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...young woman dodged through the cordon of police at the palace gate, sprinting for the portal. She was Miss Prudence ("Cherub") Trotter, smart enfant terrible, daughter of august Sir Victor Murray Coutts Trotter, Chief Justice of the High Court of Madras. She brandished an appeal. It besought His Majesty to urge upon Parliament in his Speech from the Throne immediate passage of the bill giving votes to all women over 21. Miss Trotter, just 20, evidently did not know that the boon she craved had already been drafted into the text of the Speech from the Throne. Soon...
...lives away from the world in the forest at Montfort-l'Amaury, concerning himself with the creation of music: for grown-ups his orchestral valse, his mocking Tziganes, his naughty I'Heure Espagnole; for children, his lovely Mother Goose suite and l'Enfant et les Sortileges?a happier balance than his contemporaries have found. In the U. S. for three months, he will conduct the New York, Boston, San Francisco and Cleveland orchestras, will appear also in Los Angeles, Portland, Seattle, Vancouver, St. Paul, Minneapolis, Kansas City, Denver, St. Louis, Houston and Philadelphia...
...Inventor. Electrical genius made D. D. Knowles an enfant terrible in his early youth. From wiring doorknobs and pianos to shock imprudent visitors in his Ohio home, he turned to electric traps for the destruction of hen-ravishing hawks. Less than four years ago he was graduated by Purdue University...
...that if newsgatherers had approached him last week for his esthetic views on skyscraper construction, the Gothic master-builder of the U. S. might have stunned them by replying, as he has said before, that "bird cage" or steel-frame construction, the enfant terrible of architecture, will probably grow up safely into a dignified adult. And he might have stunned them further-he the disciple of William Morris and deplorer of the vanishing of skilled craftsmen in wood, stone, embroidery, leather, stained glass-by telling them that he hopes some day to write a history of U. S. architecture which...
...Seymour Parker Gilbert such financiers as John Pierpont Morgan, 59, of 23 Wall Street, loom as fiscal gaffers. Yet there are among active U. S. fiscal titans men of a youthful middle age. For example, Clarence Dillon, of Dillon, Read & Co., is 44. Mr. Dillon is of course the enfant terrible of Wall Street, "a comer," who has "come," a dollar-genius brilliant enough to negotiate the sale of Dodge motors last year for $146,000,000 cash, yet sufficient ly orthodox to declare: "There is no advice you can give a man except this: 'Do your job better...