Word: lacing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...courtiers, there were miniatures of a lovesick youth leaning against a tree, entangled in roses; a grave young man fingering a locket against a background of flames. Their flesh tones had faded, but they still shone with immaculate drawing, clean, jewel-like color, and a fine use of lace and ornament to produce a sharp, flat pattern...
Fiesta (MGM) is tacked together out of Technicolor, leftover story formulas and shopworn lace, to shelter three possible excuses for a picture: music, dancing and bullfighting. The bullring sequences get along without picadors or coups de grace, and apparently the same old company bull is photographed again & again. More stirring is Johnny (Body & Soul) Green's rearrangement of Aaron Copland's El Salon Mexico. Bits of the dancing (by Mexican Star Ricardo Montalban and Cyd Charisse) are more tense and percussive than the brand generally seen north of the border...
...Factory. Isaac was born in Russia. But he did not go in lace and patent leather to one of Russia's prodigy factories, then on to famed Leopold Auer in St. Petersburg, like Violinists Heifetz and Elman. The Stern family settled in San Francisco before Isaac's parents decided to make a violinist of him. Says Isaac: "They took me to concerts but I did not come back and cry for a violin, nor did I pick up a fiddle and play from memory every note I'd heard at the concert. The idea of a career...
...member of the Tlingit Tribe and renamed him Kitchnahshch (meaning unknown to Governor Gruening). He shipped in dozens of watercolors by WPA artists to brighten the buff walls of the big, old-fashioned governor's mansion, picked a hot desert scene with violet clouds to hang beside his lace-canopied, four-poster...
Last week, Pierino walked briskly on to the stage of Paris' Palais de Chaillot, dressed in a Little Lord Fauntleroyish black velvet jacket, white lace collar, and short pants. The podium had been built up so nine-year-old Pierino could see all of the 70 musicians of the Association des Concerts Lamoureux. He conducted Schubert's Unfinished without a score, and handled it decisively. He was less certain in Beethoven's Fifth-the brasses got away from him in the finale. But he did well enough to touch off 20 minutes of cheers. Pierino took seven...