Word: dressing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Patrol to the 1,513 dead who caused its creation. Rolling in the trough of the sea with a bleak grey sky above and the broken hull of the Titanic below, the Mendota lay at rest with her 90 officers & men lining her quarter-deck in full dress while Commander Henry W. Coyle Jr. read the burial service. A rifle squad fired three volleys, and the Mendota steamed away through the spume leaving a lone wreath bobbing on the waves...
...Brothers Benno, Leo, Marco & Emil Scheiner, fresh from Europe, Artist de Chirico had fashioned a twelve-foot mural. A curly-headed youth in a collar much too big for him and full evening dress with swooping tails, occupies the right foreground. In the middle distance are a couple of characteristic de Chirico broken columns and an even more typical roly-poly, curly-tailed, prancing de Chirico horse, on which is mounted a man in a pink coat. Other figures seen are clothed in sack suits. "It took me about a week," said Artist de Chirico at last week...
...fabric design piracy. No matter how novel the design, fabrics cannot be successfully patented. Yet songs can be copyrighted. Ingenious Mr. Moon's idea is to use the title or a snatch of the lyric of a copyrighted song to designate print designs, thus extending to dress materials Tin Pan Alley's copyright protection. Adman Moon sees no reason why Night and Day should not identify a black & white print, and April in Paris a design of horse-chestnut blossoms, just as well as April Showers and My Sin identify perfumes...
There was no visible or audible audience reaction because, according to London journalists, Britishers "assume that when a performer leaves the stage the act is over." They were genuinely surprised when Miss Raye reappeared long enough to shed her dress completely, revealing her torso heavily enmeshed in spangled net. London's press reported next day that "after a long silence 'some few people clapped miserably'," but meanwhile the hardboiled, factual London scout of Broadway's stage sheet Variety cabled...
Tickets will be $3.50 couple and $2.00 stag, while formal dress is optional...