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...heated argument ever since. Some say it began at a dance of one of the Chowder and Marching Clubs in the Bowery, when leaders of Manhattan's Irish society decided that tails cramped their style. Berry Wall, male fashion plate of the 'gos, claimed that his London tailor made him the first one. At any rate, the jacket took its name from the nobs' Tuxedo...
...obscure tailor, Auguste Renoir was born exactly 100 years ago in the French porcelain-manufacturing city of Limoges. At the age of 14 he started his artistic career in Paris painting pink and blue flowers on teacups. He graduated to painting fans and devotional pictures for missionaries. When he entered the studio of Marc Charles Gabriel Gleyre, he soon ran afoul of his sober-minded teacher. Said Gleyre: "You seem to take painting as fun." Agreed Renoir, "If painting were not fun to me I should certainly...
...CARELESS HANGMAN-Nigel Borland-Farrar & Rinehart ($2). Mrs. Battleaxe Pym of the Yard roars her giant red Sforza all over Thameshire in the matter of the tailor's dummy made of a human skeleton...
...Governor General invited the Japanese to a reception. The Japanese accepted, planning to attend in native costume or uniform. The Dutch sent word that those who attend receptions of the Governor General always go in formal European dress. Immediately, each tailor shop in town received orders for five or six small tail coats. At the reception, Colonel Itsuo Ishimoto of the mission drank more Bols gin than was good for him, became attracted by the long curved creese of a Javanese prince. The creese is more than a sword to the Javanese; it is a sacred symbol...
...polka-dotted tunes, showed off some notable young talent: Basso Luke Matz (music supervisor in the Unionville, Pa. public school), as a jovial village marriage broker; Soprano Frances Greer (Philadelphia church singer), as the unwilling betrothed of the village simpleton (Tenor John Toms, voice teacher); Tenor Edward Nyborg (Philadelphia tailor's helper), as the boy who finally gets the girl...