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...lodge, complying with the new convention whereby Metropolitan Opera stars show cinema patrons how jolly and unpretentious they really are by breaking into jazz, Miss Moore rivals the recent efforts of Lily Pons and Gladys Swarthout by moaning an expurgated version of "Minnie the Moocher" while attired in a flannel shirt and trousers. This is the comic climax of the picture. It is followed by the formal climax in which, at a song festival in which she is appearing as a gesture of loyalty to an orchestra conductor (Henry Stephenson). Miss Moore favors the sound track with Schubert...
This year's Gridiron Widows party was one of the most intimate shows ever seen at the White House. Not counting a burlesque of burlesque in which a plump newshen did a strip tease, another in red flannel underwear did a fan dance, there was a scene in which one of the characters suggested that the Roosevelts "must like people; they marry so many of them," in which was outlined (but not played) a scene between Mrs. Roosevelt and Queen Mary, discussing their sons' prospective marriages...
...ambulance which had been hidden behind bushes slipped up to the train. Mr. Morgan in a dark blue silk lounging robe, white flannel trousers, a white silk scarf, was wheeled to the railroad car's rear door. Four men lifted Mr. Morgan & chair to the ground. The ambulance's stretcher on wheels was ready. Mr. Morgan, his legs dangling, partially helped himself to the stretcher, partially was lifted. Soon as he arranged himself comfortably, bearers swung the stretcher into the ambulance, bounced the patient against the ambulance roof. He uttered no sound...
...summer season at the Lewisohn Stadium. Iturbi said he was booked for 47 U. S. concerts during the summer. In the Lewisohn Stadium, where three years ago he managed for the first time to make the U. S. think of him as a conductor, Iturbi appeared in a white flannel suit, dark blue shirt and white tie, played Beethoven vigorously. The audience approved the addition of tables at which to sit and drink during the concert...
Students haven't changed much during the last half century, according to Mr. Taylor, except that they used to take a good deal more care about their clothes. Those who could afford good clothes wore them, and would have scorned the grey flannel, checkered coat with patched sleeves, and decayed shoes seen about the Square today...