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...costumes are by Cecil Beaton, who evidently lost his heart but not his wits in somebody's attic. The characters, their plight, their lines, their postures and emo tional attitudes are as exquisitely stylized as classical ballet...
...staged theatrical and musical shows; flower and vegetable gardens; painting; woodwork; a sports program; bridge drives, spelling bees and debates. "One debate," reports Y-man Strong, "was: 'Resolved, That in the opinion of this house it would be better to be married to Ginger Rogers than to Mrs. Beaton' [the British Fanny Farmer...
...goods advertised in Vogue, and thus the Nast judgments set patterns far beyond Vogue's own cirulation of a few hundred thousand. To his own women-readers Nast brought the excitement of modern art, from Seurat to Modigliani and to Covarrubias, the breath-taking photography of Steichen, Beaton, Lohse, Baron Hoyningen-Huene; and the vivid drama of fashion-drawings by Carl Ericsson, Sigrid Grafstrom, Count René Bouët-Willaumez and many others, which in turn influenced all U.S. advertising art. Vogue became a feminine bible of taste. Even its cheesecake was cool and cultured: cheesecake prettily iced...
...Cairo. All through the summer, 140 miles behind the lines, Cairo had sweltered and fidgeted, stirring uneasily under an occasional sprinkle of Axis aerial bombs. In & out of gaudy, mosquelike Shepheard's Hotel had streamed the city's potpourri: cotton kings, gamblers, Imperial soldiers, newsmen and Cecil Beaton, wincing at the din of "hurdy-gurdies, bicycle bells, news vendors, trams, bagpipes, loudspeakers and the braying of donkeys...
Wrote Photographer Beaton in Vogue: "The dust blows past the jalousies into the 'Art Moderne 1900' interiors, on to the pinnacles of bric-a-brac. . . . The heat becomes oppressive; only the darkened room is bearable." Before his eyes swam Beatonesque visions: "Prince Mohammed Ali, heir to the throne and cousin of King Farouk I ... in his tarboosh, morning coat and sponge-bag trousers, with an enormous emerald on one finger." . . . Madam Fouad El Manasterly at soirées in her garden overlooking the Nile. "The glitter of the Turkish standard candelabra and the white-draped musicians...