Word: beaton
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Still it was not a perfect Traviata. Created nine years ago by Director Alfred Lunt and Designer Cecil Beaton, this production has Violetta's bedroom looking like a barn in winter-something Walt Disney might have conceived in homage to Charles Addams. Because the windows are so high and remote, the poor girl cannot even get to the win dow to watch the revelers in the last act. The current stage director, Fabrizio Melano, has not really resolved all the old problems: the Baron's challenge to Alfredo in Act III, for example, comes off much too tame...
...MAGIC IMAGE by Cecil Beaton and Gail Buckland. 304 pages. Little, Brown. $19.95. This is that rarest of items: a photography book in which words are more important than pictures. Authors Beaton, noted stage designer and photographer, and Buckland nave attempted nothing less ambitious than a full history of photography and its practitioners from 1839 to the present. Beaton's introduction is elegant and concise, as are the biographical sketches of more than 200 photographers. Inevitably, gaps and biases appear. Salon and experimental artists receive favored treatment, while the works of such realists as Matthew Brady, Jacob Riis...
...graciously gossipy publisher of Women's Wear Daily and seven other trade publications, W has toiled relentlessly to depict, extol and embody that elusive trait. This year alone, W has identified everything from Quality People (Queen Elizabeth, Elliot Richardson, Julia Child, the Due de Brissac, Sir Cecil Beaton and 33 others) to Quality Bread (Poilane and Panetier, two Paris boulangeries). Quips a Fairchild Publications art director: "Pretty soon we'll have to change the name from...
Friend and schoolmate of George Orwell and Cecil Beaton, Connolly came down from Oxford with ambitions of becoming a novelist or an epic poet. Instead he wrote mostly critical essays, which soon established him as a powerful influence among English intellectuals. In 1939 he founded the monthly magazine Horizon, which became a literary showcase, publishing the likes of T.S. Eliot, E.M. Forster and Andre Gide...
Within a short time, the princess was carrying on in stiff-upper-lip fashion, issuing a statement in which she expressed concern for those hurt in the incident: McConnell, 46; the driver, Alec Callender, 55; the bodyguard, James Beaton, 30; and the policeman, Michael Hills, 22. All were later reported in satisfactory condition...