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...paper's criticism of the arts is also a match for the other city papers, though Film Critic Jonas Mekas tends to go overboard in his enthusiasm for the "underground movies" that are popular in the Village. In a recent ecstatic review of Andy Warhol's The Chelsea Girls, Mekas discerned not only an affinity to Victor Hugo and James Joyce, but also the very "essence and blood of our culture, the Great Society...
...London, Sotheby's sold a set of seven Chinese Chippendale mahogany dining chairs for $4,480, up 50% since last February. Porcelain prices zoomed as an early Chelsea scolopendrium tea pot sold for $10,640, an increase of 230% in four years. A Toulouse-Lautrec print, La Grande Loge, garnered the highest price yet paid for a modern print: $15,400, more than double its 1959 value. Sotheby's was jammed for the sale, and their suave hammerman, Peter Wilson, who knows everybody in the London art world by sight, said, "I'd never seen half...
HITCHCOCK: As a matter of fact, that effect first came to me at the Chelsea Arts Ball in London, about 2 A.M., when after many libations everything seemed to get further and further away. I remembered that effect when I first came to America to make Rebecca...
Unfortunately, the financial success of the New York Film Festival will probably serve to preserve is status as the "establishment" film festival. But maybe if nobody buys tickets next year, Richard Roud will have to program all eight hours of Andy Warhol's "The Chelsea Girls." And then,, everything will start to be all right...
...time to reminisce. In Quant by Quant, a precocious autobiography, she gaily details the way she broke into hot couture with her husband and business manager, Alexander Plunket Greene. "We were mad; the whole thing was hysterical," writes Mary, recalling the opening of their famous Bazaar shop in Chelsea. "The trade ignored us, they laughed at us openly." But she gives high fashion the needle right back. Mary observes happily: "Quite a number of the women who are awarded the annual title of 'best dressed women' are square...