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CONVERSATION WITH MAX: THE LAST CIVILIZED VOICE
profiles · March 19, 1960

PROFILE of Sir Max Beerbohm. Mr. Marcus visited Sir Max at Rapallo and had with him a sheaf of assorted, non-consecutive pages of a printing of Max's …

CONVERSATION WITH MAX: THE MENU
profiles · March 5, 1960

PROFILE of Sir Max Beerbohm. As a drama tritic he refused to be knocked over by Eleonora Duse, who acted in Italian, for the bizarre reason that he …

CONVERSATION WITH MAX: PARTITO MA NON ARRIVATO
profiles · February 27, 1960

PROFILE of Sir Max Beerbohm in which he recalls his association with Frank Harris, owner of the Saturday Review. Sir Max worked for Harris from 1898 until …

CONVERSATION WITH MAX: ON THE TERRACE!
profiles · February 20, 1960

PROFILE OF Sir Max Beerbohm tells about Queen Victoria's book "More Leaves from the Journal of a Life in the High-lands," dedicated to John Brown. Sir …

CONVERSATION WITH MAX: THE MIRROR
profiles · February 13, 1960

PROFILE of Sir Henry Maximilian Beerbohm. Visit to his home in Rapallo. Sir Max talked about Virginia Woolf's diary; about the things about her that he…

CONVERSATION WITH MAX: COMPARE ME
profiles · February 6, 1960

PROFILE of Sir Henry Maximilian Beerbohm speaks of an incomplete masterpiece in Sir Max's possession, an unfinished portrait of Goethe by a painter …

The History Of The Russian Revolution
fiction · November 24, 1956

Mr. Weintraub was very lonely one spring evening in 1940. His wife had died a year or so before, and his son, Willard, was drifting away from him because …

The Days of Duveen: The Silent Men
profiles · November 3, 1951

Part 6 of S. N. Behrman’s Profile of the legendary art dealer Joseph Duveen, whose clients included J. P. Morgan, Henry Clay Frick, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and others.

THE BLUE BOY AND TWO LAVINIAS
profiles · October 27, 1951

PROFILE of Lord Joseph Duveen, the art dealer. One of his clients was Arabella Duval Yarrington, who first married Collis Huntington, and after his death …

THE DAYS OF DUVEEN: IV.-B. B.
profiles · October 20, 1951

Fourth part of Lord Joseph Duveen PROFILE deals with the life & work of Bernard Berenson, Duveen's adviser on Italian Old Masters. Mr. B., a graduate …

The Days of Duveen: A Brisk Market in Immortality
profiles · October 13, 1951

Profile of Lord Joseph Duveen. Since Duveen's death, one of the sunniest of the commentators on him and his era has been Mrs. William Randolph Hearst. …

THE DAYS OF DUVEEN: A BEGINNING IN DELFT
profiles · October 6, 1951

PROFILE OF Lord Duvene, art dealer. Joseph's uncle Henry, had opened a shop in Maiden Lane. One day, Benjamin Altman, the department-store magnate …

The Days of Duveen
profiles · September 29, 1951

S. N. Behrman’s 1951 Profile of the legendary art dealer Joseph Duveen, whose clients included J. P. Morgan, Henry Clay Frick, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and others.

The Red Wig.
profiles · June 1, 1946

Eleanor Perenyi, in her book about Hungary, "More Was Lost," tells how shocked her noble husband was when, newly arrived from America some ten years ago, …

AH, BUDAPEST!
profiles · May 25, 1946

PROFILE of Molnar, the playwright, tells about his nocturnal existence. Once it was interrupted; he was summoned to be a witness at a trial. It was born …

THE SUSPENDED DRAWING ROOM.
a reporter at large · January 27, 1945

REPORTER AT LARGE about England. Speaks of the nonchalance with which the English take air-raids. Alfred Lunt was standing in the wings one night ready to …

Old Monotonous--I
profiles · June 1, 1940
Do or Diaphragm
profiles · May 25, 1935

Profile of Frances Robinson Duff. The foremost dramatic coach in America, stresses the importance of diapragm control. Among Miss Duff's pupils are the…

Profile Mr. Jaeckel and a Few Hides
profiles · April 9, 1932

Profile of Richard Jaeckel, the furrier and some facts about the fur business in New York for the past quarter of a century. Like John Jacob Astor, Richard…

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