Word: daly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...party of cops. It turned out Miss Golden and the horse had been visiting bars between Park Avenue and Times Square. When the cops found her she was trying to teach the horse the tango. ∙ ∙ A hotel in Del Monte, Calif, got an order from Surrealist Salvador Dali for party decorations. The order: 2,000 pine trees, 5,000 gunny sacks, 4,000 pounds of newspapers, four truckloads of pumpkins and melons, one wrecked automobile, one baby giraffe, three goats...
Manhattan's 57th St. last week turned up an almost unheard-of Spanish painter, Arturo Souto, a solemn, round-bellied Galician. Unlike most celebrated modern Spanish artists (Picasso, Miro, Dali, Gris, et al.) Painter Souto has done most of his painting away from Paris. His heavily stippled, somber-colored paintings of street scenes and peasant figures look conservative alongside the geometric and psychopathic fantasies of his more famed countrymen. But his 'work is agreeably realistic and dourly, muddily individual...
...Hampton Manor, 486-acre estate near Bowling Green, Va. The estate, with a brick mansion, built in 1838 by Virginia Legislator Daniel de Jarnette from plans by his friend Thomas Jefferson, is now owned by Mrs. Caresse Crosby, late of literary Paris. Her house guests were Arch-Surrealist Salvador Dali & wife. Hence the dilly-Dali...
Surrealist Dali suggested to his hostess that it would be fun to "enchant" Hampton Manor into a surrealist paradise. Mrs. Crosby was enchanted with the idea. Together they set to work. Their plans called for gigantic statues of daddy longlegs with the faces of Greek goddesses and medieval heroines, "a headless woman from the recipe of a surrealist magician of the Middle Ages," perfumed fountains, loudspeakers making moans from the bushes, corpselike manikins with flowing hair trailing in the waters of a pond. Said Mrs. Crosby: "I am doing this enchanted garden as an experiment with the white magic...
When their surrealist garden is finished (probably some time in May), Dali and Mrs. Crosby expect to charge admission ($1 in the daytime, $1.50 at night...