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“The Cabaret of Ghosts is running performances day and night”
In 1920, the Ouija board was all the rage. Fingertips poised on the pointer, legions of Americans glided their way through its alphabet, to yes, no, and eventually to goodbye.”Everybody’s doing it,” one journalist reported. “It is the new fairyland….
Tale of the Tutu
There was only one ballerina who could make the tutu what it is, and was, in 1832, Marie Taglioni, the era’s superstar, and the dancer whose style defined the Romantic ballet movement. In her leading role as an airy woodlands…
Image Factory
“Put a peephole in my brain Two New Pence to have a go I’d like to be a gallery Put you all inside my show….” So sang David Bowie in his early 70s tribute to Andy Warhol. For the next…
So Handy
In the 16th century, when lace trimmed handkerchiefs were the height of fashion at Queen Elizabeth‘s court, it was customary to attach one’s handkerchief to the left sleeve. Handkerchiefs, however, didn’t come into common everyday use until the 17th century—simultaneously with…
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