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...price, nobody knows what figures (if any) have been mentioned in the Barnes-Raver tête-à-têtes. Puget Sound has total assets of $137,343,000, and E. P. S. (which owns 99.3% of the common) has sunk some $33,000,000 in the property. Before he can claim anything for his common, Mr. Barnes must get $70,000,000 for Puget Sound's bonds and prior preference stock, and satisfy the holders of $26,400,000 of preferred, who also, with the prior preference, are owed $16,224,000 in arrearages. That means...
...world's most exclusive clubs. Here had fraternized some of the bluest U. S. bloods - nine Adamses, seven Lowells, eleven Cabots. If the Lowells speak only to the Cabots and the Cabots only to God, the Pore is where they hold their téte-à-tétes...
John Fane, a sleepy, upper-middle-class London publisher, father of four grown children; and Mary Fane, who putters around their country home planning parish fêtes and dinners for twelve. At 53 John finds he has money, leisure, no fun. Soon he has a town apartment, a mistress, no wife...
...Danse dans un Pavilion de Jardin (see cut), painted about 1718, is one of the famous Fêtes Galantes of Watteau's maturity. Watteau ran away from home, did hack work, was rescued by rich friends, resented their kindnesses, died young (37) of tuberculosis. But he lived in Paris in a graceful period and reflected its graces...
...says one, "je n'aime pas le cri de ces animaux." Better than Indians, says the other. By the way, says the first, you haven't seen any snakes tonight, have you? No, not tonight-"Ce sont de sales bétes, ces serpents a sonnettes. . . " At the end of the Revolution, Lafayette cries: "C'est la victoire . . . l'alliance entre les Etats Unis et la France a triomphe!" Last program is a grand roundup of U. S. noises, including the roar of "les chutes du Niagara" birds twittering, a bear's grunt. Coney Island...