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Lately Artist Durenceau completed for Mrs. Whitney's East River apartment dining room a series of murals containing formalized heads & torsos of huge white Negroes against a pale green background. They cost $5,000. Mrs. Whitney was so well pleased with them that her husband also ordered the Durenceau Crucifixion with which to decorate their home. Its price was likely to approximate that for the mural price. Done in greys, greens and reds, the work took Artist Durenceau three months to finish. Those who viewed it excitedly last week could not make up their minds whether Sonny Whitney...
...Mackay, pretty young daughter of Clarence Hungerford Mackay, board chairman of Postal Telegraph & Cable Corp. and an ardent Catholic. Social New York made a great to-do when it discovered that Mr. Mackay's daughter was serious about the songwriter who made no bones about his East Side background. Irving Berlin went quietly about his business, wrote "Always," the song which coincided with their engagement. If it were true that lately he helped his father-in-law to the tune of $1,000,000 Irving Berlin would be the last to admit it. But the two are reconciled. When...
...shades of Ella Roole faded rapidly yesterday as attractive Mrs. Blsir Moody of Detroit, lightened the quiet background of the CRIMSON office with her youthful appearance. This was no Carrie Nation who came to speak on the evils of liquor; the girl in the brown and tan sports suit had charm, a new avenue of approach, which the recently formed Allied Youth Movement or, as one of her aides described it. Temperance Gone High Hat is using against liquor...
Twelve months ago S. S. Leviathan, only giant express liner flying the U. S. flag, was laid up at a Hoboken, N. J. pier as too unprofitable to operate. While her historic hulk grew dingier against a dingy background, U. S. Lines which bought her from the Shipping Board in 1929 tried to persuade the Government to take her back. Their arguments: 1) There were already more big ships on the North Atlantic run than the traffic warranted; 2) the Leviathan had been losing an average of $75,000 on each round trip before she was decommissioned; 3) this operating...
...second half of the book takes the reader into the past. Nicole beautiful 16 year old daughter of an American "robber baron" is brought to Europe suffering from schizophrenia, or split personality, resulting from an Flekiva background if is at a Swiss sanivarnon that she meets Dr.Richard Diver, eventually to marry him. The marriage takes place in face of the warning from the other doctors in the sanitarium that it is impossible to be both husband and psychiatrist and do them both well...