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...reads a card in the possession of Hope Hampton, cinema actress, and well she earned...
This elegantly costumed gentleman who was the cynosure of all eyes on the Paris had affronted Miss Hampton. For it was indeed true that he had been photographed aboard ship with Gilda Gray (Mrs. Gaillard T. Boag) but no camera had included in one glimpse him with Hope Hampton. As the ship proceeded up the harbor, the well-dressed gentleman was photographed alone, with his soft green felt hat on his head, and with the little green hat removed, and with Myron T. Herrick, and with Emile Daeschner, and with Under Secretary of the Treasury Winston...
Last week Thos. Cook & Son and other panders of rubberneckery rushed crowds of sightseers to a new gawking place. For the first time in 400 years the kitchens of Hampton Court Palace, whence came the viands of Cardinal Wolsey and florid Henry VIII, were thrown open to the public. Where the Master Cook, velvet-gowned, bechained with gold, had once held powers of all but life and death over his scullions, thronged many a one who thought himself as good as many another, and probably considerably better...
...technique that rivals the proverbial versatility of the cat-killing profession. There are now a score of ingenious ruses for extricating funds from fat pockets among alumni and benevolent friends-class insurance, class honor rolls, winning football teams, and (old but infallible) honorary degrees. Last week, headquarters of the Hampton-Tuskegee Endowment Fund uncovered a new trick, successfully worked upon Donor George Eastman, Rochester, N. Y., camera...
...Eastman had offered two of the five millions sought, on condition that the remaining three millions be found before 1926. The Hampton-Tuskegeeites countered with a proposal that the fifth million be allowed to take the form of "annuity gifts"-sums (over $5,000) which would be turned over to the fund as its property but upon which interest (5% to 8%) would be paid back to the donors during their lifetimes...