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...could handle. Tycoons besieged his studio. One New York gallery offered him $5,000,000 to come to New York and do a series of 300 portraits. Billy Orps turned it down. He had all the portraits he could possibly do right in London at $10,000 apiece. Otto Hermann Kahn, Andrew William Mellon, William Wallace Atterbury are among the U. S. businessmen who traveled to London to be limned by the little Irishman. During the War, British authorities pinned the gold crowns of a major on his shoulders, clapped a tin helmet on his head and sent...
George F. Baker and William Ziegler Jr., are Founder Members. Associates include such men as J. Pierpont Morgan '89, Vincent Astor, Cornelius N. Bliss '97, Cyrus H. K. Curtis, George Eastman, Francis Lee Higginson '00, Otto H. Kahn, Andrew W. Mellon Hon. '26, John J. Raskob, Jesse Isidor Straus '93, and Owen D. Young Hon. '24. The entire membership now number about 200; the remaining 50 of the complete enrolment will be filled from time to time in the future
...than businesslike. He has studied early U. S. music, written the sole biography of Composer Stephen Collins Foster, com posed songs, organ pieces and operettas. Lately he has devoted all his time to organ-playing and managing the N. A. O. and the National Music League which, with Mrs. Otto Hermann Kahn as its president, helps young U. S. musicians get ahead. Last month he represented U. S. organists at the Anglo-American Music Conference at Lausanne, Switzerland...
There was another story. The day after Bethlen's resignation, 18-year-old Archduke Otto of Hungary disappeared from Steenockerzeel Castle in Belgium. All night long excited Hungarian reporters were routing royalists out of bed to learn if Otto was attempting to seize Hungary's vacant throne. They received nothing but spluttering denials. Eventually Otto and his mother, the ex-Empress Zita, were discovered in Switzerland...
...brother, in America, is Henry Bowditch van Loon and I am Willem Gerard van Loon. On the dancing stage I leave off the van Loon as I don't believe in family parties. As to the Iragic parental groan and the reference to the great and understanding liberty Otto Kahn granted his son. that is all a lot of h0013r. Is America still so puritanical that a dancer is held as something inferior to a painter, a sculptor or even an historian? I don't see the difference. An historian merely tells old stories in new words...