Word: rococo
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...world has been through a period of hysterical excitements and stark realism," announced Musicomedy Dancer Ray Bolger, as quoted by rococo Litterateur Lucius Beebe. "Now it seems only natural that people should want a contrast to modernity and hysteria, and the placidity and ordered mannerisms of Victorianism supply that contrast...
...counselor to the management") saw to it that the Ritz tradition was maintained. Though Ritz had had an active hand in London's Carlton and a dozen other big European hotels, and had less actively sponsored the tri-continental Ritz-Carlton group, no other hotel ever achieved the rococo elegance of his Paris pride...
Hungarian-born Conductor Halasz, a slight and dynamic man who has been in the U.S. eleven years, was given a contract to produce three operas. He inherited a rococo hall, a shoe-string budget (seats are $2.40 top, one-third the Met's) and a free hand. Says he: "Where there is no money, there is no interference from pocketbooks. The only thing that can save us is ideas." At his first performance (Tosca), the guns of the firing squad failed to fire in the last act, and the hero had to drop dead without a bang. In Carmen...
...International Cigar Band Society, 75 strong, gathered in Brooklyn for a three-day meeting, noted mournfully that "cigar bands today are tame and unimaginative." Said President G. A. Greasby, of Milwaukee (who has collected 40,000 different bands): "We have hopes that the rococo will return when the new shipment from Holland arrives. Our only salvation lies abroad...
...year-old "Ex," owned by the City of Toronto, is worth $26,000,000 (in land, buildings and equipment), and always makes money. In 1940, the gross take was $813,554, the net profit $32,903. In its best previous year, 2,039,000 customers passed through its rococo Princes' Gate. This year, after a look at the opening-day crowd, Manager Elwood Hughes guessed that in its two weeks the "Ex" would be visited by close to 3,000,000 customers. That, he sighed happily, would keep 250 men and 14 trucks busy 24 hours a day, just...