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...world without souls." Bent on seeing to it that the souls of visiting Americans, at least, were not whisked away, Dr. Kirk set out on behalf of the Foreign Christian Union of New York, and with $46,000 raised in the U.S. and France, built a church on the Rue de Berri, off the Champs Elysees. "The services are to be Christian, simply and purely Christian," he wrote at the church's founding. "Except by a violation of compact, the chapel we are erecting can never become exclusively devoted to the forms of any one sect...
...mysteries (Mr. District Attorney), musicals (Phil Spitalny's show), and THE MARCH OF TIME. In her 20-odd Broadway roles, most of them undistinguished, she played everything from a Russian sniper to the Virgin Mary; but when Hollywood cast her as a prostitute in Murders in the Rue Morgue, her father shot off a hot wire: "Have just seen you half-naked on the screen. Come home...
...royal client, Louis XV. What Gabriel succeeded in doing was creating a square without surrounding it on four sides with buildings. To accomplish this, he formed a unit by crossing the axis of the Champs-Elysées, leading to Versailles, with a secondary axis delineated by the Rue Royale, which leads to the classic Church of the Madeleine. He marked the boundaries with a moat, placed small buildings in each corner, set an equestrian statue of the King in the center (the fountains and the Obelisk of Luxor were added later, in imitation of Rome's St. Peter...
Bitterly hurt, Louise retreated to Paris, where John Mackay bought her a mansion on the Rue de Tilsitt that was ''like the Palace Hotel, only on a smaller scale." She was quick to see that to Europeans it was completely unimportant that she had been snubbed in Manhattan. London and Paris expected lavish entertainment from Americans, not lineage. For two decades Louise Mackay supplied the entertainment. Her parties had a Babylonian magnificence, from "eighteen footmen on the stairs to the bowls of out-of-season violets in the blue salon." Her guests included the British royal family...
...place she moves competently from the mining disasters in the Comstock to the horrors of fire that time and again leveled the ramshackle towns of the West. In contrast there are the glittering balls in London's Marlborough House, yachting at Cowes and the stately bacchanals of the Rue de Tilsitt. It was a time when men grabbed for the main chance, when the difference between obscurity and unfathomable wealth could simply be the lucky stroke of a pickax. If John or Louise Mackay had a thought beyond material success, the book does not suggest it. They knew what...