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Word: elsa (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Schiaparelli. "Of course we don't want pants," cried Elsa Schiaparelli in a speech before Manhattan's Fashion Group last year. "Men are already ugly enough in them without having women wear them." But Mme Schiaparelli gave women practically everything else, including dresses made of cellophane and rubber, collars of china, gadgets designed from harness. One of her best textile designs grew out of some plaster and netting she picked up in a rubbish pile. In her crusade for sharp, dramatic line ("skyscraper silhouet") Mme Schiaparelli persecutes the button with morbid zeal, has substituted all manner of gadgets in place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Haute Couture | 8/13/1934 | See Source »

...device of a mask is used to represent the rational self, the skeptic half, of John Loving. In the first three acts John discusses and debates the ending of his autobiographical novel with his dual self, with his uncle, a priest, and with his wife, Elsa. During his matrimonial happiness, John had once been faithless in a moment of pity for an abused woman. The dramatic point lies in the question of whether his wife shall be told of the incident in the end of the novel and the sinner forgiven. The rational self calls such a solution sentimental...

Author: By G. F. M., | Title: CRIMSON BOOKSHELF | 3/6/1934 | See Source »

Mackerel Skies (by John Haggart; George Bushar and John Tuerk, producers). What has happened before the play begins: Elsa (Violet Kemble Cooper), hot-blooded Austrian noblewoman, marries a prince, has a daughter (Carol Stone) by a peasant (Tom Powers), exhausts the prince's fortune in pursuit of a singing career, deserts prince & peasant to marry a Manhattan broker, fails dismally as a diva. What happens during the play: Grown to adolescence, the daughter displays a voice inherited not from her noble mother but from her peasant father who reappears as a wheat tycoon to oppose Elsa's jealous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Feb. 5, 1934 | 2/5/1934 | See Source »

...both his parents, he had lost his faith in God. Now he has begun to lose his faith in his own love for his wife because one of her friends (Ilka Chase) has seduced him. When John Loving starts to tell the story of his projected novel to Elsa Loving and his uncle, Father Baird (Robert Loraine), his lower nature proposes a bitter conclusion, in which the hero's wife dies of pneumonia. Elsa Loving, quick at deductions, goes for a walk in the rain but when she catches pneumonia she does not die. Playwright O'Neill calls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jan. 15, 1934 | 1/15/1934 | See Source »

...individual rhythm, his words made a sound to the eyes, most people's do not") he introduced Ernest Hemingway to her. Back in the U. S., he wrote for the New Yorker, until last year was its book reviewer. Meantime he had married Sculptress Elsa Kirpal, written a best-seller (The Outlaw Years), and begun to build with his own hands his own house near Brewster. N. Y. Tall, redhaired, slow moving, he likes to read dictionaries and trade journals, spends whole afternoons throwing an ice-pick at a target on a barn door...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: FICTION | 12/18/1933 | See Source »

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