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...Herbert Hoover. Actress Ina Claire went as Episcopal Bishop William Thomas Manning, her escort was disguised as the Bishop's current antagonist, ex-Judge Benjamin Barr Lindsey (TIME, Dec. 15). Dancer Adele Astaire thought she was the opposite of an angel. Lady Ribblesdale went as Charlie Chaplin, Banker Mortimer Schiff as Oscar Wilde. Two socialite matrons chose to dress as "Ladies of the Temperance Union." Composer Cole Porter went as an oldtime footballer, his wife as a housemaid. Princess Hohenlohe-Schillingsfurst wore the robes...
...Collections. Noteworthy are the Persian treasures of these U. S. collectors: John Davison Rockefeller Jr. (rugs), the Metropolitan Museum's Havemeyer collection (most extensive and varied-glassware, pottery, earthenware bowls), Horace Havemeyer (rugs, pottery), Mortimer Schiff (pottery, including a famed Rhages bowl) and lesser collections owned by Charles B. Hoyt, George Pratt, Walter P. Chrysler, Mrs. William H. Moore, Mrs. Rainey Rogers...
...Carnegie Institute International Exhibition in 1927, the first prize was awarded to Henri Matisse for his Still Life. Last week, according to Director of Fine Arts Homer Schiff Saint-Gaudens, the Carnegie Institute had successfully settled a second wreath on the wrinkled Matisse brow. Modernist Matisse would, it was announced, along with two other European and three U. S. artists, serve on the 1930 Carnegie jury; in order to do so, he would pay his first visit...
Sample tax refunds: Mary Pickford Fairbanks ($10,163), John Davison Rockefeller ($157,227). Mortimer Schiff ($429,804), estate of William Jennings Bryan ($8,253), California Wine Association ($23,116), Thomas Alva Edison ($923), Edna Ferber...
...More on parade than the parading Scouts last week were Bigwigs who came complacently to watch. Birthday greetings were pronounced by the Duke of Connaught, who was, Scouts had been told, uncle to King George V. English Scouts soon forgot their recent jibes of "millionaires" when Mortimer L. Schiff (Kuhn Loeb & Co.), U. S. Scout vice president, presented a $50,000 check to them, "for the advancement of the British Scout movement...