Word: lavishly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Producer Florenz Ziegfeld is a reactionary at heart. In the face of a musicomedy renaissance, he has produced another melodious fable following a formula that has served for 25 years or more. The formula requires a lavish setting (anywhere outside the U. S.), one juvenile lead, one misunderstood ingenue, one comedian with straight man, a temptress, a torch singer (added since the War), a villain, and the more chorus girls the better...
...Yonkers." When Inquisitor Samuel Seabury (see p. 13) threatens the policemen with an investigation, they decide to conceal their opulence by financing a revue, The Rhinestones of 1932. High spot of this durbar, which must have cost Producer Sam H. Harris himself a good deal of money, is a lavish rhinestone Venetian scene, complete with half-a-dozen flights of rhinestone pigeons...
...with a view of providing the utmost in comfort and artistic arrangement, as well as providing ideal acoustic conditions for talking pictures. The outside is built in the modernistic style with graduated lines and sweeping length of contour, while the inside is furnished in a truly oriental manner, with lavish furnishings and chromium-plated fixtures...
...drawings of Caricaturist Covarrubias were gay and excitable footnotes in praise of the exotic. He had been impressed by the huge circular earrings affected by Balinese ladies, the costumes of dancing girls, their fans and lavish headgear. His line drawings, particularly one of two dancers called Legong, were graceful and more colorful than his paintings, which had the air of East Indian fashion plates. With pardonable bias, Muralist Diego Rivera, for whom Covarrubias once lugged water jugs in Mexico City, said: "Covarrubias has now reached the age at which a man's face occasionally becomes overcast and in which...
...name of Helen Lee Eames, step-daughter of Oilman Henry Latham Doherty, was widely publicized last year at the time of her lavish debut in Washington (TIME. Jan. 5, 1931). The N. W. Ayer & Son advertising agency sent out publicity stating that Miss Doherty had conceived and executed the idea of decorating automobiles with hand-painted silhouets and giving them away to friends. It was said she "enlisted the assistance of Mrs. Natalie Macdonald Hall, a New York artist, in the work of painting and decorating the cars." Last week Artist Hall sued Miss Eames's mother, Mrs. Grace...