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...Paris or Bust. The Hilers will probably get along. They have been doing so for some time. If they cannot speak with any great eloquence for themselves, their work speaks for them with widening effect. Large, gregarious Hilaire was born 44 years ago in St. Paul. He went to the University of Pennsylvania, majored in finance at the insistence of Papa (longtime notions seller and theatrical agent), flunked out after two years. Informed by two Philadelphia art schools that he could never learn to draw, he taught himself the piano and the saxophone, thought he would support himself...
...with the claim of having taught Italy's Queen Margherita how to play the mandolin. In 1915 he took his first plunge: a production of Pagliacci at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in which he sang the part of Canio himself. As a tenor, he was a spectacular bust. But he took in $7,000 at the box office...
...bills when they moved to New jersey last month. (They move to Texas next.) The grocer wants $62, the craters $113, the shoe merchant $10, and the ex-chauffeur $90. If a sheriff's sale is authorized, local natives will have a chance to pick up a bronze bust of the original Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt and the Vanderbilt family's elegant coat of arms...
After a series of brief sittings that totaled only 15 hours Jo Davidson finished a bust of 81-year-old Senator George W. Morris. To a word of praise the photogenic sculptor responded: "It takes two to make a bust." To a query, later, on who was paying for the sculpture and where it would stand, sculpable Statesman Norris exclaimed: "I never thought of asking Davidson...
Diligently elegant Columnist Lucius Beebe and his swirly cape stayed away, 70-year-old Lady Decies turned up without her tiara. Sartorially the opening of the Metropolitan Opera season last week was pretty much of a bust (see p. 74); but generally the bluebloods had done what they could in the face of war-like fiction's Englishmen dressing for dinner in the jungle. Among the attendant owners of rare baubles, rare pelts, rare beauty or simply rare old blood (see cuts): Mrs. Byron Foy (sapphires and diamonds); Mrs. Walter Moving (ermine); Emily Roosevelt (fifth cousin of the President...