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Died. Captain Stephen Hulbert Avenel Haggard, 31, writer-actor son of Sir Godfrey Digby Napier Haggard, British Consul General in New York; grandnephew of Author H. Rider Haggard; in an undisclosed battle area. He appeared with Ethel Barrymore in 1938's Whiteoaks, same year attracted attention with his first novel...
...Avenel delivered the last Hyde lecture yesterday afternoon on "De quoi se composaient les fortunes des riches et des bourgeois d'autrefois." M. d'Avenel will leave Boston today for New Haven, where he will lecture at Yale. From there he will tour through the large cities of the East and finally through the West to San Francisco, returning East through Canada, and leaving for France about...
...Avenel said that land-wealth had greatly increased of late years, whereas formerly, when land was cheap, great tracts had been held by single individuals. Land rents in the Middle Ages were more indirect than direct, and were levied more on the people than on things produced on the land. A great element of recent fortunes is town and city property, whether built on or not, and this was almost unknown to the people of the Middle Ages. Land which has been built on in France, has increased in value from three to twelve million dollars in the last...
...fault. Idle money was increased, while money actively engaged in the building up of wealth was diminished. Today these conditions are reversed, the governmental employees receiving only fair salaries. Investments have become international and production has been stimulated, giving rise to large fortunes and greater wealth. M. d'Avenel thinks the best condition which can affect the world in the future is a still closer alliance, in financial and political lines, between the large countries of the world, than exists at present...
...CERCLE FRANCAIS LECTURES. VIII. "De quoi se composaient les fortunes des riches et des bourgeois d'autrefois." M. le vicomte Georges d'Avenel. Sanders Theatre, 4.30 P. M. Admission by ticket until five minutes before the beginning of the lecture; after that time open to the public...