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American Dream. In the promotion of top American art Alfred Stieglitz was the great pioneer, five decades ago. If Stieglitz has an heir it is Edith Gregor Halpert, whose Downtown Gallery (originally downtown but now located on East 51st Street) opened in 1926 with three artists that Stieglitz had turned over to her: John Marin, Charles Demuth, and Stieglitz' wife, Georgia O'Keeffe. In addition to the works of these three, Dealer Halpert also sells the paintings of the late Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Arthur Dove and Max Weber. Other artists on this formidable roster: Ben Shahn, Abraham Rattner, Charles...
Funeral services for Edith Morse Johnson '96 were held yesterday in Appleton Chapel...
...Married. Edith Piaf, 47, thimble-sized (4 ft. 10 in.) French songbird, frequently in and out of the hospital; and tousled Theo Sarapo (real name: Theophrasis Lambourskis), 23. a former hairdresser now her singing protege, in a ceremony that verged on riot when 2.000 frenzied fans tried to break through police lines for a ringside view; she for the second time; in Paris...
...like to forget her com pletely." "If you ask me if I have had a happy life, I must say no. I have had an extremely unhappy life." Withal, the unkind years have merely honed the battle-ax wit of England's oddball poetess Dame Edith Sitwell, who, upon turning 75, looked ahead to her official birthday celebration at London's Festival Hall next month. There, she insists, she will appear baroquely bedecked in a red velvet gown, black-and-gold turban and massive gold necklace. She then manned the ramparts to defend her medieval eccentricities. "I think...
Shoot the Piano Player. Charles Aznavour is the male Edith Piaf of France. Like Piaf, he is slight, darkly sad-eyed, and sings and looks as if he were in mourning for his life. In this movie, Aznavour sings nary a note. He plays Charlie Koller, a shy honky-tonk piano tinkler in a demimonde bistro, who has a great deal to be mournful about...