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...unexpected guest in 1923 at a Versailles fete which raised only $5,000 to restore the French Bourbon kings' crumbling Versailles and Trianon palaces, John D. Rockefeller Jr. was shocked by their state of decay, gave the Comité $1,000,000. His workmen did a thorough Rockefeller job of repair. Later Mr. Rockefeller gave $2,080,000 more, some of it to restore the War-shelled Cathedral of Reims and to put the château of Fontainebleau in shape...
...Versailles for the unveiling of a stone tablet inscribed in gilt letters: "At the close of the World War a citizen of the United States of America, John D. Rockefeller Jr., contributed by his magnificent liberalities to the restoration of the chateau and park of Versailles, the palaces of Trianon and their gardens, the Cathedral of Reims and the château of Fontainebleau. In inscribing here the name of John D. Rockefeller Jr. the government of the Republic has wished to show the gratitude of the French people...
...double back roll when she was supposed to faint on a sofa. Last week at 80, Lady Charles Mendl, born Elsie de Wolfe, withered, bright-eyed Grand Old Woman of Franco-American socialites, was still doing back rolls, handstands and cartwheels in the garden of her Villa Trianon in Versailles to keep "young." And last week her prosperous, 31-year-old Manhattan decorating firm, Elsie de Wolfe, Inc., held its first exhibition of interiors...
Hotel Ambassador, (51st and Park Ave.) features Vincent Lopez in the new Trianon Room, and a fine cuisine...
Since an orchid is the puppet Emperor's official flower, his Legation in Tokyo was decked with 750 orchids. Wherever he appeared Japanese schoolchildren, drilled for weeks in a Hymn to Manchukuo, shrilled it. In Tokyo he was quartered in Akasaka Palace, a replica of the Trianon Palace at Versailles and in 1922 the Tokyo residence of Edward of Wales. There Boss Endo suddenly popped up to announce: "While Emperor Rang Te is here no political matters will be discussed. None whatever. The Manchukuan Constitution effectively keeps the Manchukuo Court out of politics...