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...recent dispatch to the New York Herald Tribune, an American connoisseur of art has carried from the shores of France no less than a historic relic of primary importance, a monument to French Democracy--in fact, the very bath tub in which the great Marat was stabbed by Charlotte Corday. This new fad of Americans no longer to confine themselves to purely artistic objects and to enter the field of historic memorials has caused the fellow countrymen of Watteau and Monet to rise in righteous anger to defend their national treasures. At present, their efforts have taken the form...
TIME (Jan. 21), in telling about Circusman John Ringling's purchase of the tub in which Jean Paul Marat was assas sinated by Charlotte Corday, mentioned Tubmen Diogenes and Earl Carroll, omitted Archimedes...
John Ringling, circusman, purchased last week for $400 the bathtub in which French Revolutionist Jean Paul Marat was lolling when Charlotte Corday assassinated him. Other famed bathtubs, unpriced, are linked with Diogenes, Earl Carroll...
...prehistoric times Montmartre was the resort of geophagists, or 'dirt eaters' who came from leagues around to partake of the succulent and nutritive clay still to be found in this part of Paris. . . . Apparently clay eating continued in Montmartre until comparatively recent times. . . . For example, when Charlotte Corday assassinated the revolutionary demagogue, Jean Paul Marat on July 13, 1793, she may not have known that he had just quaffed a decanter full of powdered Montmartre clay steeped in almond water...
Besides A. H. Stafford '26 and Howard Finney '26, other members of the cast who take leading parts are C. R. Frazier '27 as Mary Burnett, and C. H. Morgan 1G. as Lord Corday, aide to the Prince...