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...plush Versailles, Nightclub Satirist Kay Thompson solved a problem to her own fans' satisfaction. She likes to do her act in tailored slacks; some of her admirers demanded that she wear a dress. Her compromise solution: a new outfit she described as "pedal pushers surrounded by a split skirt...
...mournful sort, usually sing of the cruel landlord, the icy mountains, the deceived husband. The tolimenses more often compose their songs about their burros, canoes, crops, or sweethearts. Straw-hatted, sandal-shod, machete-lugging mountaineers flirt as they dance to the music. Their girls, swaying and whirling with lifted skirt, respond coquettishly to each advance...
...holding a bouquet to ward off unknowing handshakers, was discussing the impracticality of the President's House, as a home. "It was built by President Lowell whose idea of something grand was that spiral staircase over there. It's fine for allowing ladies to sweep down in a full skirt and a train, but it seems as if the staircase came first and the house as an after-thought." Someone asked her if she had occasion to sweep down with a train much, and she laughed and said not much. "Of course, this place is practical when you are entertaining...
...important to have a well-coordinated team as a great star. To put on the great "white ballets"-the classics that England's Royal Opera House company has made its specialty-it had to have both. Says U.S. Choreographer George Balanchine: "When you dance in a short skirt, a tutu, you have to be very well trained, very precise. It's like a coloratura singing Mozart; she has to sing every note. In classical ballet, legs are coloratura...
...that art was more important than a good living; he lit out for Paris. Soon he was painting competent, easy-to-take hybrids of Sargent and Whistler, and with them winning prizes and acclaim. With An Arrangement, a low-keyed study of a girl in shirtwaist and skirt kneeling on an oriental carpet, he pulled down the fattest plum the U.S. had to offer an artist, $1,500 and a gold medal for the best painting in the 1901 Carnegie International. Collectors began buying his conventional canvases, museums began displaying them...