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to the "Castle" with Rose Oliver, Dot Young, Alice & the others - it was a damned shame.  I didn't appreciate Blanche at first but found her later to be a very fine girl, particularly interested in music and opera, of course, but interested in many other things too - very good company.  She didn't look like one of the 400 and I presume that put the kibosh on her with Bamford, etc.

Mimi Cermian:  Mimi stayed with the Bowers a week or ten days.  About 30 maybe, dark and Frenchy looking, she was smart as a whip and a good swimmer.  Her family, it seems, once had money and lost it in the Depression, so Mimi struck out on her own and now runs a restaurant down on Vesey St. in New York.  Taft and Campbell well there for lunch together after they got back.  They kidded Mimi and Taft a lot because they went back to New York on the same sleeper - would be just too bad, etc. etc.  I think it shocked some of the more staid guests a trifle.

The Simons:  Mrs. Simon, a lady of maybe 48 or 50, was the next to best lady tennis player at Shanty Shane and her excellent manners on the court had my admiration.  She was possessor also of the best car at the place, a Packard Super-eight & chauffeur, "Mac".  She reminded me strongly of Tony Luther in looks.  A short, rather heavy woman with very undeveloped legs from the knees down, it was a miracle to me how she played such good tennis, not spectacular but steady enough to take over all but Mrs. Archer.  Her son, Bob, a Harvard undergrad, was up for about four days, and belying his first impression,