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...take a guy with a mellow manner and a voice of blue velvet, name of Bing Crosby, add several measures of topflight tapping by Fred Astaire, sprinkle happily with a few cups of amusement by Billy De Wolfe and Olga San Juan, stir in 32 Irving Berlin tunes of ageless vintage, and include (more or less as a seasoning afterthought) a pretty feline-eyed gal whom the boys call Joan Caulfield. The final product--"Blue Skies"--should be, and is, by cinema standards, a fine bit of musical entertainment. Its conventionally silly plot has Caulfield vacillating between Crosby and Astaire...
Just how odd they were Ryder was finding out for himself. Sebastian's father, Lord Marchmain, lived in Italy with an Italian mistress. His wife lived in Venice with a gentleman poet. ". . . Always drifting about the canals in a gondola with [him]," exclaimed Anthony Blanche, who was as "ageless as a lizard" and knew the family well "-such attitudes, my dear, like Madame Recamier; once, I passed them, and [the] gondolier . . . gave me such a wink. . . . She sucks [men's] blood. You can see the toothmarks all over Adrian's . . . shoulders when he is bathing...
...priest was proved right is the climax to Brideshead Revisited, in which the ageless theme of rebirth through death is used melodramatically by Author Waugh to resurrect the remnants of the tottering family and leave Artist Ryder sadder, wiser, still unmarried to Lady Julia-and a religious man. Soon after, Ryder, now a soldier, watched troops being billeted at Brideshead...
...nostalgia. In city rooms and editorial sanctums all over the U.S. there are oldtimers ready at the drop of a Martini to reminisce about the Herald's drafty, dingy shop in the rue du Louvre beside a clangorous trolley line; to swap legends about the fabulous, wispy, ageless columnist "Sparrow" Robertson who sent his copy over from Harry's New York Bar and lived 20 years in Paris knowing only one word of French-ici; to quote the letter signed "Old Philadelphia Lady" (asking how to convert Centigrade into Fahrenheit) which appeared day after day for 20 years...
Lady Mendl, eightyish, ageless, international smart-setter, predicted great things for her wartime home, Hollywood. Said she: "Hollywood is the new kingdom of youth and ambition. . . . This is the new focal point of civilization. .. . Among the kings and queens of the future, the stars of Hollywood will be prominently enthroned...