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...summer consisted of Professor Percy E. Raymond, Professor Kirtley F. Mather, Dr. Ed Parejas of the University of Geneva, and twenty-two students. Of the latter, the great majority were Harvard undergraduates, with whom were enrolled Marshall Schalk, '29, John Hammond, Jr., '29, Rollin H. Norris, '29, C. W. Waldron, '10, Bradford Bissell, Cornell, '29, Harold W. Gale, Trinity '27, Forbes Hutchins, McGill, '30, and Peter Matlock, Cornell...
...Conservatives sang words of their own, however. "Stanley Boy" the song is to them. As to how the words got changed, this story is told: One Waldron Smithers, Conservative M.P., was asked by Prime Minister Baldwin to speak at a dance given for new Conservative voters. When Mr. Smithers arrived, Conservative couples were revolving on the floor to the strains of "Sonny Boy" Suddenly inspired, Mr. Smithers stepped to the platform, asked the bandmaster to repeat the selection. Then-even as the French patriot, Rouget de Lisle, is supposed to have improvised the "Marseillaise"; upon a cafe table...
When Louisine Waldron Elder was a young girl, she liked pictures. Particularly did she like pictures by Edgar Degas of be draggled and rhythmic danseuses stretching their weary tendons upon the ballet rack, pirouetting with a one, two, three and a pas-de-bas to the tattoo of the master's baton. Louisine saved her pin money, watched it swell to $100, took her hoard to a friend, Mary Cassatt. Mary Cassatt took it to Degas, bought a pic ture, the first to enter an American collection. "I sadly needed that money," said Degas...
...Louisine Waldron Elder mar ried Henry Osborne Havemeyer (Ameri can Sugar Refining Co.) and started to collect pictures in earnest. A few years later, she could walk into her private museum, gaze upon Veronese, del Sarto, Filippo Lippi, Rembrandt, de Hoogh, Hals, Rubens, Cranach, El Greco, Goya, Millet, Monet, Manet, Puvis de Chavannes, Re noir, Pissarro, Corot, Poussin, Ingres, Cezanne, Mary Cassatt and Degas. If the mood was not for pictures, there were sundry other objets d'art - marbles by Donatello, Cyprian glass, Italian faience, Japanese lacquers, Hispano-Moresque plaques, and a collection of weird Degas excursions into clay...
Divorced. Dr. R. Bartow Read, Manhattan medico; by Hope Waldron Williams, socially prominent Manhattan comedienne (Paris Bound, Holiday...