120 East 40 N.Y.C. 
I lunched with MacManus the other day and he 
seemed to be very well impressed with your first statement. He said 
he had already presented it to the victim and that he had seemed to be 
generally favourable to the idea but asked whether the expedition would 
come down on him later for another two hundred thousand. M said that 
it wouldn't and that his liability would end with fifty thousand. He 
said that he had raised the sum to fifty because thirty was too little 
and would be likely to prejudice him against the whole scheme as, if you 
remember I suggested myself when we were talking to M oxa that walk. 
Mr Fields, who is C's business manager did not consider the scheme in such 
a favourable light. M said he couldn't understand how F could be so 
had said that C 
ought to go to England to meet the expedition on its way back, or even go 
to Africa himself and be in the movies. M suggested that the expedition 
would certainly be entertained by the Lord Mayor of London and that perhaps 
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you might be even able to get the President to put in an appearance, seeing 
that the Zoo is a Government affair. He pointed out to C that there could 
be no better social connection than such a thing would provide and C saw 
the point of that. He is distinctly interested in the social side as 
well as the advertising. I don't know if I could interest Lord Sandwich 
to the point of helping socially, but of course one might try. He is very 
friendly dispose d towards me. There are all sorts of wires to be pulled 
like that, of course. 
John B. Kennedy of Collier's Magazine was at luncheon and M suggested 
that we try the idea on him. He jumped at it and said it was a PIP and 
that Pathe Hews reels were the very best kind of advertising for any 
scheme for any purpose. ^ 
