Word: chichiness
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...range and of his success. On the walls were menu covers for a steamship line, designs for his pastel-painted airports, drawings done as a LIFE war artist in India, silk-screen prints, lithographs and photographs of buildings on which he had collaborated, sculptures done for a chichi Hollywood bar, a huge restaurant mural in mosaic. "People think of me as a watercolorist," says Sheets, "because I've painted so many. Watercolors can be done in a hurry...
...York Daily News Drama Critic John Chapman, after viewing the chichi opening of Tonight at 8:30 (see THEATER), let go a loaded paragraph at first-night audiences: "They lit matches and smoked in the aisles . . . haughtily ignoring the feeble bleats of ushers who kept trying to tell these jerks that one doesn't do that sort of thing . . . in a sardine box like the National [Theater], I tried to find the fireman assigned to the house to suggest [that he] haul some well-dressed slob ... up to night court. But he wasn't around. Maybe...
...correspondents well knew that the hotel, with its three bars and five dining rooms, its two swimming pools and its comfortable if chichi rooms, is the best in Brazil. What they were squawking about were the communications between Quitandinha and Rio. They were bad. Only six telephone lines run to Rio. Besides, the correspondents saw no chance of finding quarters in the hotel's 350 rooms. They would have to commute three miles to Petropolis or 40-odd miles...
...Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney turned up at a chichi-choked benefit in Manhattan's Plaza Hotel wearing a ready-to-wear number, and copped first prize (a bottle of champagne) as the best-dressed woman of the evening. "Shall I take it off?" cried Mrs. Whitney-and did. But what came off was just an outer skirt. It turned out that you could also wear it as a hood or a cape. Financier Whitney said he was proud...
...Ludwig Bemelmans-Viking ($3). Most of the best of Bemelmans: 36 deft, witty stories of backstairs life in a plush Manhattan hotel, from earlier Bemelmans books (including all the stories in Hotel Splendide and Life Class), with three new stories added; lavishly decorated with the author's own chichi illustrations...