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...Scott Fitzgerald was not the only American to part with "so many hours and so much money" in Bricktop's. From 1924 to 1939, until war drove her home to the U.S. for a while, Bricktop (real name: Ada Smith du Congé), a West Virginia-born Negro woman with a mop of rusty orange hair, played hostess to a whole generation of footloose Americans in her Montmartre nightclub...
...most popular paintings in the Metropolitan Museum is a portrait of a pretty art student, Mlle. Charlotte du Val d'Ognes. Scholars have always assumed that Jacques Louis David painted it and surpassed himself in doing so; last week the scholars were proved wrong...
...they had not all come to hear and weigh carefully the extreme views Mr. Robeson would doubtless have expressed. But they were there none the less, and the Young Progressives must be chided gently for failing to produce their man. Since they had similar ill-luck with William E. Du Bois on Monday night, even their own followers must be getting disappointed. We say, give us your dissenter to listen to or to heckle, but leave us not to sit staring at a vacant blackboard for two hours...
...Besides Du Bois, four other officers of the "Peace Information Center," principal advocate of the Stockholm Appeal, were indicted. Secretary of State Dean Acheson branded the petition as "a propaganda trick...
...Du Bois leaves Boston today after a short stay. He declined to speak "because of a previous engagement." "As far as I know," Beveridge said, "his inability to appear had nothing to do with his indictment...