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...President and Mrs. Coolidge were guests of Dr. Hubert Work, Secretary of the Interior, at dinner at the Willard Hotel. Dr. Work is a widower and his daughter, Mrs. A. W. Bissell, acted as hostess. His son-in-law, his two sons and two daughters-in-law were also present, also Justices Van Devanter and Stone of the Supreme Court, Senators Warren, Phipps, Ernst, Means, Goff, Congressmen Madden, Tilson, Taylor, Hardy, Governor Parks of Alaska, Will H. Hays, Frank W. Steamsmany of them with their ladies? and enough others to make it the largest dinner given to the President this...
Malvy. Hotheads leaped up and bellowed that the new Minister of Interior, Louis Jean Malvy, was friendly to the notorious Germany spy, Mata Hari, during the War, that he had traitorously sold information to the Germans, fomented mutinies and was even chiefly responsible for the Allied setback at the Chemin des Dames. They demanded to know why M. Briand had included such a man in his Cabinet.* In vain the Government, supporters yelled hack that most of these charges were lies in the first place and that anyhow M. Malvy had expiated whatever guilt was his by submitting...
...collected the material for his present work said, "My work deals principally with the physical geography; I am occupied not so much in collecting geological specimens as in seeing the ground and describing the topographical features of the regions covered. So far I have made two trips across the interior of South America, and on these I have obtained much valuable material...
...pleasure primarily, but also to supply the American Museum of National History with habitat groups of African fauna and to make a cinematic volume on natural history, George (Kodaks) Eastman of Rochester, N. Y., sailed last week from Manhattan for Mombasa and the African interior, accompanied by technicians of the Museum, armed with a battery of his cinema cameras in several sizes. He expected to be joined in France by that indefatigable pair of sportsman-explorers, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Ethan Akeley.* At quarrying with a camera, Mr. Eastman is no novice. For years his humane-hunting grounds have been...
Married. Miss Elsie de Wolfe, 61, famed interior decorator, member of the onetime "bachelor girls' triumvirate" (the others being Miss Anne Morgan, 53, daughter of the late J. P. Morgan; and famed authors' agent; Miss Elisabeth Marbury, 70), recipient of the Cross of the Legion of Honor and of the French War Cross; to Sir Charles Mendl, 54, Paris Representative of Foreign Office News Department; at Paris, in the British Consulate...