Habitues of Art Basel and Frieze might dismiss much of what was for sale as "park railing" art with negligible investment value, but on the closing Sunday the fair was packed with 30- and 40-somethings pushing strollers, happily browsing the booths to a soundtrack of Kid Creole and the Coconuts.
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He was "one of the best-known habitues of the Metropolitan Opera House. He and his daughter had orchestra stalls, and they never missed a performance. They were regular attendants at all the Sunday concerts." He was a member, and governor, of the Newport Casino, where he attended many dances, balls and social functions.
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A & C Black Ltd, London, 1977, p106. with Diana Gould, Mary Skeaping, Tamara Svetlova and Mona Kimberley (Can-can dancers), William Chappell and Walter Gore (Adolphe and Gustave, habitues of the Bar), Oliver Reynolds (an old man) and Suzette Morfield (a servant).Beaumont, Cyril W. Complete Book of Ballets - 'Bar aux Folies-Bergère'. Putnam, London, 1949, p938-941.
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In 1885, she created the part of Yum-Yum in The Mikado, perhaps her best known role. The Era reported that "Miss Braham has in the part of Yum-Yum full opportunities for displaying those powers of finished acting and accomplished vocalism which have long since won for her the friendly admiration of all habitues of the Savoy.""The Mikado at the Savoy", The Era, 12 September 1885, p. 9 She next created the part of Rose Maybud in Ruddigore (1887).
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The picture > itself, however, after a promising enough beginning turns into a lurid > melodramatic hash composed in about equal part of juvenile delinquency, > gangsterism and sex. These may be legitimate dramatic subjects but the > script gives them an illegitimate viewpoint and leaves muddled moral issues > dangling. The Florence Times wrote of Presley: > the fellow isn't a bad actor. Of course, he's nothing at all sensational and > the Academy Award isn't in danger, but there are Hollywood habitues who've > gotten by for years with less ability.
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" Since this was a mainstream film at a time, when the use of the word to refer to cross-dressing (and, by extension, homosexuality) would still be unfamiliar to most film- goers, the line can also be interpreted to mean, "I just decided to do something frivolous." In 1950, the earliest reference found to date for the word gay as a self-described name for homosexuals came from Alfred A. Gross, executive secretary for the George W. Henry Foundation, who said in the June 1950 issue of SIR magazine: "I have yet to meet a happy homosexual. They have a way of describing themselves as gay but the term is a misnomer. Those who are habitues of the bars frequented by others of the kind, are about the saddest people I’ve ever seen.
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Countess Mathieu de Noailles: Ignacio Zuloaga (1913) Before the end of 1894, as he did for all his interesting friends, Maxime presented Zuloaga at the salon of Madame Augustine Bulteau. Her considerable reach within the arts community would smooth his path to recognition and ultimately lead to several commissions from her network of expatriate Spanish-speaking habitues, most notably, the 1913 portrait of the writer Anna de Noailles, which would stand as one of Zuloaga's most important works. On May 18, 1899, in Saint-Philippe- du-Roule, Ignacio Zuloaga, to whom success has just smiled at the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, married Valentine Dethomas, with Eugène Carrière and Isaac Albéniz as witnesses. From a friendship born under the auspices of painting; re-invigorated by chance; and nourished by unbridled generosity; the family ties were thus consolidated between the two artists.
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Father Francis J. Caffrey of Mission San Juan Bautista delivered the eulogy at the request of the family although Carr was not Catholic. Among the notables were Admiral Joseph M. Reeves, commander-in-chief of the United States Naval Fleet, Sheriff Eugene Biscailuz, actor Harold Lloyd and director Cecil B. DeMille, but the throng also included "Main-street habitues, hard-bitten fellows from the flop-house district." Honorary pallbearers included producers Sid Grauman, Sol Lesser, Joseph Schenck, D.W. Griffith, Irvin Cobb and Mack Sennett, boxing champion Jack Dempsey, Judge Isidore B. Dockweiler, actors Ernst Lubitsch, Eric von Stroheim and Leo Carrillo, car dealer and radio station owner Earle C. Anthony and poet and writer John Steven McGroarty."Men of All Walks Will Serve as Pallbearers," Los Angeles Times, January 12, 1936, page A-3 Carr was buried at Rosedale Cemetery.
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Robinson, p. 11 After a few years, he left to freelance, selling cartoons to World editor John Tennant. In 1916, the George Matthew Adams Service syndicated Crosby's first feature, the daily and Sunday strip The Clancy Kids, earning Crosby a respectable $135 a week.Robinson, p. 16 While continuing on this first strip, Crosby studied at Manhattan's Art Students League under such instructors as George Bridgman, Frank DuMond, Joseph Pennell and Max Weber. The painter and League president Gifford Beal, recognizing Crosby's talent, invited him to spend the summer in Cape Cod, where Crosby made the acquaintance of Edwin Dickinson, Edward Hopper, Eugene O'Neill and other habitues of the Provincetown, Massachusetts artists colony. Back in New York, he fell in love with fellow League student Gertrude Volz, the artist-sculptor daughter of a well-to-do real-estate broker.
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A newspaper of the day, the San Francisco Herald, states of Sydney Town: > The upper part of Pacific Street, after dark, is crowded by thieves, > gamblers, low women, drunken sailors, and similar characters... Unsuspecting > sailors and miners are entrapped by the dexterous thieves and swindlers that > are always on the lookout, into these dens, where they are filled with > liquor – drugged if necessary, until insensibility coming upon them, they > fall an easy victim to their tempters...When the habitues of this quarter > have a reason to believe a man has money, they will follow him for days, and > employ every device to get him into their clutches...These dance-groggeries > are outrageous nuisances and nurseries of crime.Asbury 1933, p. 51 When looting San Francisco's neighborhoods, the Sydney Ducks even set fire to San Francisco six times between 1849 and 1851 in order to distract citizens from their pillaging and murdering. Whenever they planned to start a fire, they waited for south westerly winds so that Sydney Town would not also catch fire.
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