Word: cognoscenti
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...were proud to snag exclusive sales rights to Rosenstein models that set them back 60-$300 apiece, wholesale.* During the '20s, when the best was supposed to come from Paris, U.S. dress makers sold these fancy models under their own labels -plus an awed whisper from salesgirl to cognoscenti that they were really "Rosenstein's" -but in due course the Rosenstein label became too valuable to hide. Today in Manhattan, she sells to three or four other shops, but rights to her label belong exclusively to Bonwit Teller...
...Profundity must smile, glide gently in, and, smiling, yield itself to the initiate alone - that is the esoteric of our art. For the people, gay pictures; for the cognoscenti the mystery behind...
Therefore, when Cincinnati's thick-lipped Conductor Eugene Goossens last week announced the U. S. premiere of the "finest symphony of the past 15 years," musical cognoscenti lifted their brows. Fine symphonies of the past 15 years have included two by Finland's great bald Jean Sibelius, a half-dozen by such talented Russians as Dmitri Shostakovich, Serge Prokofieff and Tykon Krennikov . Conductor Goossens' entry for the honor was the Symphony in G Minor of reticent, little-known British Composer Ernest John Moeran. Premiered before a stuffy audience in Cincinnati's Music Hall, Moeran...
...production effort of shrewd, satchel-faced Sam Marx, erstwhile MGM story editor, super-supervised by Lucien Hubbard. Why such a product should call for twin entrepreneurs remains mysterious, since The Longest Night is designed rather for the Saturday morning diversion of schoolchildren than for the august judgment of the cognoscenti. It is a reasonably brisk embodiment of what neighborhood houses expect from a murder in a department store, including fun in the firearms department, wax dummies that come alive and slap policemen on the shoulder, pistol shots from a secret elevator, a kleptomaniac (Etienne Girardot), archery practice by a floorwalker...
...daughter who was lunching with him, sent him next day a jeweled ring, a panama hat, a cane. In the 40 years since then Henri has created many a melting masterpiece of his art. His name, no household word, is one to conjure with in the kitchens of the cognoscenti. Last fortnight he proudly served up his autobiography. The plain English carving was executed by Collaborator Boyden Sparkes, but the filling, the sauce, the flavor were pure Henri...