Word: salons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Opera Comique, left Paris for Brussels "to become the wife of the great Maeterlinck." Wearing on her forehead a blue diamond which she said was a symbol of happiness, Mme. Leblanc met Maeterlinck at a supper party, lived with him for more than 20 years, and maintained a brilliant salon in Paris frequented by Anatole France, Debussy, Rodin, Mallarme, many another famed artist. She came to the U.S. in 1912, toured in Pelleas and Melisande, was perhaps more famed for her clothes than for her soprano voice, was most famed for the romantic legend of her role as "Mme. Maeterlinck...
...already grabbed the best rooms. The Olympic's management had just redecorated its penthouse apartment and named it the Royal Suite, in the hope that the Duke of Windsor, Canada-bound might be the first occupant. The pent house contains seven bedrooms, five bathrooms, reception hall, bar, library, salon, dining room, recreation room, kitchen, service pantry and a terrace sprouting green grass, flowers and shrubs. By the time President Green arrived, Mr. Tobin and his party of eleven teamster officials (four with wives) were bouncing on the beds intended for the Duke and Duchess...
When Hermann Göring, who loves nice things and is a great hand at Plünderpraxis, visited Athens in 1935, Mayor Cotzias showed him the town. One of the sights included the National Archeological Museum. For more than an hour, Göring stayed in the Salon of Mycenaean Antiquities, pop-eyed and well-nigh drooling over the collection of golden swords, daggers, goblets, vases, collars, crematory urns and other priceless objects of pre-Homeric craftsmanship. The next year His Honor visited Berlin and saw Göring, who immediately said: "How's the Mycenaean collection...
...first program, Salon Swing, Miss Crane put an obscure pianist, a vocal quintet, a small hot band-Negroes all. The pianist, light-fingered Kentuckian Herman Chittison, won fame in Europe during the past decade, leading bands and swinging Chopin and Schubert at the. keyboard. It took Louise Crane seven months to track him down in Manhattan. The five vocalists chose an appalling name for their collective debut: the Sophistichords. But they deftly turned English and European songs inside out, kidded the pants off the clown's teary air from Pagliacci. The band of the evening, John Kirby...
...more than any other U.S. organization to break the stodgy, stale tobacco-juice-landscape and frock-coat-portrait traditions that had clung to U.S. art since the late 19th Century. In those Academy-ridden days, the Indépendents' free-for-all (patterned after Paris' famed Salon des Indépendents) offered artists with new ideas their one big chance. Many exhibitors at the early Independents shows later became famed figures in the U.S. art world. As the years went by, as modernism changed from a struggling revolutionary movement to a popular fad, the Society of Independents grew...