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...last week sat and lounged all over exhibits and pushed them around with impunity. The visitors enjoyed it because they spent as much time on their rumps as on their feet. The museum did not mind because it was doing its best to boost modern furniture out of the fad stage...
...whole generation before the Surrealists made a fad of the subconscious, an affable, frail, dreamy little Frenchman was putting his most fantastic nightmares on paper. Even his tradition-busting contemporaries the Impressionists thought his work was queer. Up to the time of his death (1916) he sold his pictures (if at all) for as little as $15 apiece. Today he is a collectors' favorite, regarded by critics as one of the greatest painters of modern France. His name: Odilon Redon...
...Douglas Fairbanks No. 2 (Mary Pickford) and Mrs. Douglas Fairbanks No. 3 (Lady Sylvia Ashley) flew to New York together, along with Norma Shearer, whom Ronald Balcom has been escorting when he wasn't with Lady Ashley. ∙∙ Greta Garbo, who started the long-lived longhair fad, had her locks cut to within three inches of their life, dyed them greenish-gold (with an aquamarine rinse), and tucked them into a monkish halo. ∙∙ Hedy Lamarr also had her long mane shortened, but only for private showing. ∙∙ Baby-faced Simone Simon joined the rush...
...swing fad did, however, have more permanent effects than the Big Apple and the Suzie Q, in that it brought many people nearer a kind of music they hadn't understood before. The growth of popularity of improvised jazz, built around the individual self-expression of the musician, has been a direct result of the interest of people who looked behind the jump-jump and the jive, and the screeching horns and shimmying drummers, but it still has a long way to go. Writing in the Sunday Herald Tribune a couple of weeks ago, Benny Goodman hit the proverbial nail...
...Paris' famed Salon des Indépendents) offered artists with new ideas their one big chance. Many exhibitors at the early Independents shows later became famed figures in the U.S. art world. As the years went by, as modernism changed from a struggling revolutionary movement to a popular fad, the Society of Independents grew feebler. Last week's show, like many before it, caused hardly a critical ripple...