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...There was never less cause for a wake, but Manhattan's El Morocco closed down (it opens again next week, in a new spot two blocks east), and the gilded popinjays of two worlds turned up to keen. Surrealist Salvador Dali was there in a vest that could have been made by Youngstown Sheet & Tube, chatting with Mrs. Hugh ("Chic Rosie") Chisholm. Toots Shor made a ground swell on the dance floor. The usual duchesses were there (Argyll, Westminster), the usual film stars (Jimmy Stewart, Henry Fonda), the usual sporty financiers (Serge Semenenko, Huntington Hartford). The room where Humphrey...
...What would my brother be doing? He'd be a horrible ass of some sort-a terrible gland case." Alex was "rocked" by the urge to paint when he first saw the works of Brueghel, but he modeled himself on George Grosz with a dash of Salvador Dali. The walls of his Park Avenue apartment are lined with pictures that look like bad dreams. King switched to illustrating books for bread-and-butter money, then bolted to journalism, and after his LIFE stint became managing editor of Stage. "Then I really hit bottom," says King. "I started writing plays...
Columbus, planting on American soil the banner of the Immaculate Conception, "ees shown as a youth," Dali explains in his macaronic idiom, "because thees painting represent le dream of Columbus, and youth ees le time for dreams. Other figures are monks and sailors qui come along weeth Columbus." Modestly he adds that the monk completely hidden in his cowl is actually a self-portrait. The giant sea urchin in the foreground represents "le real shape of le earth as discovered by le American Satellite Explorer Two" (actually, Vanguard Beta). In his dream, Dali's young Columbus meets not Indians...
Meeting of Left & Right. Is all this surrealistic? Not exactly. The surrealists startled the world in the 1930s with part sexual and part malicious images jigsawed into dreamlike arrangements. The new Dali is out not to shock but to seduce; he subordinates all symbols to pictorial splendor. And, like James Joyce in literature, he delights in demonstrating his utter mastery of varying techniques and styles. "Eet ees interesting que I have used on le left a very realistic technique," he murmurs, waving his enameled cane, "and on le right le technique of les pointillists." Hidden among the dots and stripes...
...According to one historian, Luis Ulloa, Columbus was a Catalan from the province of Gerona. Dali therefore has evidence that his theory is more than an inspired pun on Genoa, the accepted birthplace of Columbus...