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Show Whistler Couldn't Pass Up Opportunity to Use Bailiffs Mrs. A. M. Moncrieff, who has just celebrated her eighty-eighth birthday, knew many of the great Victorians in the days when, as Nita Gaetano, she was a celebrated celebrat-ed singer and tells some good stories about them. Once she dined with Whistler, the famous artist, whose pictures now sell for fabulous sums. Two manservants were waiting table. "You must be doing well, selling sell-ing a lot of paintings," she remarked, re-marked, a little surprised that Whistler should "splash" so. "No," whispered her host. "They're bailiffs. I thought they might as well be doing something useful." |