Word: parisian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...barely visible through the nightclub smoke, with an occasional sentimental number (La Vie en Rose), but in reality a siren of disillusion, a kind of existentialist among chanteuses. But Patachou is almost a rural reactionary, who goes back to a sturdy, bucolic France that persists beneath the phony Parisian sparkle...
...after due reflection: "To find something similar to Edith Piaf's Parisian material but in the American idiom, a song with a story about people." When she finds a song she likes, she works on it like an actor boning up on a script. "A song deals with a person," she tells herself. "I have to get an image of that person and convey that image to everyone else." Songstress Sanders also tries for "a sort of sexiness which accepts sex without having to emphasize...
...bullfight, Hollywood Gossipist Hedda Hopper, getting her first taste of a real Spanish corrida, was carried away by the excitement of it all when the torero, Chicuelo, toured the arena and was showered by a complimentary cascade of hats, cigars and flowers. Hedda whipped off her own ostrich-feather, Parisian cartwheel hat (by Jacques Path) and skimmed it into the bull ring. "I know I threw away a $100 hat," she said, "but I certainly got more than one thousand dollars worth of thrills...
Married. Thomas Dubois Hormel, 23, son of Meatpacker Jay Catherwood (Spam) Hormel, and an art student at Palos Verdes College in Rolling Hills, Calif.; and Simone Mostovoy, 20, onetime Parisian ballerina with the Roland Pettit Ballet; in Las Vegas...
Ryan, with a six-man staff, set up administrative headquarters in the Mayflower Hotel. An army of gardeners dug up rosebushes, chrysanthemums and shrubbery at the Presbreys' spacious place off Connecticut Avenue, and moved them back five feet to make room for a Parisian street scene, complete with sidewalks and sidewalk cafes. Carpenters built a 30-by-50-ft. dance floor over the lawn, covered it with a sideshow tent, which was decorated as and called the Moulin Rouge. Pressrooms, male and female, were set up with tickers and telephones...