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...stories. His play, Costa's Daughter, will soon be unveiled to the glances of Broadway. Bercovici is a Rumanian, born there in 1882. He came to this country in 1916, but no amount of American sunlight and air, fortunately, can erase the swarthy hue of his person or the sleek ebon of hair and mustache...
...semi-finals found Tilden facing Vincent Richards, his onetime protege and doubles partner, now Olympic champion. Tilden had brushed aside all opposition, losing two sets only in four matches, one to Alonso, sleek Spaniard, one to Howard Kinsey, ubiquitous Californian and national doubles champion. "Little Bill" Johnston was in the other bracket, up against Gerald Patterson, smashing Australian...
Caracoling geldings in front of Fifth Avenue's sprucest barouche- distempered horseless carriages- sleek limousines-yachts, a succession of them, haughty and lithe, with these the Vanderbilts, in their generations, have spurned space. To this list of conveyances an addition was made last week-the fastest seaplane in the world. Harold Sterling, son of William K., had it built by Charles Kirkham, once of the Curtiss Company...
Drawings were made for the men's National singles tennis championship at Forest Hills, L. I., and out popped the names of Champion Tilden and Manuel Alonso, sleek Spaniard, for the opening round. Alonso has been known to beat Tilden. Also in Tilden's quarter of the draw were Norman E. Brookes, ancient Australian, Pat O'Hara Wood, and Howard Kinsey, the deadlier of the two Kinsey brothers. Any one of these might conceivably upset the elongated Philadelphian...
...frame. Corporeal flesh the producers could and did obtain, in the not unconvincing shape of fat Willard Louis, hitherto unknown. But of spiritual tegument the scenario had none. For obvious reasons, Tanis Judique, middle aged and harmless in the novel, was sent to the boudoir and brought out a sleek, home-wrecking creature (Carmel Myers). Mary Alden, the Babbitt wife, has played frumpy parts until they are second nature...