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Died. Arnold Seligmann, 61, famed Paris art connoisseur, founder-president of Arnold Seligmann & Son (antiques & old masters) with Paris & Manhattan offices; of heart disease; in Paris. He advised Art Collectors William Randolph Hearst, the late John Pierpont Morgan, the late Thomas Fortune Ryan, the Rothschild family, the late Paul Dutasta...
...troubles were only one storm-centre in the mightily troubled newsprint industry.- Another stock stricken last week was Oesterreichische Credit-Anstalt fur Handel und Gewerbe, the name of which will play an important part in all financial histories of the present era. Formed by imperial decree in 1855, this Rothschild bank became the most important commercial house in southeastern Europe. When a run began on it last year. Austria tried to aid it, bringing on a crisis which spread to Germany where London banks became involved. The crisis became international and over half of the world was forced...
Lord & Fleas. The late Nathaniel Charles Rothschild collected and classified fleas. His brother Lionel Walter Rothschild Lord Rothschild collects and classifies birds and butterflies, is a much respected zoological systematise Lord Rothschild last week maintained the concept of "flexible species", that "individuals are never alike whatever their relationship to each other." For example he cited the commonest British mouse-flea (Ctenophthalmus agyrtes). "A calculation . . . to find among them two absolutely alike in the number and position of the bristles on the body arrives at the amusing figure of many million billions, a figure certainly in excess of that...
...heavy pelisse. An impressed English visitor to Paris said that Proust was "really the only man I ever saw dining in a fur coat." Some of the lions Proust tamed: Prince de Polignac, Count Robert de Montesquiou (chief prototype of Proust's "Baron de Charlus"), Baronne Alphonse de Rothschild, Edmond de Goncourt, Massenet, Saint-Saens, Anatole France, Prince Antoine Bibesco and his cousin Marthe. No coward, Proust fought a duel with a journalist who had reviewed him unfavorably. He was a Dreyfusard when merely to be a Jew in France was dangerous...
...sale of books by French War Veterans. In the limousine beside ancient M. Doumer rode alert, bristle-bearded Novelist Claude Farrère, President de la Société des Ecrivains Combattants who were staging their "War Veterans' Book Afternoon" in the nearby building of the Rothschild Foundation. Book sales were proceeding briskly and Novelist Farrère's wife Henriette had just succeeded in selling a third book by her husband to the brawny Russian in dark glasses who loitered beside the Farrère book booth, asking repeatedly: "Of course your husband will autograph these...