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...Europe, dominating the design of everything from the Paris Metro stations to ordinary knives and forks. The inevitable reaction against it was particularly violent, and the whole movement was dismissed as a rather ludicrous, if temporary, aberration. Artists like Alphonse Mucha, if remembered at all, seemed as dated as gaslight and their work as decadent as Oscar Wilde's sun flower. But lately art nouveau has been getting a new look. Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art had a big show of it three years ago, and in London last week Alphonse Mucha was once again...
...ever before told a detective story. And perhaps, if it is honesty that is to be considered, no one has. The detectives are good cops, and convincingly so. But the author can see no other kind; even his bribe takers are merely roguish leftovers from an era when gaslight softened the ugly look of graft. An artist as skilled as Dougherty should know that the boys in blue come in other shades...
Died. Patrick Hamilton, 58, British playwright of chatty chillers, including Rope (1929), first of many versions of the Loeb-Leopold case, and his biggest hit, Gaslight; in Sheringham, England...
Died. Pat Rooney II. 82. vaudeville's ageless song and dance man who bucked and winged from the gaslight era's Tony Pastor's to his last Broadway performance in Guys and Dolls; of a stroke; in Manhattan. Enchanted as a child by the hurdy-gurdies of Manhattan's Lower East Side, the leprechaun-sized (5 ft. 3 in.) hoofer endeared himself to three generations with his delivery of The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady, his tapping brogans keeping the beat for his gentle Irish brogue...
Last year this casbah of culture and whoopdedoo earned more than $3,000,000 for its investors, and property values have tripled over the last four years. A Gaslight Square Association has been set up, and Jay Landesman has been voted unofficial mayor of the quarter. Says Landesman grandly: "It means nothing. I'd rather be king...