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Castanets commanding and enticing, sleek black gowns, ruffled white gowns, gowns with all the colors of a peacock's tail-with these to Manhattan last week returned Dancer Argentina (real name: Antonia Merce) who again will tour as far as the Pacific Coast, give some 50 recitals. At the end of last season Argentina underwent an appendectomy, a proceeding dangerous for a dancer none too young. Special care was taken not to cut a muscle and she is just as agile as before. Her great pride this year is the little red ribbon which she wears on every coat...
...head editor of the Literary Guild, husband to able Literary Editrix Irita Van Doren of the New York Herald Tribune. Author Van Doren has always liked Swift, has been trying for years to find time to do a book about him. Other books: The Life of Thomas Love Peacock, The American Novel, The Roving Critic, Many Minds, James Branch Cabell...
...Peacock Throne." The only object of Persian art at all familiar to average occidentals is the famed throne upon which sit Persia's Shahs. And this came from India, not Persia. Built in the reign of Shah Jahan (1627-58) in India's "golden age of architecture," it appeared in Persia after the sack of Delhi by Nadir Shah in 1738. Designer is thought to have been Ustad Isa, reputed creator of the Taj Mahal. Before it was stripped of most of its appurtenances, silver steps led up to the throne proper, a peacock tail canopy overspread...
Edward Robert Peacock, director Baring Brothers...
...Salon of the National Society of Fine Arts and the Society of French Artists-prime event of the French art year, real Parisians as well as gaping tourists lined up in open admiration before the portrait of a pretty, shapely young woman in a bright red gown against a peacock-blue background-Camilla Loyall Ashe Sewall Edge, wife of the U. S. Ambassador, by Portraitist Edward Everett...