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...commissioned by architects to do 18 statues for a building on the Strand. He supplied 18 heroic nudes in all postures. The public screamed. Epstein remarked : "The Capital of the British Empire is so used to statues in frock coats and trousers that these struck them as brutal truth." He was commissioned to make a monument for Oscar Wilde's grave in Paris. He furnished a "symbolic figure." The Prefecture of Police and the cemetery authorities interfered- hung a large bronze fig leaf on the statue. A few nights later, when Epstein was sitting in the Cafe Royal...
From another part of London, politically opposite to the great Strand newspaper, came a girlish outburst of indignation from Labor's only woman M. P., Ellen Wilkinson. She said that the women of the Labor Party "felt pretty sick when they read nonsense like that talked by Ethel Snowden in America and added that she would like to apply to Mrs. Snowden the epithet "The woman who wants slapping...
Thereafter, still silk-hatted, the Americans were escorted down the Strand to the Inner Temple, where guarded doors swung open upon Gray's Inn, Lincoln's Inn and all that is sedate and venerable in the Law. Cases were in progress. Little knots of men grouped about the English hosts, listening to elucidations of unfamiliar procedure. Bewigged, begowned, Lord Chief Justice (the Rt. Hon. Sir Gordon Hewart) and Justice Darling ruled their benches in the Courts of Appeal, Justice Horridge his divorce court. In one ;room, there arose an intricate question involving U. S. law. Experts among...
...carriage doors flew open, a host of grinning Americans and Canadians flocked out. The fidgeters, English reception committee of the Associated Advertising Clubs of the World, sprang into action, shook hands, in every direction, loaded the grinners into a fleet of taxis, chugged off with them toward the Strand to the 20th Annual International Advertising Convention...
Booth Tarkington's--"Monsieur Beaucaire" has been revived in London and is now playing at the Strand Theatre with Gerald Lawrence in the title role. The play is especially well-received by old-timere with whom it has long been a favorite. Although this slight but exquisite story was published twenty-five years ago and has seen a complee revolution in literary styles, Mr. Tarkington's publishers, Doubleday, Page & Company, report that it continues to be one of the most popular of his books and seems to remain uninfluenced by time and literary fashions...