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Floor Shows. Closed is Smart Showman Billy Rose's famed Casa Manana, but sparkling with the brightest floor show in town is his Diamond Horseshoe. In a room decked out with expertly hideous. Mauve Decade decor, on a tiny stage above a tremendous bar, the Diamond...
...three absolutely last-word fashionables-Musician Erik Satie, Poet Jean ("Birdcatcher") Cocteau and Ballet Impresario Sergei Diaghilev-spirited Picasso out of the dumps and off to Italy to paint decor for a ballet, Parade. It has never been publicly known that Picasso not only did the cubist decor for this extravaganza but rewrote Cocteau's book. In Rome he fell in love with a minor member of the Diaghilev ballet, Olga Koklova, and found himself faced with the unusual demand for a Russian-Orthodox Church marriage. In 1918 the marriage took place in Paris, and the Picassos moved into...
...tiptoe for the U. S. publication of his Scrapbook.) ± Sure to grace drawing rooms wherever there are bright young things, this rococo collection displays not only smart photographs of Britain's Brightest, from Poet W. H. Auden to Princess Natalie Paley, but gifted sketches of stage decor and costumes, needlepointed notes on cinema stars, which prove that Jean Cocteau was right when he called Beaton "Malice in Wonderland...
...famed Hapsburg restaurant, whose walls he covered with his own paintings. The author of two charming children's books (Hansi, The Golden Basket], illustrated, as is this one, by himself, he has written and drawn for Vogue, Story, Harper's Bazaar, FORTUNE, designed the stage decor for Noah, decorated the studio of Jascha Heifetz. He is now reported "somewhere in Ecuador on horseback...
...extremely rough diamond goes to Mrs. Lewis, a onetime Iowa schoolmarm. Like the wife and scion of any prosperous businessman, Mrs. Lewis and her only son John L. Jr. were last week on their way to Europe for a summer vacation. About on a par with the decor of a successful mine superintendent's home is that of John L. Lewis' neat colonial house in Alexandria, Va. There in his lovely garden he now receives the flower of legislative society. Perhaps the only mannerism which still betrays his early career as a mine mule-skinner is his habit...