Word: venetian
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...scheduled to open Jan. 9- the annual National Automobile Show. Entering, pressmen found the lobby of Grand Central Palace transformed into a Venetian Doge's reception parlor. Artists had been busied for weeks with the panoramas. Trees and pottery had been imported, and even special linoleum with grains in imitation of Italian woods, was sent abroad for. In a court of the arts and sciences, immense statues brooded among Etruscan groves...
There were fewer gondolas and less dancing by the Venetian lagoons, than in the productions sponsored by the late Sir Herbert Tree and E. H. Sothern. The Manhattan babittry did not appear to mind, however, and laughed loudly at the perennial valid gag: "It's a wise son who knows his own father...
...taste, proved to be lamentably without his shrewdness. To liquidate his debts his executors offered the renowned Chiesa collection for sale. Last week part of it- 63 paintings by Flemish, Dutch, Italian masters, and a show of old armor, basinets and brigandines, a Castilian chapel-de-fer, a Venetian salade, some great two-handed swords from England-was put on exhibition in the American Art Galleries...
...Egyptian whatnot, to remind the fortunate who ride within that there are less comfortable ways to travel. For the convenience of any lady who might be so ill-advised as to forfeit a quiet walk for a ride in this car, there was a vanity case of tooled Venetian leather stretched upon wood, in which was set a Wedgewood cameo...
...Avery Hopwood have once more combined to spread abroad the glibly amusing message of an inconsequential farce. This French actress, one of the few by the way that have appealed to U. S. taste over several seasons, plays a secretary who pretends she is a cocotte. Against a Venetian background and the musical upholstery of incidental songs, the comedy will serve even better than Miss Bordoni's recent and not dissimilar entertainments...