Babar in Society

On the society page of the New York Herald Tribune one day last week appeared the following item: "Mr. and Mrs. Debar de Brunhoff, of Paris, announce the birth of triplets, Pom, Flore and Alexandre, early in March in Paris. The entire family is now in New York visiting Mrs. Richard A. Kimball (Josephine J. Dodge) at 714 Madison Avenue. Mrs. de Brunhoff is the former Miss Celeste d'Aguillon, of Paris."

At No. 714 Madison Avenue, where Mrs. Kimball runs a children's bookstore, the happy family was not only visiting but also on sale. The triplets are indeed the children of Jean de Brunhoff, but only in a mental sense. For five years, until his death last October, M. de Brunhoff delighted children and adults with tales of two adventurous elephants, Babar and Celeste. Last week Mrs. Kimball opened a bundle from Paris with the latest Babar book and found that Celeste had become the mother of three little elephant babies (see cut). She decided that this was news for the Herald Tribune; her only disappointment was that the society reporter did not get Babar's name straight.

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