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Dream. Year ago Adrian decided it was time to make his dream come true. He had saved a lot of money and he married ex-Star Janet Gaynor (who people say is worth $4,000,000). He would have the most beautiful custom salon in the country. By September he had signed a ten-year lease for the Victor Hugo, once a fine restaurant,* then fancy nightclub, and planned expensive alterations. But when war came, his expenses, for a temporary shop on Beverly Drive, a factory in downtown Los Angeles, and Press Agent Russell Birdwell, were about...
...shop Adrian opened last week is done in two colors, a greyish blue-green and a greyish shell pink. Adrian's office is in blue-green, even the radio and cigaret stand. In the custom room, next to his office, the drapes are hand-woven of capeskin, suede and gold metallic strands, and hang from ceiling to floor. In the retail room the drapes also stretch from ceiling to floor, but here they are of cheap cotton duck...
Motif No. 1 is the name U.S. artists (aping a French custom) give to a 75-year-old fish shack at the end of a wharf in Rockport, Mass. Motif No. 1 is probably the No. 1 U.S. art subject. It has been watercolored, oiled, gouached, penciled, etched, lithographed, photographed. Last month, by a publisher's inadvertence, Motif No. 1 turned up on the jacket of Mary Heaton Vorse's Time and the Town (TIME, July 20), a chronicle of Provincetown, Rockport's rival art colony. Rockport was outraged...
...crop to a Memphis cotton factor for $50,000. He gypped his hands out of "everything he thought they would stand . . . sold them cheap whiskey at bonded prices for what little money they did draw." In 1917 cotton went to 50?. Old Man Town, in his $75 custom-made boots, his faded wash pants, his wide Stetson and his 50? work gloves, was a Cotton King. Mrs. Town decided that her daughters should become Delta Queens. Old Man Town's lawyer bought them "a wine-colored brick monstrosity" on Memphis' Speedway. The girls were enrolled in Miss...
...accordance with Town Meeting custom, a question period will make up the latter portion of the hour-long session...