Word: salons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the London Daily Mirror said that Corinne had been the mistress of Otto Abetz, the Nazi boss of Paris, for three years. She is currently the first lady of Paris, said the Mirror, and her salon is a meeting place for high-ranking Nazis and highly placed French collaborationists. Corinne came by her preference for Germans honestly. Her father, Jean Luchaire, is a leader of the pro-Nazi National People's Party, editor of the Nazi-controlled Le Matin and Les Nouveaux Temps...
...animals were painted after trips to the Paris zoo. For years he worked away in a drab little studio above a plasterer's shop, taking his paintings very seriously, lavishing the utmost care on each geometrically exact landscape. When he started sending his pictures each year to the Salon des Independants to be hung alongside the works of painters like Redon (TIME, Aug. 25), Seurat and Signac, critics and fellow artists suppressed smiles...
This season more U.S. audiences than ever are hearing the piano expertly pounded by a man who once moved Manhattan Salon-Keeper Muriel Draper to expound pertly...
...Brown. A chubby cigar-smoker with bright eyes, he has worked around to hot music slowly. Ten years ago he founded the Chamber Music Society, which first got chamber music on the air. Lately he has been doing a series of programs on American composers, and WQXR has broadcast "salon swing." For the serious plunge into jazz (tentative date: January) he plans a single program series in which he will use recordings of classic and modern jazz
...program, called "Salon Swing." included subdued riffs by Benny Carter's Septet, tap dancing by an extraordinary young Negro named Baby Lawrence, songs by Maxine Sullivan, three of them to harpsichord accompaniment. The recital got chastely in the groove when the harpsichord, precisely pecked by willowy, red-haired Sylvia Marlowe, gave forth Pine-top's Boogie, rolling bass...