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Poet Laureate Robert Bridges once fired a snooty spitball at all highbrows who peep into the boudoir of Art and try to "explain" her naked mysteries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Peeping Toms | 2/2/1948 | See Source »

Even the constabulary gasped last night as Marie Cord, featured ecdysiast at the Howard Atheneum, recovered from an early evening, fully-clothed examination on WHRV by greeting CRIMSON reporters and photographers in the more homey surroundings of her in town boudoir...

Author: By Charles W. Bailey, | Title: Stripteuse Displays Pet Bangles for Crime | 12/5/1947 | See Source »

Robbed: Sari Gabor ("Zsazsa") Hilton, emerald-eyed, diamond-bright Miss Hungary of 1936, estranged wife of Hotelman Conrad Hilton (New York's Plaza, Los Angeles' Town House, Chicago's Palmer House); in the mirrored boudoir of her Manhattan penthouse. Jewel-&-fur-bearing Mrs. Hilton (who once told tabloid reporters that unidentified villains had kept her in "continuous slumber" for six months with mysterious drugs) now reported to police that a tall stranger in a grey suit, fedora, pigskin gloves and dark glasses had tied her and her maid to a love seat and made off with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Resting Comfortably | 10/13/1947 | See Source »

...that victory, says Feuchtwanger, Franklin owed his success less to the wisdom of French policy than to a whim of Antoinette. It will probably be news to paid-up members of the D.A.R. that so much of the American Revolution was won on the playing fields of a Versailles boudoir...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Surefire | 9/22/1947 | See Source »

...French of Jean Cocteau by Ronald Duncan; produced by John C. Wilson) and, what's more remarkable, flies backwards. Famed French Avant-Gardist Cocteau's "romantic melodrama" is outdated purple-&-plush palace theatrics, which starts off with a poet-revolutionist plunging through a window into the royal boudoir, and winds up with a dying queen toppling headlong down a vast flight of stairs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Mar. 31, 1947 | 3/31/1947 | See Source »

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