Word: garret
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...aging creator: 1) went to a big party at Gossipist Hedda Hopper's, 2) talked like a native. "The movies are no more commercial," declared Lewis, "than any other form of art. . . . There's no reason to suppose that a poor man starving in a garret writes better than a rich man living in a mansion. . . . Human beings are 100% commercial as hell. . . . Rembrandt was one of the most commercial bastards that ever lived...
...time hero & heroine begin to wriggle out of the underworld's clutches, the unwinding plot is too glib and fast to follow. So are the sociological overtones of the young couple's last-reel decision to starve in an artist's garret rather than gorge in a butler's pantry...
Died. John Logic Baird, 58, a canny Scot who turned an uncanny trick in 1924 when he switched on a homemade gadget (set up on a washstand in a garret over a flower shop), a moment later saw the first picture ever televised flicker on a screen two yards away; after influenza; in Bexhill, Sussex...
...lunches. But for the first performance of La Bohème, young (28), bristle-haired Conductor Arturo Toscanini ordered the house lights turned out. Further, he instructed his Mimi (Soprano Cesira Ferrani) to stay in character once she started to succumb to consumption in Rodolfo's drafty garret in Act IV; there would be no rolling around in the creaky bed for encores...
...Bedlam's Gate. Elizabeth's story: at the gate of Bedlam two men had stolen her money and given her a blow on the head that sent her into a fit. She had been subject to fits since a garret ceiling fell on her head in childhood. "When I came out of my fit," she said, "I found myself between the two men in a roadway. . . . About half an hour later we came to a house. There I saw an old woman and two young ones. The old woman took me by the hand and asked...