Art: Dali's Display

Bonwit Teller (department store) has earned a reputation for having Manhattan's screwiest window displays (TIME, Dec. 5). Fortnight ago, Bonwit's smartly hired the world's No. 1 surrealist, Salvador Dali, to create two more screwy windows. Last week Dali gave Bonwit Teller more than it bargained for, all on the hackneyed subject of "Night" and "Day."

For "Day," the dapper, delirious Catalonian placed in one window an old-fashioned bathtub lined with black Persian lamb and filled with water, from which three wax arms arose holding mirrors. Pensive before the tub stood a wax mannequin...

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