Word: fontainebleau
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Grey-haired Mrs. Ruth Ericksen is the owner (with her husband) and the dominant personality of historic Fontainebleau Inn, near Odessa, N.Y. Ericksenian is the table she sets. Ericksenian the way she describes it. For instance...
...dream of lamb chops! . . . They rollop up and down in front of Fontainebleau, parading huge signs: 'Ruth Ericksen is unfair to lamb chops! We are young, tender and juicy. . . . Moreover, we are modest, we wear frills down to our ankles and that is more than SHE does on some of these Saturday nights-yeah...
...hostess of Fontainebleau decided she needed some big-league help. A constant reader of the New York Herald Tribune's conservative Columnist Mark Sullivan, she wrote to him, emitting an Ericksenian cry of distress. When Mrs. Roosevelt arrived at Fontainebleau, wearing flame-colored chiffon, a necklace of sharks' teeth, great was her surprise to encounter Mr. Sullivan, in white tie & tails...
France's Third Republic was always glad to honor les amis de France. After World War I's Armistice, with a gracious Gallic gesture, France established in the famed old Palace of Fontainebleau near Paris the only school ever created by one nation for the exclusive benefit of another. There U. S. artists and musicians have studied under first-rate Frenchmen each summer since; in off hours could relax in the Forest of Fontainebleau's shady green aisles, feed ring-snouted carp in the pond by the palace, down drinks and French pastry at sidewalk cafes...
This summer the Germans are at Fontainebleau. Like other famed French artists, its teachers have not been heard from since France fell. But dark, decisive Painter Jean Despujols, longtime Fontainebleau instructor, who spent last winter portrait-painting in Texas, is in the U. S. Artist Despujols is a sound French academic painter who got off to the right start by winning the Grand Prix de Rome. His attractive blonde wife Millicent, a favorite model, is a Minneapolis girl whom he met when she studied the piano at Fontainebleau. Last spring Sculptress Lillie Harper organized her fellow Fontainebleau alumni, borrowed...