Word: dress
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Footlights is another play about the show business. It holds up to ridicule the efforts of a shoe-string producer to turn out a musical comedy. There are dress rehearsal scenes, dressing-room scenes, scenes where the effeminate stage manager fumes. After all is set for the opening night, the actor who plays the part of the producer holds up his hands in dismay, cries: "What a terrible flop ... I don't believe we'll live till Saturday!" Thereupon the real audience at the Lyric Theatre mocked him with loud applause...
Married. Lucien Lelong, selfstyled inventor of the "kinetic theory* of feminine dress," and smart, leading Parisian couturier; to Princess Natalie Paley, daughter (by a morganatic marriage) of the late Grand Duke Paul, an uncle of Tsar Nicholas II; at Paris...
Last week, on Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, skill failed. A rivet leaped through the air, gave a convulsive trout-like twist, dodged the waiting pail, slipped down through the air, gleaming, white hot, toward a Fifth Avenue bus-top. It struck with a hiss upon the back of a silk dress being worn by Helen Frawley, 17. Loiterers watched her being put into a taxicab, rubbed their eyes, gasped, moved away...
...expect too much of Stanley Baldwin ? Britain's Prime Minister?in the way of dress, pose or convention... To the man on the street Stanley Baldwin will appear "a nice-looking fellow." He might also be described as "chock full of common sense." Both inferences are correct. Mr. Baldwin comes from the "better" class of Englishmen, but he can be just as charming keeping pigs down on his Worcestershire farm as in the presence of his Majesty the King as a representative of the British people's will...
...where ministers held a conference last week, the Rev. A. C. Robertson of Louisville, Ky., denounced the conventionalized clothing that clergymen affect. Said he: "I feel like flinging a brick at a reporter when he refers to me as a 'gentleman of the cloth.' A preacher should dress and act so that no one suspects he is a minister and should avoid the 'Belasco collar...