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...didn't see a single damn Rebel warship or a single mine. I'll go anywhere merchant ships can go as long as I've got a sturdy British bottom like the Seven Seas Spray, a good crew and my daughter Fifi. . . . She has no intention of marrying, but prefers to remain with me. She doesn't know what fear is, and during our trip from Saint-Jean-de-Luz she was right there on the bridge, wearing trousers...
...works of this founder of modern painting has the U.S. seen in recent years, but this at the Bignou Gallery had the distinction of having, in the flesh and walking about the rooms, the white-bearded old gentleman who discovered Cézanne as an artist: Dealer-Collector Ambroise ("Fifi") Vollard (TIME, Nov. 13, 1933). Dealer Vollard, who has trapdoors cut in the doors of his Paris house for his favorite cats, but seldom bothers to give them names, admitted that he had posed 115 times for the Cézanne portrait of him in last week's exhibition...
...contract. Only clue to Judge Puffle's possible appearance was the 30-foot silhouette of a pinguid, plug-hatted figure, not unlike Major Hoople in outline, which loomed above the orchestra and the heads of 20 blonde hostesses and Official Greeters James J. Braddock & Fifi D'Orsay at King Features' Waldorf party. Selling Judge Puffle sight unseen on the basis of Major Hoople's fame, King Features last week reported signing up Hearstpapers in 16 cities, 52 non-Hearstpapers besides. N. E. A. counterclaimed that not one of its 500 clients had dropped Hoople for Puffle...
Docking in Manhattan after a year in Sweden, Greta Garbo granted the first formal interview of her career to newshawks. After ten minutes of evasive chit-chat she rose to go, was cornered by deep-bosomed Cinemactress Fifi D'Orsay who gurgled "GeeGee, do you remember Fifi? I am so 'appee...
...Died. Mary Cora Urquhart Brown Potter, 76, who jolted Victorian morals by deserting society to become the stage sensation of two continents; of pneumonia; near Cannes. In 1912 she retired to the Isle of Guernsey, studied Yogi philosophy, wrote comforting letters to her much-troubled daughter, Anne Urquhart Potter ("Fifi") Stillman McCormick. Died. David Sheldon Barry, 76, long-time newspaper correspondent, onetime (1919-33) Sergeant-at-Arms of the U. S. Senate; of heart disease; in Washington D. C. Died. William Hope ("Coin") Harvey, 84, oldtime champion of bimetallism on whose coattails William Jennings Bryan rose to fame; of peritonitis...