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...turning in tremendous profits. The effect of this has been that Gold Fever, always smoldering in the mind of man, has flamed fiercer than ever. One evidence of this is seen on the stock exchanges. Alaska Juneau (the big Treadwell Mine), Dome Mines (of which Broker Jules Semon Bache is president), Mclntyre-Porcupine, Homestake, Tech-Hughes, are all selling near or above their 1930 highs. Another evidence of the fever is seen wherever there is a chance of gold being found. Globe, Ariz, bubbled with excitement last week on the report that the so-called "Lost Dutchman" mine in Superstition...
Proceeds of last week's exhibit will go to a non-sectarian organization known as Big Sisters. Present on the opening day in their shiniest toppers and most brilliant jewels were such latter-day Guelphs & Ghibellines as Otto Hermann Kahn, John Hays Hammond, Philip Lehman. Jules Semon Bache, Alexander Hamilton Rice, Miss Lizzie Bliss, Lady Mendl, Leonard C. Hanna...
...Florence Sheftel Bache, divorced wife (1925) of Financier Jules Semon Bache of Manhattan, window-shopping in Paris, paused to gaze at a display of stones in a jeweler's show window. Her gaze turned quickly to intent scrutiny. She notified the police, soon recovered nearly all of $160,000 worth of jewels which were stolen from her when, in 1928 at Biarritz, she was chloroformed while napping in her hotel room...
...gold. Second, he had just engineered for his museum the largest exhibition of Rembrandts ever assembled in the U. S. There were 78 paintings, ten of them owned in Detroit, many loaned by the nation's wealthiest private collectors -John Pierpont Morgan, Michael Friedsam, Charles M. Schwab, Jules Semon Bache, et al. Of another event-of-the-week Director Valentiner was prouder still. He was able to announce that, thanks to his own astute connoisseurship, his Detroit Institute of Art had acquired a genuine Titian, the golden, mellow portrait of a Venetian Doge. For this masterpiece, which he valued...
...only in December. This decline was offset, however, by heavy buying earlier in the year. Total business was reported to have exceeded that of any year since 1913. Approxmately one-third of the $250,000,000 was spent on old masters. Chief buyers: Collector Thomas Benedict Clarke, Banker Jules Semon Bache, Motorman Lawrence P. Fisher, Financier-Socialite Joseph E. Widener, Publisher William Randolph Hearst, Capitalist Sam Adolph Lewisohn, many a museum. Chief buy: Delia Francesco's The Crucifixion bought from Anderson Galleries by Sir Joseph Duveen...