Word: amsterdam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many an oldster, dozing over last week's show, must have dreamed back to the great days of the New Amsterdam Theater, where the late, great Florenz Ziegfeld made summer official with a new Follies. Perhaps memory winged back to the Follies of 1917, with W. C. Fields, Eddie Cantor, Will Rogers, Fanny Brice, Bert Williams, Walter Catlett, Peggy Hopkins (later Joyce) in the cast. Or to the Follies of 1919, with a cast hardly less impressive, and such tunes as Tulip Time, Mandy, and the nonpareil Bert Williams' You Cannot Make Your Shimmy Shake...
...Amsterdam roof, after the show, Ziegfeld offered his Midnight Frolic, the most glamorous memory in Manhattan nightclub history. There John J. Pershing did some of his victory dancing and the jazz age got under its fanciest headway to the strains of the late Art Hickman's great band from California playing Avalon, Japanese Sandman and the Tishomingo Blues. There, after midnight, lemonades brought appalling Prohibition prices, the Follies chorus and principals entertained, and the most notable playboys of the postwar period started on their hair-losing ways...
Cornell won a Rhodes Scholarship. Be tween terms at Oxford he worked for the United Press in Amsterdam...
...trend was even more pronounced: for ?100-par Polish 4½s the price hit 28 (almost six times their wartime low), Greek 7s went to 27 (up from a low of 8), Danish 45 to 51 (from 20). And on the day after the African invasion the Amsterdam bourse had such a flood of hopeful buying (e.g. Royal Dutch 1,000-florin par went to 361, up 100 points from the month before) that the Nazis stepped in and decreed that henceforth stock prices could not change more than 3% from the day before...
Painted during one of Europe's most war-torn centuries (the 17th), these 70 old Dutch masterpieces are as placid as a cow pasture. They depict not only the quiet surroundings but the quiet minds of sober, thrifty Dutch burghers: well-fed merchants of Amsterdam and Haarlem and their complacent, buxom wives, peaceful seascapes, fertile landscapes, plethoric fishmarkets, tables loaded with fruit and flowers. What makes them great art is no transcendental or heroic message but the unequaled quality of their honest, painstaking craftsmanship...