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...ceased to be a hero, he resolved to turn villain. The brilliance of his strategy is plain in this picture, which he wrote himself, sold for $1. The story is laid in a castle outside Vienna, seen from the perspective of the servants' hall. Gilbert is a new chauffeur with a monkey's flair for mischief. Plausible, playful, roving-eyed, he spreads ruin and rage around...
...Commonwealth of Massachusetts wanted a picture of former Governor Frank Gilman Allen to hang in the Boston State House, Governor Allen chose Manhattan Artist Henry Louis Wolff. Frank Gilman Allen is a big-handed leather tycoon who "would rather pick blueberries than do anything else" and can outpick his chauffeur ten quarts to six. Artist Wolff painted a portrait of a benignly smiling man with his big hands casually in his trousers pockets. Subject Allen was pleased. But last week in Boston the State...
...escort of the Englishwomen. "Monsieur," said he, "you have insulted two ladies." Legionnaire Arnaud challenged Clark to a duel with rapiers. Mr. Clark, demanding his right as the challenged party, stipulated fists. M. Arnaud replied that if Mr. Clark wished a vulgar brawl he would send his chauffeur to fight him. Mr. Clark hit M. Arnaud on the chin. Gendarmes separated the two. M. Poiret went home...
Before much longer Lil loses interest in Legendre. She takes up with her chauffeur and a visiting socialite named Gaerste. When she follows Gaerste to Manhattan, Bill follows also to tell Gaerste about the chauffeur. Lil chases her husband home, shoots him, leaves him being nursed by the first Mrs. Legendre. When Legendre, remarried to his first wife, is traveling with her in Europe, they catch one more glimpse of Lil. Gay and more pleased with herself than she should be, she has an Hispano-Suiza, a racehorse, a Marquis, in addition to her chauffeur, Albert...
Died. Edward Foster Swift, 68, board chairman of Swift & Co. (meat packing); killed instantly in a fall from a window of his apartment which he had apparently thrown open after breakfast; in Chicago. His waiting chauffeur witnessed the headlong plunge. Though his brother Charles Henry first announced that Packer Swift had been in poor health, had been planning an immediate European vacation, he later stated his brother "had been in his usual good health and spirits. . . . His affairs are in excellent condition." Packer Swift's son said: "Father was always insisting on fresh air." Second of the six able...