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Critics who had snubbed the opening at Paris' Galerie Alex Gazelles last month yielded to word-of-mouth raves last week and hustled over to smart Rue du Faubourg St. Honoré to join the crowds. Reported Le Figaro's Art Critic André Warnod: "It is amazing to see the prescience which seems to govern all these pictures, still lifes as well as landscapes." Said Les Nouvelles Litteraires: ". . . Prodigious. [The] designs show authority and the palette is astonishingly rich." Said the weekly Carrefour: "Our theorists will find it difficult to explain this phenomenon." The phenomenon was Artist...
...night of his death Rubinstein turned up at Nino's La Rue, a sleek supper club where he habitually dined, with a new girl friend, Estelle Gardner, a bosomy, cosmetics salesgirl. The two sipped martinis and pink champagne for a while, dined and danced, and left about 12:30 for a nightcap at Serge's mansion. In Rubinstein's third-floor suite. Estelle waited while he made several attempts to get Patricia Wray, another friend, on the telephone...
...Real Money. U.S. jazzmen, and particularly Negro jazzmen, continue to find steady success in Paris cellars and bars. The famed Hot Club of Paris has its headquarters in a Pigalle courtyard with four walkways named Rue Armstrong, Rue Ellington, Rue Gillespie and, of course, Rue Bechet. Sidney, who set out on jazz street at ten playing the clarinet in some of the gayer New Orleans brothels, came to be regarded as one of the best jazzmen in the U.S., but never managed to make a steady living at it. Once he ran a pants-pressing establishment in Harlem and only...
Lizzy Miles (Cook LP). Billed as "Queen Mother of the Rue Royale," Blues Shouter Miles sounds much like her sisters, Bessie Smith. Chippie Hill et al., with the difference that, pushing 60 she is very much alive. Taped in New Orleans last spring this beautifully recorded album also contains a chorus (All of Me) in French and. of all things, a hot bugle, played by Buglin' Sam DeKemel...
...shrieks and sly gags over the newest look in Paris fashions (TIME, Aug. 9) were beginning to die down last week. As the gasps subsided along Rue du Faubourg-Saint-Honore, and the fashion editors took a second look, they saw that Designer Christian Dior's flat look was not so flat after all. Fewer than a third of Dior's new dresses minimized the bosom, and even these bore no resemblance to the droopy formlessness of the Jazz Age. Most dresses were molded from hipbone to mid-bust, creating a long, svelte torso, a high and undeniably...