Word: salons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...makers: James ("Jimmy") Mont, 29, a slim, Manhattanized Turk. He was an unsuccessful interior decorator until in June, 1932, he got the idea of using fancy bars as a wedge to redecorate people's apartments. He would sell a bar that looked fine in his Modern Salon Co.'s Manhattan showroom but looked like a fair carrousel in the customer's apartment. Then Mont would redecorate the room to match the bar, the whole apartment to match the room. He made more ornate bars, got bigger decorating jobs. He puts all his profits back into the business...
...Empress Elizabeth (Mrs. Vincent Astor) to pay his respects to Lawyer Paul Drennan Cravath, the Metropolitan's big old board chairman, who was not in costume but stayed up to the very end. Upstairs the sedate refreshment room had been transformed into a beer garden with a gambling salon leading off it. Next winter in that refreshment room, grey-haired, flat-faced Emil Katz will go on serving sandwiches and coffee as he has done since the days when his idol, Anton Seidl, was conducting at the Metropolitan. Even with the $300,000 raised, the season will be shorter...
Mabel Ganson Evans Dodge Sterne Luhan is one of those U. S. women who is conscious of having exerted a considerable influence, not counting her husbands. During her second marriage (to Edwin Dodge, Boston architect) her salon in Florence was famed throughout Europe. "Everybody" in the art world visited her, from Gertrude Stein to Eleonora Duse. In Manhattan she was a hospitable hostess to Lincoln Steffens, the late John Reed, Walter Lippmann, Emma Goldman, Carl Van Vechten, Robert Edmond Jones. She was largely responsible for the art exhibition which featured the famed cubist A Nude Descending the Staircase. Her fourth...
...little fellow (half an inch too short for military service), with a mincing manner and a domelike forehead. He abhorred Bohemianism, was always perfectly frank in his love of rich food, fine clothes, beautiful women. His career took him first to Florence, then London, then Paris. Ever since the Salon of 1875 his steady succession of portraits and mistresses had been gaining fame but it was not until the turn of the Century that Boldini entered his Grand Period. He was preeminently the artist of the Edwardian era, of the pompadour, the champagne supper and the ribbon-trimmed chemise...
...Jean-Baptiste Soitout, designed during the despotic provisional government of 1848. At that time France's ministry of the interior organized a competition for a figure to represent the Republic. Ten were submitted and Sculptor Soitout's winning bust was exhibited with much éclat in the Salon of 1850. There was some talk of ordering replicas for public buildings, but while the discussion was still going on pale Louis Napoléon abruptly ended the Second Republic with his famed whiff of grapeshot. Soitout's Marianne was hustled away to an attic. There she stayed...