Word: glamor
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Synthetic Glamor. But not all perfumers made easy millions by debasing their wares. Most of the old-line houses were reduced to using synthetic scents, which do not "stay" as well. But such houses as Guerlain, which colleagues in the trade call the "perfume emperor," fiercely resent even a hint that they had adulterated their wares...
Several Hollywood experts wanted the world to know who is responsible for all that glamor. For instance, when Ingrid Bergman first came to Hollywood, she had to use an onion to bring on the tears. With the help of the make-up men, she had learned to use a menthol inhaler. One technician recalled that he had successfully taped back one of Alan Ladd's ears (the other one is all right). Another had taped both of Frank Sinatra's ears to minimize his "handle-cup appearance...
Since Victoria's day her Empire has come on troubled times. The Crown itself has lost its last remaining ounce of direct political power.* But what the Crown has lost in weight, it has gained in glamor. Princess Elizabeth, who will be the next wearer-unless her parents, most improbably, have a son-shows no more sign of greatness than the young Victoria did. She is not required to be great; she is expected to be gracious...
This is the second novel by Manhattan Glamor-Matron Nancy (The Manatee) Bruff, who is the wife of a Wall Street investment counsel. She tried to do some writing in Connecticut, but the birds "screaming on the windowsills" drove her back to Park Avenue. She finished Cider from Eden in a maid's room. It reads as though it had been started in a high-school study hall and completed in a girls' locker room. Miss Bruff used to have Publicity Man Russell Birdwell do her advertising, but no more. "I have had enough personal publicity," she explains...
Even some of the tiresomely conventional things about this picture are unconventionally done. Most of the cast, for example, are rich, well-dressed and nice to look at, but the observation of this glamor world is sharp and disenchanted...