Word: fashioner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...present it is opposing the House Resolution 1776, and is advocating the repeal of conscription. The Harvard Liberal Union favors aid to England and to China, the building of a strong national defense, and above all it emphasizes the need of carrying out these measures in a democratic fashion...
Moss Hart's play idea is 18-carat. A hard-working editress of a fashion magazine, unhappy despite her enviable job and a devoted married lover, goes to get herself psyched. With that the play dissolves into a psychoanalytical circus with four revolving rings. The scene shifts from the psychoanalyst's office to the Allure office, to the young lady's dreams, and back again. Playwright Hart puts anything on the stage that he wishes?a love affair, sophisticated neuro-drama. fashion parades, farce, musical dream fantasias. And the lovely editress learns that she really wants to be less editorial...
...swarthy Victor Mature, latest in Hollywood's series of almost outrageously beautiful young men, who appears in every costume the feminine audience could wish, from breech clout to dress suit. Prepossessing young Macdonald Carey is the editress' eventual sweetheart. And Danny Kaye is very funny as a pansy fashion photographer who in true Cecil Beatonish style photographs a suit of armor with a blue chiffon scarf wrapped around its metal neck and stuffed doves perched on its shoulders. In the circus dream he scores the comic hit of the show with a jabberwockian song consisting entirely of the names...
Informed that Nazis have picked Vienna to supplant Paris as world's fashion centre, New York's style-minded Mayor Fiorello H. ("Little Flower") LaGuardia grinned: "I think that indicates that they expect to control everything, if they win. I would refer that matter to Senator Wheeler...
Soon the noble savage's life was a whirl of London parties as drawing-room doors flew open. Omai dressed in the height of fashion. Baffling British etiquette held no mysteries for him. He was presented to George III. Sir Nathaniel Dance and Sir Joshua Reynolds (see cut) painted his portrait. His manners were preferred to those of Mr. Philip Stanhope (the bastard boy on whom Chesterfield lavished his famed letters of advice on how to behave: "Remember the Graces, the Graces, the Graces"). Only ungracious, hardheaded Sam Johnson growled to Boswell: "Don't cant about in defense...