Word: coiffeurs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reported Dead. Paul Poiret, 65, onetime dictator of fashion; in Paris. In 1898 he quit his job as umbrella salesman to design women's clothes, became the world's top-ranking designer with his creation of the hobble skirt, later blossomed out as playwright, painter, actor, coiffeur (creator of bobbed hair). Dressmaker to royalty, he came to London in 1912 at the invitation of Margot Asquith, gave a spring showing at No. 10 Downing St. Portly, pompous, dark-skinned Couturier Poiret was an autocratic extrovert, lived like an Oriental potentate in a Paris house bedecked with ibises, parrots...
...legs for U.S. photographers, call themselves Pestkas. Sent here by the Polish Government in Exile (loudly denounced by the Soviet Union as fascist), they have worked behind the lines with Polish troops in the Middle East. When they arrived in New York last week they headed straight for a coiffeur, then shopped for stockings, cosmetics, lingerie. Next stop: Buffalo's Polish colony...
Hello, Frisco, Hello* (20th Century-Fox) is approximately 100% Alice Faye. This is her first picture since she took time out two years ago to have a baby. Slimmer (112 Ib.), more sedate and embellished with a new hairdo by famed Coiffeur Wayne Forrest, Alice winsomely croons many an old sweet song...