Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...manners. He is full of funny stories, at which he cackles broadly himself. Behind the affable exterior is a sharp business-like personality that achieves difficult objectives. What he knows or thinks about the War Department it is impossible to say, but until last week he probably knew and thought very little about...
...Majesty remained in his personal suite at the Palacio Real in Madrid, and would not allow any member of the Royal Family to leave the palace. Since he has emerged from these days of meditation and prayer, Alfonso de Bourbon has seemed listless and melancholic. Last week it was thought that General Don Miguel Primo de Rivera has found this royal mood a favorable one in which to induce the King to sign several more decrees strengthening the Rivera grip of iron on Spain...
Vivacious and increasingly competent as an actress, Lupe Velez was born in San Luis Potosi, seven days by donkey from Mexico City. When she was twelve she danced at a church festival. A booking agent, impressed, hired her as ballerina for a theatrical troupe. Her family thought a convent would be better for her. After two years in Our Lady of the Lake, at San Antonio, Tex., she went back to Mexico to dance. She was in Monterey with a musical comedy called Rataplan when someone from Hollywood saw her and took her north. She worked for a month...
Last week, a group of stragglers arrived late for a Toscanini concert in Carnegie Hall, Manhattan. They clattered down the aisle, banged down their seats, threw back their coats. They may have thought themselves unnoticed but the little man on the conductor's dais had been disturbed. He wheeled on them, crossed his arms in a Napoleonic attitude, stared them up and down and said, quite distinctly, "You are late!" Philadelphia audiences have been frequently rebuked by Conductor Leopold Stokowski; Manhattan, never before...
Helma's was then, as always, an artistry of the theatre. She was torn by Ravet's death. She thought she needed Raymond again and went to Biarritz to find him. But he had married without telling her, grown heavy, gone into business and was fathering a family. She fled to Buenos Aires and on board ship she married de Laurac who, she discovered later, preferred to her a slovenish bourgeoise who bore him children...