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Last week Manhattan critics and socialites could see, at the Marie Harriman Gallery, Suzanne & Friend (always in 1900 costumes) boating sentimentally on the Seine; Suzanne, as a barmaid, serving Friend, as a silk-hatted rounder; Suzanne & Friend as a couple of spangled circus riders; Suzanne crossing the Place de la Concorde in a very becoming grey veil; Suzanne as a ballet dancer; Suzanne in a striped jacket (see cut); Suzanne as two ballet dancers, peeking through the curtain...
...quotation was taken from Henry George's Standard, which varied somewhat from the ordinary press versions. There was nothing derogatory to the dignity of any man, even the Pope of Rome, in appearing 50 years ago in a high silk hat, vulgarly called a "stovepipe" or a "plug." It was the universally accepted insignia of respectability and gentlemanliness. And as to his "walking down Broadway" in it, that had no more connotation of an American Pope than his walking down Piccadilly, the Rue de la Paix or Unter den Linden would have connoted an English, French or German Pope...
...Renaissance Florence the Antinori family were the leaders of the silk weavers guild. A present day Antinori is chic Princess Caetani (née Cora Antinori), who is also a granddaughter of Egisto P. Fabbri, partner of the first J. P. Morgan. It was not inappropriate, therefore, last week when Princess Caetani appeared at Manhattan's St. Regis Hotel with Mrs. Harrison ("World's Best Dressed Woman") Williams in tow, to display unique yarns and fabrics developed in Italy by the great firm of Snia Viscosa and soon to be offered...
...fibres to the U. S., eventually will build U. S. factories. U. S. representatives are the big New York firm of Meyer & Marks Yarn Co. Inc., whose president, Jack W. Block, likes to assert that lanital will do to the wool business what rayon had done to the silk. U. S. woolmen, absorbed with more immediate troubles (see p. 75) last week produced no retort to this other than the findings year and half ago published in the bulletin of the National Association of Wool Manufacturers by Chief Chemist Von Bergen of the Forstmann Woolen Co.-that casein-wool "resembles...
...rayon groups have spent the three weeks since the original FTC decision trying hard to get it altered. Last week Erwin Feldman, counsel for the National Association of House Dress Manufacturers, tried a new tack by storming that fibre identification is due to Japanese propaganda spread by the International Silk Guild in an attempt to spike rayon sales...