Word: elizabeth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hell with it." To designers, spinach is not only a humble green but a trade word for any superfluous decoration. From these two sources came the fitting title of a book published this week by Manhattan's No. 1 dress designer, petite, smart, feline Elizabeth Hawes.* To Designer Hawes, "fashion" is superfluous decoration. In the process of telling how she shrugged it off she gives the dress trade a sane and entertaining dressing down...
...write her book, told only about what she had run up against or figured out in business. This was considerable. First U. S. designer to challenge Paris successfully, first to show U. S.-designed clothes in Paris, first foreign designer invited to show her stuff in the Soviet Union, Elizabeth Hawes believes in "style," a quality in a dress which enables its purchaser to wear it happily for three years. Style changes about every seventh year. On the other hand, the fashion world is a dizzy merry-go-round of superficial changes which enable mass manufacturers to sell cheap...
...Elizabeth Hawes thinks this is already a complete anachronism, that the time has come and that she herself has proved that U. S. manufacturers would do better each to hire a real designer and specialize in something the public wants, instead of herding frantically after the French or one another...
...blend of gusty Tallulah Bankhead, smoldering Miriam Hopkins, redheaded Erin O'Brien-Moore, flashing Paulette Goddard. For Scarlett, Producer Selznick scanned one after another of the public's suggestions, considered as well young Actresses Margaret Tallichet and Arlene Whalen, Mrs. John Hay Whitney, nee Mary Elizabeth ("Liz") Altemus (his backer's wife). On his problems Producer Selznick has for nearly two years been pondering. And other studios, expecting that the cinema Gone With the Wind would be a first-rate harbinger for a whopping cycle of Southern pictures, waited patiently for Producer Selznick...
...name, Bette (pronounced Betty), was a custom-made diminutive of Elizabeth. Her full name is Ruth Elizabeth, after her mother, Ruth Elizabeth Favor Davis. When Bette was eight her parents were divorced.* Thereafter Bette & Barbara lived with Mrs. Davis, known affectionately as Ruthie...