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...also during the 1930s that debutantes began making larky plunges into show business. Between her debut and her marriage in 1947, Cornelia's mother was briefly a Ziegfeld Girl and a Hollywood starlet with a studio contract. In New York City, cafe society was paying to hear debs sing at the Waldorf-Astoria and Plaza hotels, as well as at a West Side nightclub called La Place Pigalle...
...luxuriate in their own revival. The acknowledged master of art deco in the 1920s and '30s, he created exuberantly fanciful costumes in his Paris studio for Anna Pavlova, Mrs. William Randolph Hearst and Josephine Baker. The sets he designed for the Folies-Bergère and the Ziegfeld Follies were backdrops for the extravagances of the age. In the postwar era, however, Erté's conceits were often dismissed as high camp or low kitsch. Undeterred, he kept on painting the Erté woman, who is the focus of most of his grand designs. Stylized, curvilinear and faintly...
Reminiscing about the sumptuousness of the decors he designed on visits to the U.S. in the '20s, Erte recalls that one set for the Ziegfeld Follies was built with 6½ miles of gold lame, specially ordered from France. Still, Erté's work did more than coruscate. At the other end of the spectrum of his sensibility are the exquisite gouache-and-ink fashion illustrations of his original designs, drawn for Harper's Bazaar from...
DIED. Alfred Bloomingdale, 66, credit card tycoon and confidant to President Reagan; of cancer; in Santa Monica, Calif. In the '40s Bloomingdale was a producer on Broadway (Ziegfeld Follies) and an executive at Columbia Pictures. Heir to the Bloomingdale department-store fortune, he made his millions and started the credit card boom with the launching of Diners' Club in 1950. In July Vicki Morgan. 30, filed a $10 million palimony suit against Bloomingdale and his wife Betsy, claiming that Bloomingdale had promised her lifetime support during the twelve years she says she was his companion. He left...
...throwback to the elegance of the Russia whence he came, Erte has been for eight decades both a witness to and an influence on the style and tone of the 20th century. The designer for the Folies-Bergère, the Ziegfeld Follies, George White's Scandals and the illustrator of every Harper's Bazaar cover from 1915 to 1936, Erte continues today to work in his Paris home, creating his fine-lined, Beardsley-esque drawings; only last June, Der Rosenkavalier, featuring his sets and costumes, was performed at England's Glyndebourne Opera Festival...