Word: savoyism
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When London's swank Savoy got into trouble in the 1890s (its stock slumped from ?5 to a few shillings), the management asked the partners for help. By lavish spending on gaudy entertainment (for one party, they flooded the main dining room, served dinner on gondolas to the music of imported Venetian gondoliers), they boomed the value of the stock to ?20 a share in three years. This and other triumphs prompted Ritz's millionaire friends to back his fondest dream-a hotel of his own in Paris, which would be "the summum of elegance." Ritz himself...
Steve Connolly of the Savoy is giving Higgenbotham time off from the Boston music place in order to encourage a jazz revival at Harvard. Should Sunday's concert indicate a real College following for such entertainment, Leverett will plan similar programs next year...
...return paragons of virtue, "Extremely modest (so we're told), Demurely coy--divinely cold." They bring with them six "flowers of progress," Englishmen representing their country's rise to perfection, and including a company promoter and a county council member. The plot is simpler than that of any other Savoy opera, and since the attacked hypocrisy is still present, the work is a lot timelier than the others...
...London's Savoy Hotel, John Steinbeck overheard a Chicago Tribune man snort: "Capa, you have absolutely no integrity!" That wartime remark, says Steinbeck, "intrigued me-I was fascinated that anybody could get so low that a Chicago Tribune man could say such a thing. I investigated Capa, and I found out it was perfectly true." Photographer Robert Capa and Author Steinbeck became great friends...
...inevitable that there should be changes among the D'Oyly Carters: new faces; new but in no way newfangled scenery; an orchestra that seemed a bit lacking in volume and verve. But for the most part things remained wonderfully unchanged: this highborn troupe whose ancestors ushered half the Savoy operas into the world has long subdued individual talent to group traditions. At moments their work might seem more traditional than talented; but the D'Oyly Carters remained the most stylish and polished of G. & S. performers, the most grandly operatic as they trilled, the most augustly pompous...