Word: 57th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Baldish, roly-poly Federico Cantú, once an apprentice of Muralist Rivera, filled 57th Street's Guy Mayer Gallery more conventionally, with cactus, horses, ban-doleered soldiers and bedraggled peons. Best painting: a tropically rank portrait of Mexican Singer Aurelia Colomo (see cut), who carols tropically in the bar of Manhattan's Hotel Weylin...
Biggest rise, according to the Crossley findings, was that of The Aldrich Family, which was in 40th place a year ago. Biggest fall was that of Pot o' Gold, which plummeted from 10th to 57th place. Gratifying to radio's peers and commoners alike were Crossley's observations that programming had improved, that radio had more people by the ear than ever...
When World War II swept over Europe, the world's art capital, by default, became Manhattan. The art centre of 57th Street, always cosmopolitan, began to bristle more than ever with foreign names...
...some, Robert Taylor and Norma Shearer may appear an invincible argument against "Escape." But the Pomona College hot-dog has grown into a serious-minded actor of ability; and Norma Shearer, if not your dream girl, makes a very satisfactory countess from E. 57th St. The atmosphere is thick with Nazi ideology: uniforms, clicking heels, and subdued voices. The swastika is very photogenic and provides exciting plot material. Exciting, but perhaps too true to be good...
...Manhattan's 5th Avenue and 57th Street one morning last week two heavy glass doors revolved, admitted the first of 14,000 opening-day gawkers to Tiffany & Co.'s new store. Before them in fluorescent-lighted showcases lay the toniest U. S. jeweler's dazzling stock: diamond solitaires up to 20½ carats (price: $100,000), pearls (up to $243,000 a string), emeralds, sapphires. The radiance of thousands of stones seemed to spread out and warm the visitors, an effect increased by spotlights hidden in the high soundproofed ceiling. Said Mrs. John F. Bigelow, a Tiffany...