Word: dress
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...professional make-up man, Paramount's Edward Sigmund Senz, was given general supervision. He sent Miss Phillips to a dentist to have two protruding teeth "capped," to Columbia University for a voice test, to a wigmaker for a flattering, readymade wig to cover her short, scraggly hair. A dress designer conceived a special frock to "soften the neckline." Make-up Man Senz "deepened" Miss Phillips' bulgy eyes with dark brown "shadow," made her nose look smaller, penciled in wide-curved eyebrows, applied long artificial eyelashes. Stepping back from his work with satisfaction, "Eddie" Senz tweaked the nurse...
...most striking picture in the current showing is that of Reginald Marsh, "High Yaller". This depicts a tall negro beauty striding down a Harlem street clad in her best Sunday finery. A dress of extraordinarily bright yellow contrasts strikingly with the grimness of the brownstone steps before which she passes and with the dusky hue of her skin. The modeling of the statesque figure is most carefully and wonderfully done, thereby achieving a most vivid sense of motion and a swinging gait...
Another work of great interest is the "Flower Vendor" by Raphael Soyer. It gives a scene of typical New York types, with emphasis on facial expressions and characteristic gestures and dress. Every face is carefully modeled, much attention being paid to individual features. An arresting point in the painting is the incongruity of the shabbily dressed man holding clumsily the luxurious and fragile flowers, whose bright red contrast strongly with the dingy black and brown of his dress. This red and the red of the handkerchief in his pocket put life into the scene and bring the whole into focus...
...Gahan and his orchestra will furnish the music at Lowell's annual Fall Dance Saturday evening after the Dartmouth game. Dinner will be served before the affair, informal dress will be the order of the evening, dancing will last from 8.30 to 12 o'clock, and admission will be $2.00 per couple and $1.50 stag...
...formal evening House affairs, will be preceded by dinner in the House and will last from 9 to 12 o'clock. The price of admission will be $2.00 for couples and $1.25 for stags. Tickets may be secured from members of the dance committee or at the door. Formal dress will be required...