Word: bridal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...flat fee. Last week in San Francisco, one Patricia Morgan, onetime Manhattan model and proprietor of a "charm" school, offered weddings similarly packaged. Her "Wedding Home" was aimed at business girls who, without church or family background, "have the same yearning as society belles to wear a bridal veil and are just as much entitled to." Miss Morgan priced her nuptials on a sliding scale, beginning with a curt ceremony in street clothes for $10. For $75, she offered a hall, flowers, music, minister or magistrate, bride's trousseau and bouquet, six prop bridesmaids (gowned), a flower girl, announcements...
...like gunnery, never learned to like army discipline. While he was in training at Camp Knox, Ky., he and Edith Wilk, onetime town librarian of Elwood, were married. Held up by a blizzard, Lieutenant Willkie was two days late for the wedding, turned up with a frozen, bedraggled bridal bouquet. Sweet-faced Edith Wilk carried it to the altar...
Daddy N. G. Richman always turns up at factory dances and celebrations, has the walls of his office lined with autographed bridal photos of Richman "fellow workers," has a huge album with autographed pictures of every man and woman who ever worked for Richman Bros. But "Daddy" Richman's friends never mention "paternalism" to him more than once. Says he: "That stuff's all right, but it's the pay envelope that counts...
...Bridal Suite (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer), all about the playboy (Robert Young) and the Alpine maid (Annabella), may, as its producers claim, suggest how Annabella captured Tyrone Power (TIME, May 1), but is nonetheless a very bad picture...
Inferior to Strindberg's The Father and Lady Julia, The Bridal Crown needs miraculously controlled acting to stay within bounds. Except for Aurora Bonney, the cast snubbed all current theories of acting, kept declaiming as from the scaffold, made a stage whisper sound like a call to arms...