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Painting the Veil, Mr. Maugham Does Not Gild the Lily
Despite the prejudices of Harvard and Princeton men in charge, coeducation is established at Beirut. The lecturer showed the importance of this by the instance of the Moslem girl who removed her veil--for the first time in public--in chapel, and of the Jewish girl who sat at table with men of all faiths...
...newspaper report ignorantly inferred that Queen Mother Alexandra, wife of King Edward VII, had started a veil craze by allowing the publication of a photograph which shows her wearing a veil with her toque. Her Majesty has long worn a veil, as most good Victorians did, and has not infrequently been photographed in one. The new veils, continued the newspaper, are "of the harem variety, covering only the eyes." In point of fact, veils worn by harem ladies cover the face from the eyes downward...
...hair, lost for him the fickle favor of his people. And the accession of financial, and, therefore, of political strength, through the marriage of his daughter to the American millionaire Leeds, has been counterbalanced by the generous openhandedness of American Greeks, who look back to Attic aridity, through a veil of hazy recollection, a ward the cause of the Republic...
POINCARÉ - Sisley Huddleston - Little Brown ($2.50). Called a biographical portrait, this book attempts to solve the enigma which the French call Poincaré. The author is not particularly successful. He hardly pierces the veil of the unknown that hangs around the ex-Premier, but he makes many shrewd comments and gives some first-hand impressions of the man who has "les poings, poings, poings . . . les poings carres...