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...front cover there is a colored photograph of the usual elegant female, standing on a chair while a grey-haired, spectacled, crushed-looking man in shirtsleeves kneels at her feet, doing something to the edge of her skirt. If one looks closely one finds that actually he is about to take a measurement with a yardstick. But to a casual glance he looks as though he were kissing the hem of the woman's garment-not a bad symbolical picture of American civilization, or at least of one important side...
Back to Manhattan from her first postwar inspection of her villa in Capri came best-dressed Mrs. Harrison Williams, in what the tabloid Daily Mirror called "a pale beige wool dress, with a deeper-than-usual neckline and longer-than-usual skirt." How had she found things? Said she: "A great many things are gone, including a most wonderful wine cellar. Not a bottle remains." But she kept her chin up. "C'est la guerre," said Mrs. Williams...
Died. Cornelia T. Crosby, 93, who as a sickly girl was advised to "take huge doses of outdoors" for her health, became a six-foot Maine woods' guide and first woman to hold a Maine guide license; in Lewiston, Me. She modeled the first short-skirt sports costume for women (seven inches from the ground) at the National Sportsman Show of 1895, was credited with coining the phrase "Playground of the Nation" for her native state, was believed to have caught more fish with a fly than any other woman...
Traubel's and Melchior's relationship is Falstaffian. In Die Walküre, when Traubel is left alone on stage, Melchior sometimes prances about the wings as a Rhine maiden in a grass skirt, to try to make her laugh. Once, when she leaned tenderly over his body on the couch in the last act of Tristan, in the scene where Tristan dies of wounds inflicted by a jealous rival, Melchior muttered: "Helena, hurry up the Liebestod (love death). I'm hungry and I need a beer...
...neck? On account of you, I haven't been able to buy a dress long enough to come below my knees since the war started. I'm no bobbysoxer. ... I bought a suit that fits perfectly except that I can't sit down without hiking the skirt...