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