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...constructive ways to invest his money. He lost a lot two years ago backing a musical show for his artist friend Peter Arno, but the experience did not diminish his liking for and friendship with such characters as Robert Benchley and Donald Ogden Stewart. His aunt, Mrs. Leonard K. Elmhurst, backed The New Republic and Asia. Nephew Jock owns a substantial slice of Polo. Lately he was reported investigating the possibilities of founding a new cinema company...
...kind of man Gould, the unscrupulous railway pirate, could understand. Before long he was Gould's "secretary" (armed bodyguard), finally a full fledged Gould partner-and then how the money rolled in! He married, built a great rambling mid-Victorian palazzo at Riverdale-on-Hudson known as "Elmhurst." This he crammed from cellar to garret with costly knicknacks. There were gold plated bathtubs, tables of green malachite, huge bronze angels in the hall clutching armfuls of electric bulbs; paintings, tapestries, cabinets of jade and precious stones...
...feel of a good knife. He built a special armory near the main house and filled it with morions, pikes, arquebusses, rapiers, burganets, daggs, arbalests, cabassets, lobstertailed salades, crossbows and Courlandish tschinkes. His stable was the pride of the Hudson. To the day of his death the Doge of Elmhurst cursed the automobiles that frightened his horses and sent his smart Brewster phaetons into ditches...
Like most men who lead violent lives, Morosini's artistic taste was that of a bright 15-year-old boy. He loved to play soldier. Besides his valuable armor, Elmhurst was littered with Napoleonic shakos, sword belts, sashes, gold epaulets, bits of uniform. In last week's sale were a dozen battle scenes painted with iron hard detail and Noah's Ark color by 19th Century followers of Meissonier and Detaille: cavalry charges, artillery duels, the Battle of Wagram, Franco-Prussian war scenes, Renaissance gallants dueling, George III in full coronation robes, Louis XIV taking...
...Giulia Morosini went all the old Doge's treasures. In her last years she became a recluse, kept Elmhurst locked to all but a few intimates though she was always extremely generous to charities. Last February she died, leaving ample bequests to her brothers & sisters and a dozen institutions, and the pick of her father's armor collection to the Metropolitan Museum. To settle the residue of the estate, one auction of furniture and household effects was held at Elmhurst last spring. There was still enough left to keep auctioneers busy for six days last week. All Miss...