Word: salons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Four Dogs. At Lady Molly's is largely centered on the raffish salon of Lady Molly Jeavons, who was born an Ardglass (a family "hopelessly insolvent since the Land Act"), was once married to a peer, but has come down to being the wife of the dim, unemployable Jeavons ("He was something left over from the war"). One could meet "absolutely anybody" at Lady Molly's, including her cats, her "four principal dogs," and her monkey called Maisky (after the Soviet ambassador). "Not long ago Lord Amesbury looked in on his way to a Court ball, wearing knee...
...group had to battle harder for recognition than the French impressionists, who eventually came to dominate the art of the Western world. Bucking the ornate, sentimental tastes of most Frenchmen in the second half of the 19th century, they were ruthlessly held down by entrenched academicians who controlled the Salon exhibitions. Many of them were grizzled veterans before they began to pay their way with their paintings. When impressionist painting suddenly swept into fashion at the turn of the century, their prices began a rocket ascent that is still going strong. Last week, with France's President...
...their ostracism from the Beaux-Arts' controlled annual Salon exhibition (the art mart of its day), the impressionists were men of their age. "Their poverty irked them especially," Bazin points out, "because it prevented their living that normal life, that stable existence, to which they aspired. It was quite different with Gauguin and Van Gogh. It was these two lunatics who started the rupture between the artist and society. To the 20th century they were the models for geniuses beyond the law, possessed by superhuman power, which . . . laid them...
Elizabeth Arden studied to be a nurse, entered the cosmetics business because, she says, she wanted to make women beautiful as well as healthy. Before opening her own beauty salon in 1910, she spent an apprenticeship as secretary in a Fifth Avenue beauty shop. Today she grosses an estimated $15 million yearly, owns a topflight racing stable (Maine Chance). The carefully preserved beauty queens are the best ads for their own products: Rubinstein is in her 80s, Arden in her 70s-and their exact ages are as jealously guarded as their cosmetic secrets. Says an aide: "We never talk...
Some 74,000 women a year are soothed, massaged and coifed in Madame Rubinstein's Manhattan salon, headquarters of her three-continent chain. A woman who wants to spend an entire day at the salon can spend up to $120 for a series of treatments that would make a siren out of a Westchester matron. First, she is told to change into a black leotard, given paper slippers and a white robe to wear. Her medical history is solemnly taken ("Any operations? How many children?"). After doing exercises in front of a mirror under direction of a Ph.D. from...