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...second seduction, by Charles Fox, was a helpless lady's surrender to the slyest of flattery; he wooed her "parts," her "unsuspected powers." ... So writes generous E. Barrington-L. Adams Beck, the double-barreled lady who has lately risen to fame as an expositor of Oriental mysticism (Splendour of Asia, The Ninth Vibration, etc.) and simultaneously as biographer of the Duchess of Fenton (The Chaste Diana), Lady Hamilton (The Divine Lady) and Poet Byron (Glorious Apollo). Her periods billow out like fussy, over-embroidered crinolines when she is in her role of sentimental raconteuse, but the historical reconstructions...
...gates of the great Senior County Fair swing open this evening at 9 o'clock, a scene of unparalleled splendour will burst upon the atrophied optics of the throng of ticket-holders. Sparkling fountains will leap from many a keg, and the air will quiver with the stentorian howls of sideshow barkers...
Professor F. C. de Sumichrast last night gave the last of his four illustrated public lectures on "Versailles," discussing as his special subject "The Passing of the Splendour." The lecturer most interestingly the important political events leading up to the death of Louis XV, the moral deterioration of the court during that reign, and the complications responsible for the growing aversion to the innocent and once popular Marie Antoinette. The comparatively simple court life enforced during the last days of Louis XIV, was followed, said Professor Sumichrast, by a natural reaction. During the period of social pomposity and court revelries...
Professor F. C. de Sumichrast will give the last of his four illustrated public lectures on "Versailles" this evening at 8 o'clock in the Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum. His subject will be "The Passing of the Splendour...
...LECTURE. "Versailles,--the Passing of the Splendour," Professor de Sumichrast. (Illustrated). Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum...