Word: elsas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even when she works into the small hours of dawn, Mme. Landowska wakes at 8. Coffee and correspondence are brought to her bed by Denise Restout or Elsa Schunicke, who for years have served as adoring disciples, companions and helpers to "Mamusia" (Polish for mummy...
During her latest fashion show in Paris, Designer Elsa Schiaparelli watched her picket-thin mannequins parade her creations, then cried, "Stop the show. Where are the bosoms? Where are the hips?" To illustrate, she took a jacket from a model and tried it on herself. When it failed to close across madam's own well-developed bust, she said: "See what I mean? Designers keep forgetting that women are females, human beings with legs, bosoms, hips. I am sick of the cardboard silhouette. I am cutting out the frills, the whalebones, the stiff flounces, all that inhuman nonsense...
...reset the best of the gloomy old forms against fields of bright new color. The Met had a vivid new set, "dirt cheap" (about $15,000), and a first-class singing cast topped by Tenor Hans Hopf in his first Met performance of Lohengrin and Soprano Eleanor Steber as Elsa...
...Board Chairman George A. Sloan: "Tonight we are overwhelmed by the realization that we have seen you and heard you on this stage for the last time . . ." Cries of "No, no" went up. Sloan reeled off Flagstad's greatest roles from a commemorative silver cup: "Isolde . . . Briinnhilde . . . Elsa . . . Kundry . . . Fidelio . . . Alcestis...
Proust to Plato. Offstage, the Laughtons live a quietly busy life in a small (for Hollywood), eleven-room house that has little ground of its own but, happily, faces on 50 acres of a neighbor's orchards. Elsa works steadily at her non-paying job with Hollywood's Turnabout Theater (TIME, May 24, 1948), and shuttles between nightclub engagements in Manhattan and Los Angeles. Charles has rearranged their living room into a studio where he trains the dedicated and largely unknown young actors of the Charles Laughton Players. When he goes to bed, he surrounds himself with books...