Word: salons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when they try to cover the misfortune, which they figure is best done by earthing old Harry on top of the hill, are inevitable. The script Hitchcock uses is in the manner of a very garrulous Noel Coward, lacking a great deal of the sponteneity and verve which make salon situation humor tolerable. Funny verbal exchanges might have saved the endless repetition of burying Harry, digging him up, and then burying him again. Poor cold Harry must not have been amused...
...enough. Soon Soprano Alma Gluck, Mrs. William Randolph Hearst Sr. and other fashionable ladies were standing patiently for fittings in the mingled aroma of chop suey and lox. In 1919, after a quarrel, Hattie bought out her partner, and later moved to the present, world-famed Carnegie salon on Manhattan's East 49th Street. The same year, she made her first trip to Paris (through the years she rolled up a total of nearly 100 trips abroad...
...Manhattan, Hattie stirred up the natives with equal success. Wealthy women and celebrities flocked to her salon (among her clientele: Gertrude Lawrence, Clare Boothe Luce, Barbara Hutton, the Duchess of Windsor, Joan Crawford). Although several famed designers learned their craft in her workrooms, Hattie was never a designer in the strict sense. Her talent was for blue-penciling gowns, like an editor, and her critical decisions ("No, no, that sleeve is out I") were almost always right. The Carnegie foundation for a wardrobe-the "little Carnegie suit" became a basic garment for well-dressed women, and was later translated...
Pierre Monteux and the boys in the band will entertain in the main salon at Symphony Hall. Freed, Brahms, D'Indy, Straus. No dancing. Friday, 2:15 p.m.; Saturday...
Naked Paint. When Manet sent his picture to the Salon, the model's nakedness was what seemed to shock the public. But the nakedness of the painting itself was what shocked Manet's fellow artists. Instead of presenting a suitably posed, blurred and idealized nude to the public gaze, Manet presented something like truth in the form of a naked French girl, nakedly translated into so many square inches of paint on canvas. As a straight representation of a scene. Olympia is obvious and commonplace. But as a composition in form and color, it is a masterpiece. With...