Georges de Porto, celebrated French dramatist and member of the Academy, was decorated as Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor.
M. de Porto has had his plays produced in the Comedie Francaise. He is one of the wealthy Jews of Paris and is of Askenazic stock.
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