Again, Mona

The room was tranquil. Mona Lisa, she of the moot smile, gazed placidly from the wall. Then, in a trice, a shadow fell and the picture was whisked out of the building.

This happened in 1911, when Leonardo's Mona Lisa was stolen from the Salon Carre of the Louvre.

And, so irresistible is the Mona Lisa, it happened again last week, when an unframed Mona Lisa by Mrs. Elizabeth Tinker Elmore, New York copyist, was stolen from the fourth floor parlors of the public library in Birmingham, Ala.