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Donnarae’Vernay Wade ’10 was among the regulars who braved the longer-than-usual wait. The Dunster House resident said she eats Boloco burritos “all the time...
...Meaning of Wealth." Before the 52nd Street house was sold. Plant called in Architect Guy Lowell, supervising architect of Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, to design the new mansion, including a library of Jacobean carved-oak paneling (see cut). To furnish the town house, Antique Dealer Arthur Vernay ransacked his own collection, sent scouts throughout Europe. The result has borne well the test of time. For the jade, Chinese porcelains, 18th-century French furniture, paneling, fixtures. Royal Beauvais tapestries by Jean-Baptiste Oudry, paintings by Watteau, Gainsborough, Lawrence, Romney and Raeburn. the current market will pay back...
...American Museum of Natural History has felt self-conscious about a gap in its collection of animal skeletons-the skull of the rare, nearly extinct Java rhinoceros, which has never been shown in any zoo on earth. Since 1920 the museum has sent many expeditions, financed by Trustee Arthur Vernay, to Malaya on fruitless searches for the shy beast...
...Trustee Vernay had not yet been notified of the good news last week. Said a curator: "We're afraid to tell...
...Hunting Tigers in India," now at the Repertory Theatre, is an instructive and entertaining record of Vernay's expedition for the American Museum of Natural History. Billed as an all-talkie,. it was filmed in India with silent cameras and later synchronized to allow an announcer to take the place of titles. Opening at the home of one of the leaders, the film, except for occasional cutbacks, rambles on with an unseen speaker and a background of music...