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...company stood by respectfully, Bori received rich tributes. In behalf of 200 friends, Mrs. Vincent Astor gave her a diamond brooch which once belonged to Empress Eugénie. For the Metropolitan Opera Guild Mrs. August Belmont presented a gold traveling clock. The Metropolitan directors gave their usual scroll; the chorus, a silver coffee urn; the stage hands, a silver vase; the orchestra, a plaque. Nothing seemed to please Bori more than when Manager Edward Johnson handed her a silver bowl filled with gladioli "from the great Maestro Arturo Toscanini...
...Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton. A daughter and sister of Carnival Royalty, "Coco" Jahncke was born in 1915 on Twelfth Night (Jan. 6), official opening of the New Orleans Carnival season. That year her father was Rex, Lord of Misrule, King of Carnival. Small "Coco" received a scroll designating her Princess Royal. In 1929 her mother, Cora Van Voorhis Stanton Jahncke, was one of the six lesser Carnival Queens at the Mystic Club ball. In 1931 her elder sister, Adele Townsend Jahncke Dotson, reigned over the Mistick Krewe of Comus at the most exclusive of the Mardi Gras balls...
...William Willard ("Willie") Crocker became a vice president in 1919 after a year's training tour through Manhattan's Bankers Trust Co. Like his father, he went to Yale (Class of 1915), earned a crew Y, a Phi Beta Kappa key, a tap on the back from Scroll & Keys. After a turn at the Harvard Law School, he drove an ambulance in France, attended a French artillery school, transferred to the U. S. Army after the U. S. entered...
...detective had seen him taking photographs, which when developed showed a passing warship. He was severely questioned ten hours a day for eleven days, taken to a hotel at night. Japanese police thought they had hit on something real when they found in Pierce's baggage a scroll showing that Mark Pierce is entitled to be called "Colonel" in the State of Kentucky. Other suspicious facts: he was interested in yachting and photography, was an undertaker. Inasmuch as Mr. Pierce had once opposed anti-Japanese bills as a member of the California legislature and had come to Japan...
Heavy with presents were the trunks. From the Met's stagehands there was a parchment scroll in a revolving bronze frame. The choristers gave a bronze plaque, the U. S. singers a silver plaque, the orchestramen a gold plaque. From Geraldine Farrar there was a silver loving cup, another from Rosa Ponselle. The administrative assistants chose a silver fitted traveling-case. The Metropolitan directors gave a silver tray with a set of resolutions. Board Chairman Paul Drennan Cravath was more practical. His gift: a bust of Mr. Gatti to be placed in the Metropolitan. Gatti asked only...