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...lean years in fashions are no lean years for Lane Bryant, Inc., No. 1 W. 39th Street, Manhattan, outfitters of the ample. For it is the specialty of the Lane Bryant stores so to drape the stout figure that its outlines may be reduced, restricted, curbed. Many an "outsize" woman has come away from Lane Bryant's with the comfortable feeling that 20 superfluous pounds have been deftly hidden in the subtle folds of the Bryant draperies. And, though the business was begun largely with the idea of catering to the naturally stout woman (TIME, June 4), the unmodish...
...games, golf, where you go around after a little ball and only give it a hit about every five minutes.* Where TIME lay down was in not printing some of the real sport news of the week. Why not tell how Babe Ruth socked his 37th, 38th and 39th and 40th homers? Why not write up some of the good fights ? How about the races? Maybe they wouldn't admit it but I bet you most of your readers would sooner bet on a horse race than watch a fat lot of old ladies "bowl on the green...
Philadelphia bustled and tumbled with the 39th convention of the Loyal Order of Moose?membership, 650,000; slogan, "Pap." Some 50,000 delegates attended, together with 1,200 women auxiliaries who were last week admitted to a men's session for the first time...
Maxine Elliott's 39th W. of Broadway--Ethel Barrymore in the Constant Wife is worth seeing if you've never seen Ethel. The play is not so good. Its whole element is clever, tricky lines that are none too clever or tricky...
Fattest of all prizes at the Chicago Art Institute's 39th annual show last week was one of $1,500 given by Patron Frank Granger Logan, retired grain broker, the Institute's assiduous vice president. This sum they presented to Painter George Benjamin Luks for his strong, broadly painted, modernistic study of a male native of Cuba operating an accordion. Another $1,000 from Patron Logan went to Painter Charles Sydney Hopkinson for a study of himself and his family...