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...COMET?A Weekly Trail Blazer of American Thought...
...POET ASSASSINATED-Guillaume Apollinaire (Translated from the French by Matthew Josephson)- Broom ($5.00). Wilhelm de Kostrovitsky (Guillaume Apollinaire), was a Frenchman famous for his eccentricities. He was a familiar figure in the Latin Quarter, leading about in his trail a gang of writers and freaks, artists and idiots. Idol of the professional modernists in literature, he was the friend of such distinguished artists as Matisse and Picasso. The Poet Assassinated is a work containing practically all of its author's unlimited peculiarities. It is remotely autobiographical, the history of a poet, whose birth is described with a somewhat appalling...
...Bascom Slemp, Secretary to President Coolidge: "It became known that John Fox, novelist and one-time husband of Fritzi Scheff, was a boyhood friend of mine in Virginia, that we often went fishing, that I am said to be the original of a character in The Trail of the Lonesome Pine...
Last week Demotte fils sailed for France leaving behind a trail of contradicting rumors. Apparently the youthful Demotte had been dethroned from his place at the head of his firm. Mitchell Kennerley, head of the Anderson Galleries, said simply that Mrs. Demotte had called her son to her and that he might never return. Meanwhile the administrator of the Demotte Estate has the authority and the responsibility of managing the great art business...
Alice Roosevelt Longworth. "Alice was one of the pioneers in smoking and left a trail of ashes and smoldering disgust through conservative circles. . . . She came and went like a merry flash and skated skillfully over very thin ice. . . . Any day you may see Alice Longworth come into the Senate. . . . Her hat, no matter how becoming, is flung instantly aside. . . . She hasn't much hair, but it is pretty and there is scarcely a gray streak in it. ... Not long after her marriage, I think it was, she was giving a big luncheon party. In the middle of it, someone...