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...creation of a rotund, twinkling Frenchman, the Due de Trévise, whose great grandfather, one of Napoleon's marshals, was killed by an infernal machine in 1835 while riding beside King Louis Philippe. In gratitude to the family, the King gave their name to a street, the Rue de Trévise near the Folies-Bergère. When the Folies first opened it was gaily called the Folies-Trévise, a name which the furious family succeeded in getting changed. The present Duke likes to talk about this regretfully. "My grandparents," says he, "should have settled...
...Conquerors was an immediate critical success but sold badly. Living with his wife and two servants in a little apartment on the Rue du Bac - four rooms filled with Khmer statuary, Oriental books and hand-painted Persian linen panels on the walls - Malraux remained as secretive in Paris as he had been in Saïgon, met Indo-Chinese conspirators, Chinese revolutionists in his office, had so few contacts with the French literary world that even his closest friends did not know where he lived. The Conquerors was followed by a mediocre adventure story laid in Indo-China, The Royal...
Since an Egyptian bronze cat was installed at the St. Louis City Art Museum last month, attendance has increased rapidly. Last week the museum announced that the August total of visitors, 51,323, was the greatest since May 1914. The announcement was edged with rue however, because what the cat really dragged in for the St. Louis museum was trouble. Fortnight ago St. Louisans of such varied stripes as the Women's Chamber of Commerce and the American Artists' Congress were swelling with indignation at the purchase of a $14,400 piece of ancient sculpture while St. Louis...
...Wood's picture book was called How To Tell The Birds From The Flowers (and other Wood-cuts). In it he professed to find philosophical and pictorial resemblances between the crow and the crocus, the hawk and the hollyhock, the pea and the pewee, the rue and the rooster, the pecan and the toucan, many others. After 21 years and 17 editions, the book is still in print. It sells about 600 copies a year. Dr. Wood occasionally checks up on sales in department stores, to make sure that his publishers (currently, Dodd, Mead & Co.) are sending him enough...
Adrian J. P. LaRue '40 will be the soloist for the concert playing the clarinet concerto in A by Mozart. La Rue has played first chair of the clarinet section for three seasons...