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...When Muriel Draper was a little girl in Haverhill, Mass., her father, who had promised her a trip to Boston, took her with him to his bank, where he tried to cash a check for $100 that he planned to spend on the trip. After a moment's delay, the cashier announced, "Sorry . . your account won't carry that." Smiling, Muriel's father wrote out another check and handed it to the cashier, saying, "Well, give me ten ones." Then, on $10, Muriel and her father went to Boston...
...Muriel never forgot that. It taught her that mundane reality need never interfere with pleasure, provided one had excitement and enthusiasm. For a long time, however, mundane reality did not interfere with Muriel at all. Though her father had his ups & downs, his children were brought up in genteel New England comfort, and in 1909, when Muriel was 22, she married wealthy Paul Draper, brother of Monologuist Ruth Draper. The newlyweds pleasured off to Italy, where Paul, who wanted to become a concert singer, studied...
Always Interested. In Italy, Muriel had her first son, Paul Jr. In Italy, too, she fell under the spell of the gilded intellectual and artistic set of pre-1914 Europe-Art Critic Bernard Berenson. Violinist Albert Spalding, Actress Eleonora Duse, Dilettante Mabel Dodge, and John Reed, who later glorified the Russian Revolution in Ten Days That Shook the World, and now lies buried beneath the Kremlin wall...
...Drapers moved to London, where Victorianism was deeply buried under the lush Edwardian bloom. Muriel set about creating a salon to rival Mabel Dodge's villa in Florence. To the Draper home at 19A Edith Grove came such notables as Painter John Singer Sargent, Writers Norman Douglas, Gertrude Stein and Henry James. The great preoccupation at 19A Edith Grove was music, some of it provided by husband Paul, more of it by Cellist Pablo Casals. Pianist Artur Rubinstein or Singer Feodor Chaliapin. Beginning late in the evening, the music often lasted till morning, when everyone would adjourn...
...about 160 papers she is still Dorothy Dix, but in 20 others the column now appears under her maiden name, Muriel Nissen. The old-school, no-nonsense advice is the same mixture as before. Recently, "A.L." wrote: "My husband and I are both in our fifties ... get along very well except that he doesn't like the radio. When he comes home from work he has dinner, then settles down to read for the evening . . . never takes me any place, we have no company and I am really very lonely." Columnist Agnelli's advice: "Be thankful...