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Louder than any tenor in Rigoletto, Per fumer François Coty complained last week of the fickleness of women. Women had smiled upon his perfume business, built up his fortune until it reached nearly $35,000,000 in the lush days of 1929, allowed him to buy newspapers, attempt to become Senator from Corsica...
...papers, the conservative Figaro and blatant Ami du Peuple, have lost money consistently. He lost more in subsidizing the unsuccessful Paris-Tokyo non-stop flight of Aviators Lebrix & Doret. The Coty perfume business has felt Depression. And last week the former Mme Coty obtained a court order forcing François Coty to pay her an additional...
...Honor Guest at the French Embassy Ball, she opened it with Count François de Buisseret of the Belgian Embassy...
...York Philharmonic-Symphony concert in the Lewisohn Stadium appeared a Polonaise by Chopin-Mitchell. Mrs. Mitchell, long an amateur pianist and student of harmony, had studied orchestration under Composer Rubin Goldmark. Why not show what she could do with the work of Frédéric François Chopin, composer and friend to pretty women and romantic dowagers? Said she: "I didn't let anyone know. It was more fun than playing bridge or going to parties." For three hours a day she worked at piano and composition, presently had her score ready for Conductor Willem...
...from Paris' Le Bourget Field, into the dawn one day last week flew a great Dewoitine monoplane built for Perfumer François Coty. Its long, tapered wings stretched out 95 ft. Its Hispano Suiza engine roared with 650 h. p. Its narrow fuselage bore the legend Trait d'Union ("Hyphen"). In the cabin were short, squint-eyed Joseph Marie Lebrix, onetime flying partner (now enemy) of Dieudonné Coste; famed Aerobat Marcel Doret, and Mechanic René Mesnin. They were bound nonstop for Tokyo, 6,032 mi. away, farther than any plane had flown in a straight...