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Hedda Hopper, who knows Hollywood frou-&-frou, went to England to get some fundamental stuff. "During the war, every home in England was in the front lines," the high-styled gossipiste told her wide-eyed readers, "so I want to know what the masses thought...
...display of negligees could hardly have been greater. Newspaper advertisements warned women that they faced "a frank return to femininity." Said the ads: FROU FROU BECOMES YOU. In every big U.S. city, black (and transparent) nighties revealed the intimate mechanics of window dummies. Everywhere, hundred-dollar handbags were stacked in bargain-counter disarray. Perfume was a preferred item. Despite staggering price tags ($1,000 foi a 72-oz. jug of Worth's Dans la Nuit), it sold like patent medicine. Customers reached for absurdly priced costume jewelry as eagerly as pygmy tribesmen bartering for trade beads...
...Frou-Frou and Satire. The old Parisian skill was evident. In some of the old Parisian froufrou, the subtle political and social comment also was evident. Schiaparelli offered a model with a bustle in front. Lelong put jeeps on charm bracelets. Agile, aging (70) Madame Jeanne Lanvin (who served iced drinks to shivering patronesses} showed a slinky, black, backless, low-front evening dress called "Liberty." She also offered a simple frock of palest pink named "Free France...
...stability and poise which characterizes too little Advocate poetry, this piece achieves a balance between the verbose complexities of Dunstan Thompson and the simple triteness of Bruce Phemister whose poems also appear in this issue. Not to be forgotten is Robert Hillyer's "Fantasy," a bit of skillfully unimportant frou-frou, but delightful...
...complaint that the Advocate prints unsufficient (sic) fiction reflecting "college life," one can only reply that the Advocate has never set itself up as a literary version of the Crimson, that if the contributors choose to occupy themselves with what Mr. Freedman so quaintly described as "Freud and frou-frou," it is in itself a reflection of a prevalent spirit, and that any significant change in the contents of the magazine will come not through peevish, unsubstantiated complaints via the daily press, but rather through attention to the elementary principals of literary form. Marvin Barrett '42, President...