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...Bloomer Girl. Handsome, tuneful Civil War musical, more concerned with fem inists than Fort Sumter (TIME...
...Bloomer Girl (book by Sig Herzig and Fred Saidy from a play by Lilith & Dan James; music & lyrics by Harold Arlen and E. Y. Harburg; produced by John C. Wilson in association with Nat Goldstone) was a roaring hit before it ever opened. Even after the superlatives have settled and the hats have dropped from the air, it remains a superior musical. A shiny period piece, it has approached its job with talent and invested a fortune with taste. Verbal comedy aside, it is an unusually well-rounded show-good music, likable lyrics, attractive dancing, engaging performers, stylish sets, gorgeous...
Laid in an Eastern town in 1861, Bloomer Girl features revolt as well as romance. Evelina Applegate (played by thin-voiced but charming Celeste Holm) is the daughter of a stuffy manufacturer of hoopskirts, the niece of a suffragist proponent of bloomers. The young lady throws in her lot with her aunt, who also hides fugitive slaves. As a result, Evelina quarrels with her Kentucky beau (David Brooks), owner of one of the fugitives; and when Auntie gets pinched for crusading, Evelina accompanies her to jail. In musicomedy, however, stone walls do not an ending make...
...since Mrs. Amelia Bloomer created an international uproar in 1849 by appearing in public in voluminous Turkish trousers had such a feminine trouser sensation swept the country. High-school girls in Brooklyn's big Abraham Lincoln High School struck for the right to wear slacks. In Detroit Mayor Edward Jeffries grudgingly admitted that a female employe of the city, forced by priorities to bicycle to work, might do her job in slacks. Pants made good sense for wartime. Lieut. Commander Roy R. Darron ordered women employed in the machine shops of the Alameda Naval Air Station in California...
Jean Knox's formula for womanly morale: "No woman can be happy in her job unless she's well-dressed." Her first plans last week were to redesign the A.T.S.' ungainly bell skirt, do away with Mrs. Bloomer's famed undergarment. She instructed camp tailoresses: "Take an inch up on the shoulder, raise the shoulder line, shorten sleeves, give more wrapover in front. . . ." Busting tradition as wide open as the male generals who tolerated tanks in place of horses, she made rayon panties standard equipment for the A.T.S...