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...salon," where poets recite new odes over cocktails and scholars extemporise treatises on Shakespeare at the dinner table. Irving Stein, who heads this circle, is a Jewish multimillionaire banker who heads this circle. His ideal in life is to create a "temple of beauty" at Broadlawns, his weekend estate. Clara, his unloved but valuable because Protestant wife, is "the centerpiece of his collection, the beautiful woman to whom the beautiful porcelains, the ivories and jades, the medieval tapestries and stained glass paid silent tribute," the "priestess for the shrine" in the suburbs...
There are many other purely local theme parks that rate a visit: notably Marriott's Great America in Santa Clara, Calif.; Nashville's Opryland, celebrating every mode of American music; and even the revivified Coney Island. They all offer an escape for a day-or two-into a world of myth and hokum, melody and bang-bang, insubstantial pageants and cloud-capp'd towers...
...loft and a berserk florist's, with wooden-slat love seats hung by chains from the ceiling, planters full of chrysanthemums, floor-to-ceiling mirrors and South American fishing baskets. Says Co-Owner Rick Parker, 23: "We built it to attract females." It does; they favor dark-red Clara Bow lips, heavy smoky eyelids and multilayered mascara, with plumage ranging from see-through sheers to stretchy tube tops and gauzy drawstring trousers. Among holders of some 200 VIP cards are Liz Ray, Senator S.I. Hayakawa and sundry Washington Redskins...
...Clara P. Trefethen...
Died. Ricardo Cortez, 77, suave silent-screen star who appeared in more than 350 movies; in Manhattan. Born Jack Krantz, he changed his name when Hollywood producers slated him to follow Rudolph Valentino in romantic parts with such actresses as Greta Garbo, Clara Bow and Dolores Del Rio. As a boy, he was a runner on Wall Street, and in later life became a stockbroker...