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That night, while the four Majesties banqueted at Sinaia, Rumania's greatest diplomat, Foreign Minister Nicholas Titulescu, was seized in the Royal Chateau with acute inflammation of the middle ear. While he writhed in pain, the four Majesties were startled to discover that they had not a doctor among them. What...
Alva Vanderbilt soon found that one's social stature was measured by the success of the balls one gave. Very well. She would give a ball. Furthermore, she would build the most impressive house in town to give the ball in. The house, an adaptation of the Chateau de Blois, cost $3,000,000. And no one in Manhattan since has given a party as impressive as the one which warmed her house on the night of March 27, 1883. Alva Vanderbilt received her guests in an elaborate renaissance costume, fetchingly set off by the photographer with white doves...
Last week plans were made to bury Alva Smith Vanderbilt Belmont in New York's Woodlawn Cemetery. She will be interred beside her second husband* in the celebrated Belmont chapel, modeled after that of the Chateau at Amboise. She built that...
...Philadelphia suburb of Merion he has built (behind a loft. spite fence) a French Renaissance chateau that contains the greatest collection of modern art in the U. S., one of the greatest in the world. Dr. Barnes is no rich dunce with a fondness for pretty pictures. To occupy the spare time of his little factory staff he gave a course of lectures, assisted by his friend, Philosopher John Dewey. Since Artist William Glackens first got him interested in painting, he has traveled widely, read voraciously. His book The Art in Painting is a standard work on modern art. Dealers...
...faced with the improbable task of snaring a rogue whose nastiest proclivity is for turning his enemies into statues. This rogue (Gregory Ratoff) abducts a happy and prosperous flower girl (Gwili André), murders her aged father and plants evidence to incriminate her pickpocket lover. Then, in his shadowy chateau, he sets about hypnotizing her into a counterfeit princess, since he needs one for dishonest purposes. The prefect of police (Frank Morgan) is clever. He sets the pickpocket free with instructions to solve the mystery. The pickpocket not only does so but he filches so successfully in and about...