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...were surprised but immediately set about to make short work of the Yankees. Before the young men went to the army there was to be a double wedding: Miltiades Vaiden and Drusilla Lacefield, A. Gray Lacefield and Marcia Vaiden. But the night before the wedding Drusilla eloped with Major Crowninshield, and Marcia was not sorry her wedding was postponed, because she too was really in love with the Major. Miltiades went grimly off to war and took orders from the man who had stolen his bride, until Crowninshield was killed at the Battle of Shiloh. Polycarp and Augustus Vaiden were...
...poorly attended, poorly criticized. It contributed more than a little to the melancholia which made life unbearable for Pascin himself. Last week was another Pascin exhibition at Manhattan's Downtown Gallery. Socialites, reporters, art critics flocked to it. Standing sponsors were such people as smartchart Editor Frank Crowninshield, Art Critic Henry McBride, Mrs. John Davison Rockefeller Jr., Mr. & Mrs. Samuel Adolph Lewisohn. An elaborate illustrated catalog was prepared. The show was a decided success. Apart from the fact that the first Pascin exhibition contained some of his worst pictures, the second most of his best, between the two shows...
...been said that any well brought up young lady who understands pascin's pictures ought to be ashamed of herself. Wrote elegant Frank Crowninshield, dean of foreword writers, last week...
...needed was an American Institute for Persian Art & Archeology, to do learned digging in Per sia, provide scholarships, publish mono graphs. In a few weeks he had dazzled such tycoons and pundits as Mortimer Leo Schiff, Professor Arthur Kingsley, Dr. William R. Valentiner, Percy R. Pyne Jr., Frank Crowninshield, George Dwight Pratt, into accepting posts on the board of directors. Then he left for London with the Institute half organized...
...rare as fragments of the True Cross, Dealer Cloran believed. He in turn interested Clinton I. Nash, Boston dealer, who bought the service for the price of $51,226 or about $232 the dish. Just to be sure, Mr. Nash forwarded some of his plates to Edward Crowninshield, bachelor brother of Bachelor Editor Frank Crowninshield of Vanity Fair. Edward Augustus Crowninshield, 60, was a famed amateur tennis player of the '90s, second president of the West Side (Forest Hills) Tennis Club. Among his good friends now is Tennis-Artist Helen Wills Moody. One of the first men to play...