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is exceedingly interesting and I only wish I knew where to get photographs of the leading German women.

   Last night Raymond and I had dinner with Mr. LaVerne Noyes, one of the Stonington Noyes whose father ot grandfather came west to an Illinois farm. He himself has been the inventor and manufacturer of the Aero Motors, the steel wind mills which you will remember are to be seen everywhere. He lives in a beautiful house on the Lake Shore Drive and is very fond of music. His wife died a year ago and he gave $300,000 in her memory to the University of Chicago for a gymnasium. As this work is under Gertrude Dudley I am glad that at last she is to have some chance of doing her work under fair conditions. After dinner we went to the opera and heard Christopher Columbus by the Italian composer Franchetti. The first two acts were really very beautiful, the last is exceedingly uninteresting, but the great Italian baritone Ruffo sang and the part of Queen Isabella was taken by a young Russian Jewess named Rose Rais who is only twenty-one years of age. She has some beautiful notes in her voice but is not specially well trained, However, the future is before her. 

    Mr. Noyes is a member of the Forty Club which has an annual gathering where they try to take each other off. At one of these meetings Wilbur Nesbit got off the following:
          
              Rockefeller, Gould, Morgan,
              Noyes has them skinned,
              They make theirs with water,
              He makes his with the wind.

                 With much[[,]] much love,
                            
[[signature]] Gretchen [[/signature]]

[[Stamped]] Archives of American Art [eagle topping encircled text] [[/stamped]]
^[[Mrs. Peter Voorhees
1959]]