Word: du
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Also ousted last week was William Childs & Wife & Family from management of the 125-restaurant chain founded by two brothers Childs. To control came William A. Barber with perhaps the backing of certain Delaware du Ponts. On the new Childs directorate are Hollyday S. Meeds Jr., son-in-law of T. Coleman du Pont and Lucius M. Boomer, with whose hotel interests the du Ponts are said to be connected. So little has the Childs Co. remained the child of Childs, that sentimental Brother William appeared to own less than 3% of its stock. Nevertheless he said, on quitting: "This...
Fatter Cameramen. Once forced to hurry from place to place, carrying heavy paraphernalia, cameramen are now pushed about in soundproof wheeled booths invented to keep the whir of the camera from recording on the sound-device. Last week two specimen cameramen, one Ed Du Par and one Ray Foster, both of Warner, gained respectively seven pounds, 15 pounds...
Ladies who in the past have presided over brilliant salons are Mme. du Barry, Mme. de Staël and the author of this book. The salon was fast becoming a lost art when Mrs. Draper staged her revival, substituted garish Bohemian cushions for frail gilt chairs, substituted brusque moderns for précieux. In "memories of a world that has passed" she reconstructs her London music room; then peoples it with musicians-Thibaud, Rubinstein, Ysaye-and with listeners- James, Sargent, Norman Douglas. Of each she makes a shrewd, if flattering, portrait. Of Henry James she threatens to write...
...long been the foremost patron of education in the almost feudally du Pont state of Delaware and brother Pierre is reputed to have wanted to retire from active business before the du Fonts ever bought into G. M. C. Moreover, it is a du Pont tradition for elders to make way for juniors. T. Coleman (elder cousin), Pierre, Irenee and Lammot were successive presidents of E. I. du Pont de Nemours...
...Robert Henri, bright, sketchy painter of children whose eyes would pop at dolls and toy engines, whose lips would pucker wetly at lollypops, won the Temple Gold Medal for painting with his fluffy, serious Wee Woman. A lean, angular and sour ancient in a dark figured dress, called Madame du Tarte, won for Richard Lahey the Carol Beck Medal for portraiture. Bruce Moore's Black Panther, in savage, undulating stride, won the George D. Widener Memorial Gold Medal for sculpture...