PORTERIANA

Speranza

With his royalty checks from "An old fashioned garden", giving his bank account a much-needed boost, Porter returned to Paris, married Linda Lee, and began his life of party-giver and pleasure-seeker.

He did not abandon music, however, devoting much time to the study of harmony and counterpoint under Vincent d'Indy at the Schola Cantorum in Paris.

In 1923 Porter's affluence was enhanced even more when J. O. Cole died and left his grandson over $1 million.

Then, as Porter once put it, "I could go to Venice".

During the early Twenties, Porter interrupted his leafe of ease only twice: to write songs for another HITCHY-KOO revue that never came to New York, and to contribute the score for Greenwich Village Follies (1924). "I'm in Love Again" was sung by the Dolly Sisters and danced by Robert Alton -- the only song to win popularity.

Among the many people who never gave up their efforts to induce Porter to return to Broadway, the only one to succeed was E. Ray Goetz.

Goetz journeyed to the Lido in 1928.