Word: salvador
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...arrived in a unique situation. In quick succession Hungary and Albania resigned. The two countries acted not because of their own desires, but to suit the Axis powers. Last week Peru also resigned following the lead in recent years of Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Paraguay, El Salvador, Venezuela...
...first-rate importation form Mars is the Classical Club's production of the Birds of Aristophanes. A combination of the imagination of Jules Verne and Salvador Dali could not have concocted such a triumph of weird and otherworldly wildness as kicked up the dust in Sanders Theatre last night. Fantastic masks, brilliant costumes, lighting of all colors of the rainbow,--it's impossible to describe, but the nearest thing to it is Barnum and Bailey at their best, minus the elephants...
...Manhattan last week, having had as much advance publicity as Ringling Bros., Salvador Dali's new exhibition drew crowds that made the swank Julien Levy Gallery surge and prattle like the Normandie at sailing time. In the first five days sales totaled five drawings ($300-$800) and 14 paintings...
Came real but prosaic day and Bonwit Teller resumed its ladies garment business. Among its customers appeared ladies who thought the Dali windows "extreme," told the management so. By noon Salvador Dali's sleeping mannequin had been replaced by a seated figure, his bather replaced by a glamor dummy in a tailored suit. No one cared, until late in the afternoon Artist Dali strolled by and saw the havoc that had been made of his havoc-making Freudian designs...
Into the store to the company lawyer rocketed Salvador Dali, sizzling in Spanish and French. Next thing Bonwit's knew the Surrealissimo was in the window with the bathtub. "Oomph" went the tub as he jerked it from the moorings. "Crash" went Bonwit Teller's beautiful plate-glass window as the small struggling artist and his tub went through it and lit "bang" on the sidewalk...