Word: teller
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bonwit Teller (department store) has earned a reputation for having Manhattan's screwiest window displays (TIME, Dec. 5). Fortnight ago, Bonwit's smartly hired the world's No. 1 surrealist, Salvador Dali, to create two more screwy windows. Last week Dali gave Bonwit Teller more than it bargained for, all on the hackneyed subject of "Night...
Came real but prosaic day and Bonwit Teller resumed its ladies garment business. Among its customers appeared ladies who thought the Dali windows "extreme," told the management so. By noon Salvador Dali's sleeping mannequin had been replaced by a seated figure, his bather replaced by a glamor dummy in a tailored suit. No one cared, until late in the afternoon Artist Dali strolled by and saw the havoc that had been made of his havoc-making Freudian designs...
...Frances Crane Leatherbee, of the Chicago plumbing Cranes. Her father, onetime Minister to China, was a potent backer of Father MasaRyk; her brother, Richard Teller Crane 2nd. was first U. S. Minister to Czechoslovakia. The Jan Masaryks are now divorced...
...where he once worked and where he married an American heiress.* He found the U. S. changed-for the better-but the U. S. found no change in him. Still the urbane, witty image of Cinemactor Dudley Digges in appearance, expression and tone of voice, still a great teller of racy stories and amiable spiller of confidences, he wasted no bitterness last week on the men that so hastily and so clumsily deserted his country. His chief criticism of the Munich deal, said he in private, was that "It lacked skill, elegance. It was so, what shall I say, middle...
...striking force in window display, in fact, has been imitation of the catchier varieties of modern art. First window designs openly based on an art exhibition were Saks's van Gogh windows in 1935. Since then Bonwit Teller has taken the ball from shrewd Saksman Ring and has had half a dozen tie-ups with Art, notably a Surrealist display in 1936 designed by none other than Salvador Dali. Bonwit's own Display Director Tom Lee has reached a certain summit this autumn with swank and cockeyed Ballet windows. Harlequin windows and "Sweet Surrealism'' windows...