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Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, chamber music patron...
Otto Hermann Kahn, Manhattan financier-art-patron: "Word came-from London that I had chartered the Duke of Westminster's yacht, Flying Cloud, a sailing ship with auxiliary engines, for a cruise from Sicily in April, to Athens, the Greek islands and Venice, with guests: Novelists (Enoch) Arnold Bennett and David Gray, Editor Frank Crowninshield of Vanity Fair and Artist Paul Dougherty...
...after-dinner calls, recognized scarcely a face. James J. Walker, the mayor, they recognized. But he was only a guest. And deep-jowled Irvin S. Cobb, fat-jowled Senator Borah, curly-wolf Judge Landis, smartly tailored Speaker Nicholas Longworth, well-oiled little Roger Wolff Kahn (jazzy son of opera-patron Otto H. Kahn)-were only guests. The company itself was as anonymous as a banquet of the Boot and Shoe Retailers' Association...
...Jewish flesh and ingenuity would have beamed forth over a nightmarish mechanical design-the canary cries, watering the sensitive plant, which blushes, warming the matchhead, which ignites, inspiring the cat to commit suicide. In this case a high-grade bellboy might have been able to name the handsome patron: Cartoonist Rube Goldberg. The desk clerk could probably have named Mr. Goldberg's companions: Cartoonists Clare Briggs and Bud Fisher. . . . The first formal and annual dinner of the Cartoonists of America was a large event in a circle where events are not numerous...
...England, importunate Sir Thomas Beecham, patron and paladin of liberal music, has been beseeching the Government to bestow upon Composer Delius the Order of Merit, highest civilian honor (already possessed by Composer Sir Edward Elgar). "Before it is too late," pleads Sir Thomas. But the Government has other things to think about...