Word: dress
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rockefeller McCormick clasped her ancestral necklace of giant emeralds. Mrs. Samuel Insull donned a new black chiffon, all spangled with gold. John McCormack buttoned himself into a new dress shirt. Photographers gave their flashlight cameras a final inspection. Such things were important last week to the 3,500 Chicagoans who crowded the Auditorium Theatre for the opening of the Chicago Opera's 17th season. For some ten million others* the second act of Verdi's Traviata was the event of the evening. (Announcement: for the next twelve successive Thursday evenings the Chicago Opera will broadcast...
...running its play in Cambridge on four consecutive nights. There has formerly been a break of one evening in the Brattle Hall performances, but the inability of the club last spring to meet the demand for tickets for its presentation of "The Taming of the Shrew" in modern dress has warranted the new policy...
...GOOD M. POIRET IS touring the LAND commenting ON American dress both MALE and female AND although he is QUALIFIED to judge OF THESE things and PASS cutting remarks AND WE are not YET we too are going to INDULGE in a little HARMLESS FIREWORKS...
Remember "Brown of Harvard"? It was one of the first of the modern college pictures and was an honest attempt to portray student life at a large university without the usual attendant hokum. Harvard itself formed the background for much of the picture. Of course the problem of proper dress cropped up immediately. Jack Conway, the director, solved it by sending to Brooks Brothers of New York for appropriate clothes for his principles. In addition he used as a guide various snapshots taken in and about New Haven. Men's Wear. Cicago Apparel Gazette...
Trumpeters blew welcome from the stage, a standard bearer struck the first note of color and 50 singers in Renaissance dress, filed on. Conductor Sandro Benelli (brother of Poet Sem Benelli, author of The Jest) put them through their paces, helped them find pianissimos ineffably tender, failed to tie up smoothly whole sheafs of measures...