Word: fashion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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NIGHTCLUBS In Her Fashion...
...Hammerstein spotted her there, signed her for Allegro (1947), outfitted her with a show-stopping song, The Gentleman Is a Dope. In Cole Porter's Kiss Me Kate (1949), she raised double-entendre to a fine art, singing I'm Always True to You, Darling, in My Fashion. Since then, she has concentrated on elegant watering holes in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles. As she became perhaps the most velvety fixture in the velvet reaches of the posh supper clubs, she also helped set a trend toward acts with gimmicks. In her present carefully written show, Lisa does...
...Thin Man (NBC. 9:30-10 p.m.). Peter Lawford and Phyllis Kirk tangle in their debonair fashion with a character who claims to be the last of the West's badmen...
Explains Jocelyn Stevens, editor of the glossy fashion magazine, Queen: "Society smiles on all the up-and-coming money and enjoys it. but then withdraws into its own inner circle." In Stevens' world, the,socially important "ins" compromise brilliantly with the new-rich "outs." "Ascot, Lord's the Royal Academy, Henley are still very smart and as important as ever," and the ins cunningly let enough of the outs into Ascot at ten guineas a head to pay for the "necessary pomp and glamour...
...groaned a Swiss banker last week. ''But the whole world seems to be caught by a frenzy of speculation. If this goes on. something serious is bound to happen pretty soon." On Zurich's conservative and cosmopolitan Effektenborse. stock prices moved sharply up and down. Alpine fashion, and many an unsavvy investor plunged in with gusto. "For the first time." said another stiff-lipped Zurich banker, "our market is pulling in the barbers, the bakers and the waiters...