Word: tabarin
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Lunge, Dart, Pierce. Unlike the contemporary cubists, who had moved steadily away from subject matter, the futurists depended on subjects as their springboard. Gino Severini prized abstract, rhythmic forms that could evoke associations involving all the senses. His Dynamic Hieroglyph of the Bal Tabarin (see color) is a jumbled panorama of twirling skirts, a laughing face, the monocle of an aristocratic cafégoer, hints of music and noise through words ("valse," "polka," "bowling...
Says Picabia, who has been concentrating on dots in his Paris studio since last fall: "Ideas are like shirts. They get dirty after a while and then you have to change them." Toward serious art, he was as irreverent as ever: "I'd rather go to the Bal Tabarin than visit an art gallery. I'd rather have a seat in the Comedie-Fran-gaise than a seat in the Academe des Beaux-Arts...
...handbags, scarves, blouses and lingerie-were cheaper than in the U.S. And in Paris, as one tripper sighed ecstatically: "There seems to be an abundance of almost everything"-even if some things sold at inflationary prices. For night life, there were grubby clubs on Montmartre, dancers at the Bal Tabarin and undressed showgirls at the Folies-Berg...
...hitherto respected layman-gentle, white-mustached Henri Gotti, beadle of Sacré Coeur, who wore his plumed hat and carried his massive staff in parish processions. Each night, with francs filched from the almsbox, M. Gotti had slipped off to such fleshpots as the Moulin Rouge and Bal Tabarin. "Poor Gotti!" said worldly-wise parishioners. "Montmartre was too near the Sacré Coeur...
...None of us were amateurs, of course," Suzette explained. "We had all worked at the Bal Tabarin since before the war. But we never collaborated. A year ago the Germans were gathering a complement to send to the Maison Oslo and they did not have quite enough volunteers. So they grabbed us. They told our troop of 42 that it was for six months...