The Bat Tattoo

23 R. Albert Streeter

Hi. How you doing? This is R. Albert Streeter speaking, the same who was only a short time ago Adelbert Delarue. There was Delarue in Paris, now Hopla! here is Streeter in the Big Apple. The past is behind us. I am now an American billionaire. Big hat, much cattle, as we Yanks say. It goes; life goes on wherever it goes.

As in the song, so with me: the fundamental things do not change as time goes by. I have long been a patron of the arts and now I have in mind to make a larger commitment than before: yes, I think of opening a museum in London. I have acquired a first-class modern building designed by the internationally famous architect Wolfgang Krumm; with some alterations it will soon be ready for an exhibition of exciting and provocative works by artists competing for the R. Albert Streeter Prize of fifty thousand pounds. Folsom Bray, who was Director of the Post-Modern Gallery, will be Director of the R. Albert Streeter Museum and he will be as a chair for judges of suitable augustness. It is my especial desire to encourage artists whose talent has not yet been recognised and I hope there will be many interesting entries.

So, this ends my first report from the Big Apple, where the natives are always restless and the banks are friendly.