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...jewels that supposedly once belonged to Queen Isabella of Spain; in fact, they had been gathered by agents from New York hock shops. He built what was possibly the country's grandest opera house and imported for Denver's delectation almost every current luminary, from Sarah Bernhardt to Oscar Wilde (who bombed...
...visitors' map of points of interest in the early 1960s, the Brooklyn Academy of Music was nowhere to be found. Never mind that it is New York's oldest performing arts complex, founded in 1861. No matter that in its first golden age its stages presented Sarah Bernhardt in Camille, Admiral Peary showing lantern slides of his discovery of the North Pole, Anna Pavlova dancing The Dying Swan and Enrico Caruso giving one of his final operatic performances. Changing times had made the Academy as outdated as the hobble skirt. Manhattan had taken over as the focal point...
Brigitte Bardot as Don Juan? Why not? La Bardot, 38, in one of the most eye-raising pieces of casting since Sarah Bernhardt took on Hamlet, plays Don Juan as a dancer-turned-impresario whose chief occupation is ruining men of all ages. For the soon-to-be-released film, Director Roger Vadim did quite a job on his former wife: he got her to switch the color of her hair from blonde to brunette and "she even succeeded in changing her childish voice." Fortunately, he left the rest intact...
...audience was "the cream of Central Casting," said Bob Hope, adding: "This place looks like a living wax museum." The occasion: the 100th birthday of Adolph Zukor, who imported the U.S.'s first feature movie (Queen Elizabeth, starring Sarah Bernhardt), and founded Paramount Pictures. "I don't see many movies today," said Zukor, hunched over his cane, "because my eyesight isn't too good. I would work in pictures today if I were a young man." Zukor accepted homage from people like Alfred Hitchcock, James Stewart, Jack Benny, Diana Ross and Michael Caine. There were rose petals...
...clear their debts. They were usually cheated and left to rot among their isolated stands of dried-up trees while the profits went to Manaus, that rococo Sodom in the middle of the Amazon's vegetable sea. Before the rubber bust, Manaus' theaters starred Pavlova and Bernhardt, and its richest residents sent their shirts to London to be ironed...