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Andrew W. Mellon, Secretary of the Treasury: "In Paris I told a friend that on my first French visit 44 years ago, the late Henry C. Frick of Pittsburgh and I, having occasion to go to a dance in Paris, but lacking evening clothes, rented some from a Latin Quarter store and had the most enjoyable time I have ever experienced in Paris...
...best fancy skaters in the country, the skating carnival, for the benefit of the Radcliffe Endowment Fund, will be held at the Boston Arena this evening at 8 o'clock. Mrs. L. C. Mueller will skate in a brilliant and spectacular number as a Sun Goddess, while Mr. William Frick, a popular skater who appears often at the Arena, will give an exhibition in spiral skating...
Besides exhibitions by other well-known Boston skaters, the program will include special exhibitions by Mrs. L. C. Muller and Mr. William Frick, popular professionals who appear often at the Arena. One of the features of the afternoon will be a hockey match between Radcliffe college and a team composed of Boston debutantes...
Unquestionably tremendous international publicity has been given to the purchase of such pictures as the "Blue Boy" at fabulous prices, and the steady piling up of art treasures by collecors like Frick, Altman, Johnson, and Huntington has made this country, especially since the war, a storehouse of famous paintings largely brought from abroad. As a result a flair for anything foreign developed and the effect on American art has been widespread. Individually, little can be done by American artists to stave off this influx of foreign-born art beyond all reason. No literary test can be-applied and there...
...thinking and acting in a very large and very generous way Mr. Frick did a notable public service; and so far as Princeton, Technology, and Harvard are concerned, he greatly relieved a precarious situation. His will is truly remarkable. Of the entire estate five-sixths, or approximately one hundred and seventeen million dollars, is to be devoted solely to the interests of the general public--to charity, art, and education...