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...Geoffery and intellectual sparring-partner extraordinary, and various menials, of whom Oliver, Geoffrey's man, is alone indispensable. The others leave because Geoffrey plays the piano in the middle of the night, but no one seems to mind except the unfortunate Mrs. Rodney. However, when Janet brings an affinity, Claudia Kitts, to live and work with her as a measure of self-defense and retaliation, Geoffrey introduces Edgar Fuller, who comes from Ohio or Oregon or somewhere to study elocution. The resulting mix-up, due entirely to the super-sensitiveness of the high strung, emotional people involved, is very amusing...

Author: By A. C. B., | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 11/22/1923 | See Source »

Engaged. Baron James Henri de Rothschild, " handsome, young banker," who has been studying in America, to Mile. Claudia Dupont, French debutante. (A $500,000 breach of promise suit instituted by Mile. Marie Porquet against Baron de Rothschild in the New York Supreme Court has been withdrawn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jun. 25, 1923 | 6/25/1923 | See Source »

After ending her feud with Claudia Muzio by a loving embrace at Monte Carlo, Mary Garden became publicly reconciled with Ganna Walska McConnick and Lucian Muratore on the occasion of Muratore's debut at the Opéra Comique, Paris. And credence is being given to the report that the great tenor and the doubtful soprano will sing in the Chicago Opera next season, despite the fact that both had sworn never to do so while Mary reigned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Paris | 4/21/1923 | See Source »

...Claudia, after being dramatically rescued from her faithless English spouse, falls in love with her rescuer and is busily engaged in studying the somewhat involved international and interstate divorce laws when the rescuer goes blind and betakes himself to a school for disabled soldiers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pirates and Flappers* | 3/24/1923 | See Source »

...children of Rufus are three-Diana, the eldest, is cold, fascinating, a little cynical, dangles her feet over innumerable precipices, and has always managed to pull them back in time; Claudia, the second daughter, is an instance of war-marriage in haste and equally hasty repentance; the youngest is Sheila, of the jazz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pirates and Flappers* | 3/24/1923 | See Source »

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