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Watching her final rehearsal is Roberto Riva, Cornelia's boyfriend of a year. Riva, 42, is a dapper real estate speculator whose Italian parents raised him in Peru. I think she is great, fantastic," Riva says, snapping photo after photo of Cornelia in her silver jacket and leather pants. 'Very fantastic. We have a vanguard, you enow...
...hold them up, but silk stockings were 78?. In pre-diet conscious America, there were 2-lb. fruitcakes selling for 49?, and 4 Ibs. of mixed nuts cost 79?. A man's cotton-broadcloth shirt sold for $1.69, and a wool sweater for $1.95. For women, black leather oxfords cost $1.98, and a one-quarter carat diamond set in 18-karat white gold was priced...
With the turn of the century came a new list of modern trinkets for the Harvard man who had everything. A 1908 Rambler Roadster topped the list at $2250.00--perfect for that spin around the park. The vehicle contained all the latest technological advances, including a rumble seat and leather interior. Serious recreation seekers could reach Bermuda in only 45 hours, aboard the new twin screw S. S. Bermudia. And to take home to the family, the 1908 Harvard Yearbook bound in Crimson and lettered in Gold sold for one dollar...
...opening of the Dyansen show, Erté was dressed in a black-leather dinner jacket with cobraskin lapels. Around his neck he wore his mother's gold lorgnette and a heavy gold watch chain that had belonged to his grandfather, an admiral like his father. He stood beside his old toreador outfit, which was on display, his pale blue eyes alight with reminiscences of his grand entrance at the 1926 ball. He remarked proudly that he could still fit into the costume, flower-lined cape and all. Clearly, Erté would like nothing better in his 90th year than...
Drawing on materials at hand, doll-makers of the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries fashioned humble toys from wood scraps, nuts, cornhusks, leather, even wishbones and wax. Wendy Lavitt has culled choice examples in American Folk Dolls (Knopf; 133 pages; $14.95 paperback) from museum and private collections, including her own. Among the finds: a simple cloth child in a beautifully detailed gown, the product of someone's exquisite needlework; an Indian doll caught between two cultures, dressed in buckskin, but with a nun's veil; Eskimos in sealskin, their curved ivory faces true to tribal doll convention...