Word: decorous
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...qualities which make a smart Hollywood restaurant click are as fragile as the promise in a starlet's eye. The essentials for success-more subtle than LaRue's Royal Squab Diable ($2.25) and the decor which Hollywoodians describe as "chichi like crazy"-are Billy Wilkerson's secret. Smart as LaRue may be, it is less smart than its proprietor...
...drive his lovely young wife insane. Hollywood's husband is not quite so icily satanic, his wife not excruciatingly demoralized, as in the original. But as acted by Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer and directed by George Cukor, Hollywood's ace manipulator of emotional actresses and lacy decor (Camille), Gaslight is still a fierce, hair-raising, handsome piece of psychological horror...
...stroke; in Manhattan. Born near Vienna, the solemn prodigy with the wire-grey pompadour clicked in his first stage role (1893), soon became Berlin's outstanding director. Once praised for the intimate drama, at his Salzburg Festivals (begun in 1920) he out-dreamed a Barnum with his decor, employed huge casts and invited huge guest lists to his Castle Leopoldskron. Celebrated in the U.S. for The Miracle (1924), Jewish Max Reinhardt was reduced to Paris poverty in the early days of Nazidom, made a Hollywood comeback in 1935 with his first & only movie, the $1,300,000 A Midsummer...
...worth of new costumes. It had acquired a new top boss-Robert Ringling, who after a rumored family wrangle succeeded his cousin John Ringling North-and a new attitude. Gone were the Stravinsky ballet music, the Balanchine choreography, the blue tanbark and all the rest of the modernistic decor which had raised complaints and possibly cut the profits. Once again everything was traditional, absurd and gaudy as a gypsy's jewels...
Vogue ran far ahead of this chill and modest ambition. Throughout the '20s and '30s, in its pages Nast decided what made fashion-sense in the welter of Parisian, New York and Hollywood ideas, about everything from decor to dogs. The Dest-dressed women in all U.S. towns were Vogue subscribers; stores fought to listed as outlets for goods advertised in Vogue, and thus the Nast judgments set patterns far beyond Vogue's own cirulation of a few hundred thousand. To his own women-readers Nast brought the excitement of modern art, from Seurat to Modigliani...