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Like most children of the professional play world, to whom five minutes' cordial applause somehow connotes complete triumph over Fortune, and a crisp five-dollar bill in the hand the equivalent of Croesus' sceptre, she has arrived at old age forlorn. Her house in Paris is tenanted by people who for two years have eluded the rent collector. She is in this country in an effort to recover her sight. Her foster son has deserted her. Her jewels are pawned. She has only the memory of her contemporaries, whose past brilliance still can cause her cataract-dimmed eyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Sep. 5, 1927 | 9/5/1927 | See Source »

...railroads, his villages, cliffs, painted motor buses, trolley-cars, skyscrapers, his coupons, clerks, cigars and the polite young men who look after his money and call him "Sir." It is pleasant to feel that these things now largely take care of themselves. It is pleasanter to be Maecenas than Croesus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Maecenas | 11/8/1926 | See Source »

...Billings' business is investments, his life is sports. He would rather be the owner, breeder and driver of the fastest trotting horses than have the power and riches of a Croesus. As a sportsman, he is strictly an amateur. None of his horses have ever raced for money; in fact, at his own racetrack in Memphis he prohibits all betting. It cost him a million dollars to produce Lou Dillon and her record, but he was glad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Julius Talks to Calvin | 8/30/1926 | See Source »

...Basil Zaharoff, famed "mystery munitions Croesus of Europe" (TIME, March 8, MONACO), contributed 1,000,000 francs to a "Save the Franc Fund," now being administered by Marshal Joffre. Other contributors: City of Lyons, 250,000; the Paris Herald (U. S. expatriates' daily), 100,000 francs and 222,000 more from its readers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Save the Franc!'' | 5/3/1926 | See Source »

...What did Europe's "mystery munitions Croesus" do last week? (See FRANCE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Quiz: May 3, 1926 | 5/3/1926 | See Source »

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