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...that Marti Stevens ever got to be a professional singer. As a youngster she had a French governess, later had a society debut, and was supposed to settle down into the life of a well-to-do Manhattanite. But Marti was-the eldest daughter of Movie Magnate Nicholas M. Schenck. She never got over the procession of show-business stars who came visiting at the Schenck household when Marti was in pigtails. "I just sat in a corner and watched those wonderful people do their tricks." In her teens, she started to collect Helen Morgan records...
...fraternizing with the enemy. In Manhattan, Cinemogul Nicholas Schenck sat down with RCA's President David Sarnoff to discuss ways & means for M-G-M movie stars to appear on NBC television shows...
...cafe society, Broker J. (for James) Arthur Warner, 52, has long cut quite a figure. A wavy-haired frequenter of Manhattan's Stork Club and other elegant pubs, he numbered among his friends such leading lights as Walter Winchell, Ginger Rogers and Cinemogul Joseph Schenck. By cafe society standards, Warner really arrived two years ago when his second wife, a beauteous Hollywood B-movie player named Kay Buckley, walked out after exactly 21 days of marriage, with a wedding present of $100,000 in cash...
...major acquisition: a bronze Diana, accompanied by a little stag. The 36-inch-high figure, modeled by a Greek of the 2nd or 3rd century B.C., is extraordinarily well preserved. It has a windblown freshness and grace that no later sculptor could have improved on. Gallery Director Edgar Schenck would not say what his sculpture cost, but made clear that he thought it priceless: "We believe there is no other Greek bronze yet discovered which compares in size and quality to our Diana...
...Tozzi saw the divinity under the dirt, bought Diana from a Roman art dealer, and spent six months lovingly cleaning her. By the time he had finished the task this spring, museum men across the U.S. and from Britain were anxious to have her. Fortunately for Buffalo, Schenck had bid first...