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...black horse and dressed in black velvet, John Gielgud came as "Night." On a white horse Gertrude Lawrence came as "Day." Mrs. S. Stanwood Menken, "Silver Rain," wore 600 yards of silver-lined bugle fringe, a headdress six feet wide illuminated with blue neon tubes. Gypsy Rose Lee wore spangles. That was the seventeenth Beaux-Arts Ball which took place at Manhattan's Hotel Astor last week...
Lamented Journal of Commerce's Claudia Cassidy: "That amazing voice is gone, perhaps forever. Instead of cream velvet jeweled with coloratura splendor there is an unsteady little lyric soprano quavering like a sad ghost pleading for reincarnation." Wrote Daily News Critic Eugene Stinson: "She had command neither of voice nor of breath: Panic seized her and for three hours the public watched one of the pluckiest fights the theatre has ever seen. Mme Galli-Curci's vocal estate improved but in the end it had not yet attained a suitable degree of competency." Few days later Critic Stinson...
...their cavernous new marble chamber, against their rich red velvet backdrop, the nine U. S. Supreme Court Justices looked magnificent but could hear little. To improve acoustics, more red velvet curtains were draped at either end of the bench. Result was to cast the justices into shadowy gloom. Last week the red curtains, side and rear, were swathed in white, and only in the front half of the chamber were inverted ceiling lights switched on. Thus the audience was thrown into shadow, the black-robed old actors into brilliant relief...
...Roosevelt (on viewing a mock torchlight parade at Manhattan's Velvet Ball): I find this kind of politics very delightful. When done by the young politicians it is charming...
Before the degree-granting ceremony was well under way, a fresh torrent of rain descended on the Yard. Still confident in his meteorologist, President Conant kept stolidly on. A concerned alumnus broke through Secret Service men to President Roosevelt, whose velvet chair had become sodden, offered an umbrella which Mr. Roosevelt smilingly declined. Moment later birdlike Jerome Davis Greene, member of the Harvard Corporation and Director of arrangements for the Tercentenary, bustled up anxiously with a gold-headed umbrella. The President again declined, turned to watch Rome's Professor Corrado Gini break a well-publicized rule...