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...cigarette left on a sofa in the Fly Club. Holyoke Place, sprang into flame at 12.30 o'clock this morning and summoned three engine companies to the scene. A few minutes' work by the firemen extinguished the blaze with small damage. Smoke and water wrought some havoc with the interior...
...Shepherd of the Hills. Old-fashioned as a hair sofa is this movie carved from a Harold Bell Wright best seller. Dully, the story preaches the value of turning the other cheek, the ex-minister here involved turning his with the monotony of a metronome. An ex-minister reaches the sheep country, settles among the farmers and sheep owners, and tries by faith in the good to bring them through such troubles as drought and failing crops. Misery bumps the characters around, until the great rain. The humbleness of Alec B. Francis and the plumpness of Molly...
...portraits, all in all, were the most interesting pictures. One Feodor Zakharov's which took the $300 Lippincott award, foolishly titled Reverie, showed a woman in a black dress leaning against the back of a sofa; in her right hand was a book she had been reading five minutes before. Since then, the furiously traveling train of her consciousness had rolled down a steep, delicious scenic railway of thoughts and remembrances. Now this train was coasting slowly toward a standstill; the lady's eyes were closed with enigmatic pleasure; her smile would surely have annoyed a clever husband...
...fourth day's display that they furnished almost $500,000 for the remaining pieces in the Salomon Collection; in the first three days they had paid altogether a little less than $200,000. Mrs. Elisha Walker, Manhattan social bigwig, successfully proffered $44,000 for six tapestried chairs and a sofa that had been made, a long time ago, for Queen Marie Antoinette of France. A little Watteau, which showed a pale libidinous god making love to a plump nymph, went to a dealer for $12,500. A portrait by Fragonard of the Chevalier de Billaut, "in gay attire, seated...
...year was less than five minutes old as the Vagabond, or someone, at least who might well have been mistaken for him, was reclining in a comfortable sofa at a country club. Next to him sat a beautiful creature of, shall we say, the gentler sex. Perhaps the opposite sex would more accurately convey our meaning, for the Vagabond is essentially a virile specimen...