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...Music Hall auditorium is the decoration of the surrounding public rooms, for the most part the work of advanced young painters and sculptors encouraged by Mrs. John Davison Rockefeller Jr. In the lobby is a mighty mural by Ezra Winter. Yasuo Kuniyoshi decorated a ladies' "powder room" (toilet). The hands of Witold Gordon, Louis Bouche, Henry Billings, Donald Deskey (who art-directed the whole theatre) are in evidence...
...estate near Fairhaven, N. J., Manufacturer William Gerhard Mennen (toilet goods) was awakened at dawn by the barking of his four-month-old Scotch terrier, Scotty. He got up "to raise the devil with the dog," found his house in flames. Rousing his wife, he discovered the stairway to the servants' quarters blocked, telephoned the fire department, dashed into the kitchen to unleash the dog, rushed outdoors in his night clothes. Firemen soon arrived, rescued the unconscious servants, could not save the house. Manufacturer Mennen looked around the lawn, found Scotty lying dead of smoke suffocation...
...Toilet preparations...
...White House in 1929, Secretary Clark, who looks not unlike his erstwhile chief, was snapped up by Louis Kroh Liggett and made vice president of Drug Inc., $60,000,000 Liggett holding company. Mr. Clark became Mr. Liggett's Washington lobbyist. He worked against higher duties on drugs and toilet articles in the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act, against taxes on cosmetics in the 1932 Revenue Act. Drug Inc. has lent him to the White House, will pay his salary as its campaign contribution...
...Toilet Articles 10% Tax-free...