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...Manhattan last week popped a Johann Strauss III on his way to Chicago to conduct a 45-piece waltz orchestra at the swank French Casino. Johann Strauss III is 68, a grandson of Johann Strauss I, a nephew of Johann Strauss II whom he greatly resembles. Johann III has the old Strauss way of conducting while fiddling. He inherited his uncle's job as Court Ball conductor for old Emperor Franz Josef. But for most Viennese his chief claim to fame is his name. His compositions (he brought "ein trunksful'') are mediocre and rarely played...
...been there for years. It is the obituary of John D. Rockefeller Sr. Few weeks ago when aged, ailing Mr. Rockefeller went to Florida, newshawks begged his famed pressagent, Ivy Ledbetter Lee, to help them bring his client's obituary up-to-date. Last week in the swank Lee offices at No. 15 Broad St., Manhattan, the Lee associates went into a hurried conference over an obituary-not for John D. Rockefeller but for Ivy Lee. Death had come suddenly to the nation's first "public relations counselor" in his 58th year. Cause: brain tumor...
France. With rare exceptions no hotel in France is making money and the swank Claridge, Plaza-Athénée and George V in Paris have suffered most of all. What little tourist trade there was last summer took refuge in smaller, cheaper places. French prices are still high even in terms of gold, and in terms of the dollar exorbitant. What is true of France is true of Netherlands and Belgium. Switzerland, where hotelkeeping is the third industry, is even gloomier...
...expensive. After lunch, to her great delight, a police escort cleared the way to City Hall. Bumbling Mayor O'Brien was out. Said Annie: 'I ain't going to wait. I'm just as Irish as he is." She had tea with caviar in a swank restaurant, dined with Showman Samuel L. ("Roxy'') Rothafel, saw a preview of Lady For A Day. Taken to a farewell supper, she waltzed, drank, acted as if her Day were to last forever. At midnight Apple Annie vanished from the ball. The pressagents gave...
...last year's art season was closing, Knoedler's swank Manhattan art gallery made art news by giving an important loan exhibition of Goya paintings (TIME, April 23). This week, with a new season just under way, Knoedler's again made news with another important loan show. On exhibition were 31 canvases by Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot. Carefully selected, the pictures clearly revealed the charm which has made Corot a necessity in every big museum in the world, has caused him to be included in most Grade A private collections. Surprisingly realistic were his Femme Accoudee (lent by Horace Havermeyer...