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Socially well-posted U. S. Negroes know that at Rome resides the most ancient and patrician aristocracy in Europe. Prince Massimo of Rome is an undisputed descendant of the Roman General Quintus Fabius Maximus, "The Delayer" (Third Century B. C.). The family of the late Prince Scipione Borghesi is both Royal and Papal. There are, in fact, dozens, scores, hundreds of Italian noblemen whole titles are genuine and venerable beyond reproach. Therefore, it was not surprising that in Paris last week, famed Negress Black Bottom, and Charleston performer Miss Josephine Baker, once of Harlem, now mistress of a Montmartre night...
...house in Baltimore, a mature-looking woman with pale, patrician flesh above her square-cut bodice, with brows like ribbons over quiet, uninterested dark eyes, looks out from a wooden panel at the doings of Jacob Epstein. Mr. Epstein, once a peddler,* now a dry-goods millionaire, will admit to a few friends that the lady cost him $250,000-about $1,250 per square inch since the portrait is only 17 in. x 11⅜ in. Her name is Emilia Pia de Montefeltro, and to set his mind at rest as to whether or not she was painted...
...Last year, we lost only four books," replied Mrs. Milner when asked if many books disappeared from the shelves. "We consider them 'borrowed' as in almost every case such a book is eventually returned. 'The Patrician' strayed back after four years of mysterious wanderings...
...appreciating it. In the first, Walter Damrosch is no pre-eminent figure. In the second, he is perhaps the greatest of all. Despite his drawing room graces, he is, at heart, a democrat. He works less for the highest perfection than for the most good. Sir Thomas Beecham, patrician British conductor, fled England when the government decided to subsidize radio broadcasting, avowed: "Broadcasting . . . bears as much relation to art as the roaring of the bull of Bashan bears to the voice of Galli-Curci." (TIME, Nov. 15). Declared Walter Damrosch: "If I continue broadcasting one orchestra for two years only...
...Helen Bond, a member no doubt of the Junior League. He appears in expensive cafés, twirling his native lasso, topped with a wide-brimmed sombrero, upholstered in furry, wild-West leg-clothes, a sight for any romantic heifer. Helen's aunt snubs him in her most patrician manner until a group of nobles inform him that he is, in reality, the long-lost heir to the throne of Eldorado. Much against his democratic inclinations, he kings it for a while over "that Eldorado tribe," mangling the traditions, making love to his Helen, and lording it over...