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...definite nationality just as he has no permanent working-place. By race and by profession Moissi is an actor, a person whose fixation it is to have no fixations. He dislikes contracts and travels around Europe playing guest engagements at capital cities. He wears loose ties and velvet jackets, keeps pets, plays all his roles with a facile and sonorous emotionalism which does not seem to have its source in the ideas of his authors. He has played Shaw, Hauptmann, Chekhov, Pirandello, Shakespeare Euripides. When he played Redemption in Manhattan (TIME, Nov. 26, 1928) Commentator Alexander Woollcott called his voice...
...swallowtail coats noted in Their Majesties' party the fascinating brown beard of Italian Foreign Minister Dino Grandi, "The Right Hand of II Duce," and the brigand-like black mustache of Cesare Maria di Vecchi, Count di Val Cismon. Italian Ambassador to the Holy See. Swiss drummers in velvet hats thumped yellow-painted drums. Swiss bandsmen blared the Italian royal anthem (the first time that such music had echoed from the Vatican's sacred walls), and followed it with the Papal hymn Inno Pontificio...
...Savoy (TIME, Nov. 25). Hence the compromise, the one-kneed genuflection. His Holiness did not leave Their Majesties kneeling long. Quickly he motioned them to their feet, led them to two armchairs placed on a level with and on either side of his "Little Throne,"* which was under a velvet canopy...
...before the break one could note rich rugs, fur coats, and electric pianos. They were prosperous enough to afford luxuries. Indeed, in one Princeton home I saw a book, and when any man from old Nassau goes in for literature you may be sure that he is treading on velvet and that he doesn't care how he squanders his money. And in those days there was no need for thrift among the Tigers. Princeton Football First Preferred never failed to yield a dividend to those who backed...
...sooner or later made to pay. Thus, though Architects Graham, Anderson, Probst & White had orders to stint nothing in making Chicago's opera house second to none for luxury, they also had orders to surmount the edifice with a 21-story office building. In the auditorium are rose-velvet boxes, rose-brocade chairs, a gold and ivory proscenium arch, lush carpeting, amber lights, spacious cloak rooms, a rose-and-gold foyer with towering columns of Roman travertine. Around and over the auditorium are 739,000 square feet of office space, the entire income from which will...