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...Paris. "Tu Sera Duchesse", starring Fernand Gravey, pictures the adventures of several young people in search of matrimony, who go through an amusing succession of mistaken identity scenes, leading from one incident to another. The other movie is a musical comedy entitled "Il Est Charmant", with Meg LeMonnier and Henri Gerat in the leading roles...
...Mahatma Eilshemius is by no means a charlatan. He has been called the American Rousseau. His childish, sentimental painting has been described as "the type of thing . . . which would result were the rank and file of Americans capable of expressing themselves on canvas." He has been praised by Henri Matisse and dozens of others. His most important pictures have been bought by the three most astute collections of modern U. S. paintings: Whitney Museum, Phillips Memorial Gallery (Washington), Mr. & Mrs. Chester Dale...
...spoil the boy or make his approach to music commonplace. When he was playing the Brahms Concerto in Minneapolis, he forgot a part of the slow movement. He made no effort to cover his-lapse as most violinists would have done. With perfect poise he stepped up to Conductor Henri Verbrugghen, asked him to start the movement over again...
...Japanese naval attache at Washington. He was a member of the Japanese delegation to the Washington Arms Conference, and he brought a Japanese squadron to New York in 1929. His arrival at Shanghai was quite a social occasion. U. S. Vice Admiral Taylor's aide, Lieut. Henri H. Smith-Hutton, paid a call. Admiral Nomura stepped into his barge and returned it. British Vice Admiral Kelly popped over for a chat. The Press was invited and Admiral Nomura made a little speech. Chapei's cannon rattled the teacups...
...left Canada, went to work as a cattle rancher for Butte Valley Land Co. in San Francisco which was partly owned by his. uncle James Horsburg Jr., then assistant general passenger agent of the Union Pacific. Several years later when the U. P. was anxious to please Sir Henri W. A. Deterding and a group of Royal Dutch officials, his uncle selected Herbert Gallagher to show them around. This he did so well that when Royal Dutch decided to open a California agency under J. C. Van Eck (who then spoke little English) he was made the Dutchman...