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...rest he simply sat, waving, plainly conserving his strength after a week of excitement and strain that would have exhausted many a younger man. His car moved slowly through a rain of colored cloth in the garment district, through new barrages of paper on Fifth Avenue, and on at last back to the Waldorf-Astoria. There for a few days he shut himself away from reporters, crowds and flashbulbs. This week in Chicago and Milwaukee, more parades, salutes and ceremonies awaited the conquering hero...
...Wholesale (20th Century-Fox) waters down and sugars up Jerome Weidman's merciless novel about the rise of a thoroughgoing heel in Manhattan's garment center. In the film, the heel has been transformed into a hellcat (Susan Hayward), still greedy and pushy, but with as much talent as guile, a conscience to catch up with her treacheries, and the sheen of Fifth Avenue instead of the flashiness of Seventh...
...Dailey) and an expert "inside man" (Sam Jaffe) into a manufacturing partnership in the $10.95 dress line, cons her sister into putting up the money for her stake. Eager to climb the garment center escalator from dresses to frocks to gowns, she double-crosses Dailey by making a tricky deal with an unctuous department-store tycoon (George Sanders). But when the time comes to leave her partners bankrupt and give Sanders his price (payable in his bachelor quarters), the tigress melts into a woman with a weakness for long-suffering Salesman Dailey...
...story of Manhattan's frantically competitive Seventh Avenue, the movie is no truer to life than it is to Weidman. But the picture shrewdly cashes in on the superficials of the garment-center scene, slightly altered for Hollywood slickness and stitched out with some sharp dialogue. This background, plus Michael Gordon's spirited direction, Actor Dailey's breeziness and Actress Hayward's fire, brighten the old scenario about the ruthless career woman who is redeemed by the love of a good...
H.L.U. representatives have investigated the union an company positions in the organizational strike of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union against the bra company, and have reconsidered their original, immediate support of the "traditionally liberal cause...