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The huge Marshall Field residence, which cuts through the entire block on 69th and 70th Sts., just east of Fifth Ave., has been a white elephant ever since it was built less than a decade ago. The huge house was completed just about the time when Marshall Field and his first wife, the present Mrs. Diego Suarez, were divorced. And so neither Mr. Field nor Mrs. Suarez cared to live in it. Several times enterprising persons have tried to take over the building and make it into a club - and the energetic Mrs. Tuckerman Draper almost succeeded in making the nebulous Town and Country Club into an actuality. But the depression ruined all these plans. Now the house has been reconstructed into two apartments and Pierre Bourdelle has executed several wonderful murals for their lobbies. The murals, which are on exhibition at Jacques Seligman & Co., are carved in linoleum, painted and lacquered. The subjects are all chosen from contemporary New York life. Pierre Bourdelle, who is the son of the French sculptor, Antoine Bourdelle, married Barbara Barnes, Mortimer Barnes' daughter, a number of years ago. 

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