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...ball for the benefit of Polish refugees, Princess Artchil Gourielli-Tchkonia, better known as Cosmetics Queen Helena Rubinstein, was joined by her old friend and near neighbor on Manhattan's Park Avenue, Pianist Artur Rubinstein. After the ball was over, Helena, ageless but eightyish, commented on her distant cousin: "I told his wife, 'The older he gets, the better he gets.' " What did she and Rubinstein, 72 this week, talk about? "A lot of nonsense...
...girls in high heels clicking along the stage rim, nearly stepping on the ring-siders' elbows. After the updated burlesque comedians, the rubber-legged clown, the croaky grand-opera sextet, the long evening ends with a flourish-figure skaters on a rink the size of the late Serge Rubinstein's bed. Like New York night life itself, all this looks better from a distance. From the back of the huge room, the show seems gay and sexy, but when seen close up, the picture dissolves into the depressing details-forced smiles, smudged and sweating faces, bruises under torn...
...fiddle." But when he was 24, he accompanied Tenor John Coates, became fascinated by the challenge of fitting music to text, and soon decided that accompanists "have an infinitely richer life than the soloist." Today he adds: "Even if I had the technique and virtuosity of Horowitz or Rubinstein, I would prefer to do what I am doing...
Death Revealed. Ida Rubinstein, 75, once-famed ballet dancer; on Sept. 20, of a heart attack; in Vence on the French Riviera. Born in St. Petersburg (now Leningrad), she started scantily in a quickly banned version of Salome, rapidly went on to score in a variety of roles that highlighted her somnolent beauty and miming talents, rather than dancing skill, led her own companies in performing works commissioned from Ravel (Boléro), Debussy Stravinsky. She died in seclusion in the hillside village that had been her home for two decades...
...have long insisted that what God and good breeding stock bestow, women had best leave alone.* At long last, British women discovered that they knew better, suddenly recognized what a difference a little lipstick can make. To meet the booming demand for cosmetics, U.S. companies such as Helena Rubinstein, Elizabeth Arden and Revlon have moved in alongside such traditional powder-and-scent houses as Atkinson, Goya and Yardley to take aim on a $300 million-a-year business. Although one-quarter of British women still use neither powder nor lipstick, eye shadow sales have jumped 36% in the past year...