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Soon Alexander was possessed of two sooty straws. One he held betwixt thumb and forefinger as his automobile proceeded down the street in which the Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria and his wife were assassinated-thus starting the World...
...paintings and furnishings of the Astor residence, 840 Fifth Ave., Manhattan, the name of Mr. Ringling was repeated. More than a hundred Astor pictures were sold in two days (for a total of $35,295) and John Ringling bought a great many of them, paying $1,750 for Ferdinand Roybet's "The Connoisseurs", $1,350 for a picture by Constant Troyon of a dog herding sheep. When the report of the sale appeared, certain supercilious people made bold to ask, "Since when have circus men been picture buyers...
Conversion. Queen Marie of Roumania, British reared daughter of the Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and therefore closely related to the British reigning house (now called Windsor), was brought up a Protestant. Her husband, King Ferdinand, is a Catholic. Yet their five living children were reared in the Greek Orthodox faith. Last week, according to Bucharest despatches, she joined the church of her offspring...
...philosophers are expected. From Europe will probably come Rector Lapie of the University of Paris and Rector Del Vecchio of the University of Rome; Professors Giovanni Gentile (ethics) of Italy; Etienne Gilson of the Sorbonne and Levy Bruhl of the French Institute; William D. Ross, J. A. Smith and Ferdinand C. Schiller of Oxford; John Burnet of St. Andrews. From the various philosophical departments of U. S. universities and colleges: Professor Guy A. Tawney of Cincinnati, President of the western branch of the American Philosophical Society; President John G. Hibben of Princeton; Professors Alexander Meiklejohn of Wisconsin, Edward S. Ames...
...this is true and out of no story book. But it goes into a story book most readily. The young gentleman who has romanticized it was born in another tradition of colorful early America (a distant uncle was minister of finance to Ferdinand and Isabella). His literary abilities more than deserve the graceful prefatory gesture that is accorded them by Edward Lucas White...