Word: velvets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Iron Man & Velvet Glove (See Front Cover...
...France he met and married Mlle. Andree Lardoux, niece of the Marquis de Chambre of Brittany. She brought her husband a natural dowry of dark hair and eyes, Gallic chic. Her property dowry included a painting of a gentle faced brunette whose bosom plumply filled her brick-red velvet bodice. The painting was on two layers of canvas, bore on the back the inscription: "Taken from the wood and put on canvas by Hacquin at Paris, 1777."* It had been acquired by the Lardoux family from an aide of Napoleon Bonaparte. Mile. Lardoux owned it with joy, because...
...John J. Raskob snatched it from their greedy fingers. Eleven o'clock at Belle Isle was the hour. Smith skipped his breakfast to make it on time. With care he picked his Mtire?silk-faced cutaway, striped trousers, silk-topped patent leather button shoes, semi-formal overcoat with velvet collar. One hand picked up a cane; the other put a cigar in a mouth corner. The Brown Derby, above all, was set at an undefeated angle. Away streaked the baby-blue Rolls-Royce, minus any hooting police-escort. Cushioned snugly at Mr. Smith's 'elbows were Mr. Raskob and William...
...fond of plover eggs. He drank champagne from the slipper of Actress Pauline Markham, who had a "voice of velvet and the lost arms of Venus of Milo." He tried to drive a coach-and-four through the doorway of a Paris house, putting himself in the hospital for a month. Several times, in dead of night, he raced along the boulevards?stark naked in the driver...
...Caprice is the comedy of an artist, not a farceur, though it contains moments of mediocre farce. The author is a Viennese, Geza Sil-Vara, and it is his first play (adapted by Director Moeller) to be presented in the U. S. Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne stroke the velvet and stir the smooth cream of Caprice, Lynn Fontanne wearing wigs, dresses by Jeanne Lanvin, hats with small, Mercurial wings attached to them...