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...good taste. While continuing my inventory, I happened to come across pictures of the woman whom I admire most in the whole world, both in the theatre and on the screen. Imagine my surprise. I am sincerely sorry to have disarranged the charming interior and make every apology and abandon everything I coveted to take along. My companion cannot understand what he terms "sentimental nonsense." I will indemnify him. But allow me, madam, to take your pictures. Your radiant beauty, which seems to me also to speak of great goodness of heart, will excuse this petty larceny. Some...
...outcry also reached the President from the American Institute of Architects. Recently Congress authorized the redecoration of the Interior of the White House. It was understood that this decoration was to be done in colonial style?thereby ousting the French Empire furnishings which were installed during President Roosevelt's regime at a cost of $500,000, under the direction of Charles F. McKim of the famed firm of McKim, Mead & White. The proponents of the change to colonial said that it would be more appropriate and that the small beginning so far made would not destroy Mr. McKim's work...
There was only one point on which he refused to talk-his alleged loan of $100,000 to onetime (1921-23) Secretary of the Interior Fall. His lawyers insisted that he not touch on that since he will soon be placed on trial for conspiracy to defraud the Government; and that his story of that loan, as told to the Senate Investigating Committee, will not be admissible as evidence, although another statement of the same facts to a third party would...
...British Embassy building on Connecticut Avenue, Washington, is to be sold. Sir Esme Howard, who recently made the announcement, said: "When I walk through these rooms the building seems to reproach me." And well it might; for however dingy it looks from the outside, the interior is indeed beautiful and imposing. A liveried footman opens the door and in front is a heavy blue carpeted hall or reception room with a massive staircase to the rear, down which Queen Victoria, seated, gazes from the enormous dimensions of a gilt frame. To the left are two drawing rooms and the ballroom...
...Interior. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (L) Baron Rolin Jacquemyns...