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...young pre-Raphaelite Painters Rossetti, Millais and Holman Hunt all came to pose, or admire, or talk shop with the artist, and to take tea in the cozy atmosphere provided by his "spiritual wives" (other men's wives who mothered him). His famed Hope, Fata Morgana, and Una and the Red Cross Knight, were elegant, Raphael-like and beautiful enough to stick in the public's mind. The boy who went to work as a sculptor's apprentice when he was ten was given degrees at Oxford and Cambridge, and grandly declined a baronetcy...
When he was ready, John Amery shook hands with a young woman believed to be Una Wing, his actress wife, and with his brother Julian, a captain in a parachute regiment. Later the prison chaplain came into the cell, but Amery had nothing to say to him. He walked alone to the execution chamber, where Hangman Pierrepont was waiting. With a firm step John Amery climbed the gallows...
...beautiful? ¿Es bella? No, es fea. No, she is ugly. Con una mujer hermosa en la oficina es dificil hacer trabajo. With a beautiful woman in the office, it is hard to do work...
This brisk bit of skulduggery permits antisocial Painter Farll to assume his valet's name and begin a new life as a starving artist. The arrangement works well until 1) the valet's wife (Una O'Connor) and family turn up and denounce the fraud; 2) an art dealer is accused of selling forged Farlls...
Hazel Scott was slated, but fortunately couldn't make it. Any substitute would be an improvement, and Una Mac Carlisle is a very great one. She's a protege of Fats Waller, contributing mightily to his classic record of "I Can't Give You Anything But Love." Una is no world-better as a pianist, but she is a fine singer...