Hidden Treasure Found

I believe I have figured out where Fenn's hidden treasure is. Please see the previous post for more information on this. It was all a very interesting and delightful intellectual exercise. Now, I must get my ass over there and collect it, so to speak. 

In the old days

I found this on some website I do not recall. It is - believe it or not - a photo of a fashion show. All we see is one model but the site said it was taken because someone in the family happened to be there. As you can appreciate, there are no runways for the models. The crowd was not there for the show, I'm sure, so the extracurricular event is beyond me. It was supposedly taken in 1958, when women still wore swimsuits. How odd!!!

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes

Otto Harbach just might be related to J.S. Bach, but who really knows? Harbach was a songwriter born on this day in 1873. Think of that - 1873. Nobody would know him today if it hadn't been for "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes," the song he wrote with Jerome Kern in 1933 - he was the lyricist. The song sounds like a thoroughly modern song, though it is not. It was first used in 1933 and went to the top of the charts in 1934. It was first used in a movie featuring Fred Astaire in 1935. It has also been recorded numerous times by a very wide variety of artists, including Louis Armstrong, Nat King Cole, Eartha Kitt, and Jerry Garcia, who used it on a video in 1992. As recently as 2007, the title was used in the pilot episode for the hit drama Mad Men, a production of the American Movie Classics cable network. Who would have thought that a guy born in 1873 would write a popular song still being used in the 21st Century? That's why they're called classics. I hope his heirs are still getting royalties.