The Great Estates: Greenwich, Connecticut 1880-1930. Canaan, New Hampshire: for The Junior League of Greenwich, Connecticut, Inc., by Phoenix Publishing.

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The Great Estates: Greenwich, Connecticut 1880-1930. Canaan, New Hampshire: for The Junior League of Greenwich, Connecticut, Inc., by Phoenix Publishing.

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EarlyFam1.040.003

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The Great Estates: Greenwich, Connecticut 1880-1930. Canaan, New Hampshire: for The Junior League of Greenwich, Connecticut, Inc., by Phoenix Publishing. Includes a one page description of Frederick C. Whitney's home with reference to his opera company. "His most famous venture was the New York production of The Chocolate Soldier, adapted from George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man. With music by Oscar Straus, the English version of this operetta was an instant hit, and time proved it to be an enduring one."