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...even come close to reflecting the sentiments of today's musical comedy. But even in their own livelier era, the lyrics were part of one of the most improbable musical hits ever to reach the stage-the 1937 show, Pins and Needles. Produced by the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, P. & N. opened with an amateur union cast in Manhattan's 300-seat Labor Stage Theater, and to the garment workers' astonishment, it ran for four years. Now, once again, it seems to be a surprise hit. Columbia has brought out a 25th anniversary recording...
...musician's fingers. The mother (Rosita de Triana) simmers in sad-eyed frustration. The son (Robert Gentile) tries to do an honest job as a grocery boy, but street gang punks torment and entangle him. The daughter (Greta Margos), a lissome, raven-haired beauty, gets work in a garment-factory loft, but the piggish foreman makes her earn her overtime pay with bodily favors. Her "promotion" is to become a call girl for out-of-town buyers. As the shady manufacturer who employs her, Kenny Delmar is uproariously funny with his seduction pad and patter...
Filled Gap. Brooks came to the garment trade from Syracuse University, wangled a job with a second-rate house that specialized, says Brooks, in "hopped-up, jazzy sportswear-the kind of place where they put rhinestones on Irish linen and the sales staff called it raindrops." For a year he designed similar monstrosities and studied the ups and downs of the business...
...split-level houses on a 500-acre tract in Mount Olive Township. N.J. Besides the houses (average price: $15,000), the congregation plans to build a mikveh (ritual bath), a shopping center, a matzoth bakery, a rabbinical seminary and a synagogue. A number of Hasidic Jews who operate garment factories in lower Manhattan plan to move them to a tract adjacent to their new homes. Ultimately, the move to the suburbs may cost $20 million...
...reflex action, an Atlantic City convention of the 447,000-member International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union unanimously elected diminutive David Dubinsky, 70, to his eleventh three-year term as president. Having brought the union from threadbare poverty (32,000 members, a $1,500,000 debt just before he became president) to silken opulence (assets of $425 million) in 30 years, the pudgy potentate of the cloak-and-suiters saw no reason why he shouldn't keep going. "Some people are old in their young days; some people are young in their old days," said he. "I feel...