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Real hero of Lute Song is famed, all-too-infrequently busy Scene Designer Robert Edmond Jones (Emperor Jones, Green Pastures), whose sets and costumes are often things of splendor. They tremendously enhance the movement as well as the looks of the play-the wedding and burial scenes, the exotic dances, a captivating Imperial March. The best of Composer Scott's incidental music has color also, and one or two of the little songs he has written for Mary Martin have a reedy charm. Actress Martin, straying far from the My Heart Belongs to Daddy sort of singing that made...
...many would take to the new dress whites (see cut), which some sour old regulars thought would look fine on soda jerks. Best-looking of the lot were the dress blues with battle jacket and overseas cap-although they were still not up to the crisp splendor of Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King, wartime COMINCH and Chief of Naval Operations, who-looking like an embossed pillar of naval majesty surmounted by scrambled eggs-was named last week by Apparel Arts as the best-dressed sailor...
Young Mohamed Reza was brought up in a palace atmosphere of despotic splendor. From Iran's jewel-studded Peacock Throne his father grimly ordered his enemies murdered or jailed, ruled his "court with a caprice that ranged from slapping ministers in the face to kicking subjects in the crotch. (Once, rumor had it, the young Prince himself felt the royal boot and landed in a palace fountain...
...hotel drew a wide and wealthy following. General Phil Sheridan lived there, delighted by the splendor of its huge Corinthian rotunda, Italian marble staircase, ornate sparkling chandeliers and a barbershop floor inlaid with silver dollars. Potter Palmer was almost as proud of his House as he was of his wife-of whom he once said fondly: "There she stands, with $200,000 [in jewels] on her." Only once did his hotel fail him. The Infanta Eulalia of Spain cut short a visit with Mrs. Palmer, then the queen of Chicago society, because she was "the wife of an innkeeper...
...same as a] palace of the 16th Century. There one sees what Shakespeare saw: the absolute power of the tyrant, the courtiers, the flatterers, the jesters, the cunningly ambitious intriguers. There are fantastically beautiful women . . . incompetent favorites . . . great men who are suddenly disgraced . . . insane extravagances . . . unexpected parsimony . . . enormous splendor, which is a sham . . . horrible squalor hidden behind the scenery . . . vast schemes abandoned because of some caprice . . . secrets which everybody knows and no one speaks of. There are even two or three honest advisers. These are the court fools, who speak the deepest wisdom in puns, lest they should be taken...