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...afternoon voyage down the Potomac aboard the Mayflower, Calvin Coolidge went past M. Vernon and back. His guests : news correspondents and photographers, Collie Rob Roy. Pencils and cameras were not allowed. Luncheon was served on deck...
...made him suffer the ribaldries of his friends who have "made sport of him, expressing feigned surprise that he sold his name, picture and reputation in connection with such a low-priced* cigar as those advertised." Other cigars named for famed persons : 15 cents or less: Peter Schuyler, Rob ert Burns, (Daniel) Webster,f (Vitus) Bering (discoverer of the Straits), ‡ William Penn, Raphael, Duke of Savoy, Flor de Spencer, Hanan Bros. (Shoe People), Tom Wilson, Lady Churchill, Captain Marryat. More than 15 cents: Henry Clay, Manuel Garcia. Cigars named after fictional persons: Monte Cristo, Robin Hood...
...burglar comes to rob...
...will be moderately amused by this fable of the neglected son. After 20 years of loneliness, he suddenly determines to plunge himself in the bubbling springs of champagne that make Montmartre such a fertile hill of pleasure. His father, far off in Wall Street, is warned and appears to rob him of the French cocotte who might have married him. Buster Collier plays this young man congenially. Rather less effective was Jacqueline Logan as the French girl surrounded by Parisian night life that obviously existed only in the excited brain of some Hollywood director...
...Coolidge cat, scratched by an embattled squirrel on the White House lawn, was a patient at the Walter Reed Hospital. Rob Roy, Mrs. Coolidge's white collie, was sent to the same hospital for skin treatment...