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Several weeks ago Lucien J. Demotte, the son, came to this country, and announced that his father's business had been incorporated, that he had been made President of the company, and would take active charge of the business. One so young...
...Lucien Guitry and Mile. Spinelli (French favorites seen several seasons ago at the Ziegfeld Frolic) have the leading parts in Le Lion et la Poule, by Sacha Guitry, the first important production of the Paris season...
...Goncourt Academy awarded the 5,000-franc ($300) Goncourt literary prize to M. Lucien Fabre, an automobile engineer, who wrote Rabevel, a family history in three volumes. The importance of winning the prize lies in the prestige it gives the winner and in the increased book sales which result...
...house of Demotte added another canto to its tragi-comedy when Lucien, 17-year-old son of the late George Joseph Demotte, millionaire collector and dealer in medieval art, succeeded to the Presidency of the $2,000,000-corporation, and essayed to carry on as manager of Demotte's New York branch. Still fresh in the minds of art followers are the $500,000 damage suit of the elder Demotte against Sir Joseph Duveen, London dealer, for reflections upon the authenticity of art works sold by Demotte; the melodramatic trial in Paris of Jean Vigoroux, former agent of Demotte...
...Young Lucien Demotte is qualified. From his cradle he absorbed aesthetics, verbally from his father, mentally from the finest private library on Gothic art in France, visually from the art treasures of Europe, in chateau, cathedral and gallery. He knows intimately and authoritatively every work in the Demotte collection. He has just returned from a trip through the Middle West...