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...Author. Mr. Felix Isman was once the business partner of Weber and Fields. With them he ran the Broadway Theatre, Manhattan, and produced many successes. They begged him to write this book about them. When it ran serially in the Saturday Evening Post, Wesley W. Stout was given credit as joint author. In the foreword Mr. Isman (an Elk, a Mason, now a realtor) thanks Mr. Stout for his assistance...
With the aid of the Lieutenant Governor, Felix Toupin, a fiery little man of French descent who presided over the Senate, the Democrats began a filibuster a year ago to compel the Republicans to agree to a Constitutional Convention to do away with the "rotten borough" system. The filibuster lasted from January to June, with frequent clashes, several of which went to the point of physical violence. Finally in June, at the end of a heated session of 50 hours' duration, someone placed a bromine gas bomb behind the Lieutenant Governor's chair. The Democrats said...
Continuing, Herr Warburg said: "My brothers Paul [onetime head of the Federal Reserve Bank] and Felix [financier, member of Kuhn, Loeb & Co., Manhattan] are American citizens. Paul holds an office in America equivalent to the presidency of the Reichsbank. Throughout the whole War, he never once saw President Wilson and, therefore, could hardly have controlled the United States Government...
Divorce Rumored. Mrs. Mathilda Townsend Gerry, from her husband, Peter Goelet Gerry, U. S. Senator from Rhode Island; in Paris. Mrs. Gerry, prominent hostess in Washington, D. C., last January bought a string of dark pearls from Felix Yusupov, Russian princeling, allegedly valued...
...from history, nameless, irreproachable, erect. Much have they seen since one Rembrandt Harmens van Rijn, by painting them, preserved their finery from the fate that overtook its fashion. Lately, they have been themselves much watched, talked of?that serene lady, that impeccable gentleman:?because a destitute nobleman, Felix Yusupov, once prince in Russia, sold them to a U. S. financier and art collector, Joseph E. Widener, of Philadelphia, so cheaply that he felt himself cheated (TIME, Nov. 3). Last week in Philadelphia, they were spoken of again?and for another reason. Their owner announced that since his father, Peter...