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Glimmer for Glamor. Because the clothes of movie actresses are the most widely imitated by U.S. women, the Screen Actors Guild urged more stars to set a thrifty wartime style by dropping glamor for the duration. Actresses were asked to wear cotton, to stick to the standardized WPB silhouettes, to go without hairpins, zippers and metal jewelry...
Into her majority and with it some $3,900,000 came Brenda Diana Duff Frazier Kelly, onetime queen of the Manhattan glamor debs, now queen of a triplex apartment with Husband John ("Shipwreck") Kelly. Last week at least two of the newspapers that used to publicize all her doings in café society published the fact that her chief interest now, besides keeping house, is "having a family...
...Glamor Girls. Despite some wishful thinking by the press, the applicants were not glamor girls. Most were working girls, usually not very well paid, or temporarily out of jobs. Most said they wanted to serve their country; some said they wanted to fight Japs. Many came because the women's Army offers security (officer candidates get $50 a month and all necessities-pay is expected to be the same as Army pay), or because all their menfolks are in the service and nothing holds them at home...
Quaker Girl. Author Chase is the end-product of a long line of Quakers. Among them was famed Quaker Author John Woolman, but Ilka prefers her great-grandmother, who was "something of a glamor girl." During the Civil War, Great-grandmother ran away from her children and husband (a strict Abolitionist) and married a Southern doctor. She raised him a family in Florida, and when he died, returned to remarry Great-grandfather. "This," says Author Chase, "seems to me nice going at any time, but in that day and age a truly remarkable feat." Great-grandmother died, age 92, from...
This agreeable use of Studio B was the idea of a jolly scriptwriter named Frances Scully ("Scully-Wully" to her good friend, W. C. Fields), who had little to put her heart into before but a Sunday morning fashion program, Speaking of Glamor. Blonde, plumpish Miss Scully, thinking of Los Angeles' lonesome "soldier boys," decided she could do better than speak of glamor; she could hand...