Morley...