Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Edward R. Rosenberg. Mr. Rosenberg takes much pride in his house. He also takes pride in his daughter Suzanne who last year made a triumphant debut into Rochester society, and in his son, Edward Jr. who is learning his father's business. Mr. Rosenberg is president of Fashion Park Associates, Inc. Because of Rochestrian George Eastman many U. S. citizens when they think of Rochester think of Eastman kodaks, Eastman music. But fully-informed U. S. citizens know that Rochester is also a great clothing centre, that Mr. Rosenberg is one of Rochester's leading clothesmen...
Sixty years ago Clothesman Rosenberg's father Herman founded the business which is now Fashion Park. At the same time one Nathan Stein founded another Rochester wholesale tailoring business which became Stein-Bloch, Inc. Together they grew, prospered. In time, so excellent became their clothes that retailers saw advantage in breaking the custom which demanded that a suit bear only the retailer's label. Thereafter the name Stein-Bloch or Fashion Park appeared with the retailer's name on the inside breast pocket of many a U. S. citizen's suit. Prominent among retailers to adopt...
Last February's event was the merger of Weber & Heilbroner, Fashion Park, Inc., and Stein-Bloch, Inc., into a new company called Fashion Park Associates. Rochester's Rosenberg is President. Weber & Heilbroners Lewis M. Weiller is chairman. The five groups of clothes which Fashion Park Associates will put out are Tailored at Fashion Park, Stein-Bloch, Charter House, High Gate, Tailor Guild. Thirty-two Holly controlled stores will sell them. The net incomes of the three now merged Companies last year totalled...
Like a great mausoleum the Metropolitan Museum of Art over an acre of Central Park in Manhattan, facing houses of the rich on Fifth Avenue. Inside are many tombs-tombs of Egyptian Pharaohs, of exalted bric-a-brac, of Art. In the art tombs are laid away examples of the work of the great painters and sculp- tors of other times. There are Rubenses, Rembrandts,* Rodins, Titians, Tintorettos, Tiepolos, scores of time-proven mediocrities, one Botticelli. Progressive artists throughout the East have long given up hope for modernity in the Metropolitan. Few of them ever visit its vaults. Scathingly they...
Kahn & Eckstein. Otto Hermann Kahn, prime patron of Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera, visited Louis Eckstein, prime patron of Chicago's summer "opera house in the woods" (Ravinia Park). Together they listened to La Rondine...