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After deep thought, Hollywood Art Director Emrich Nicholson concluded that glamour girls look their best only against exactly the right backgrounds. For example, he said, Betty Grable shows up fine in a curlicued Louis XV setting, and Jane Russell seems to "go with a haystack." Nicholson found one exception: Ava Gardner. "With that face and figure? Heavens, she'd stand out in front of almost anything...
...office high above Fifth Avenue, when more jobs rolled in, e.g., a television maker wanted him to draw up sketches for a new line of cabinets. "Fine," said Loewy. "I spent $2,000 on my own set and it hasn't worked right since I bought it." From Glamour magazine came a phone call: How about an article on theater design? "Wonderful," said Loewy. "I've been waiting for a chance to tell everyone what's wrong with theaters." Then Loewy paced nervously through the various cubicles where his associates were planning new designs for everything from...
...superlatives, statistics and beauty contests (to find the country's most beautiful 15-year-old) Lux Radio Theater this week celebrated its 15th anniversary. The oldest and most popular drama show on the drama-heavy air. Lux Theater is billed as being "synonymous with all the greatness and glamour of Hollywood." Producer-Host William Keighley (rhymes with Seeley) calls it "good, solid, clean entertainment" in which "nothing is ever used that might offend...
...Pipe & a Pint. By mixing equal parts of glamour and inoffensive blandness, Lux Theater has won a weekly audience estimated at 30 million. The devotees have heard 500 top Hollywood stars broadcasting skillfully warmed-over movie scenarios. For the anniversary, statisticians reckoned that it all added up to 650 shows, 39,120 pages of script, 14,344 musical cues and 68,460 sound effects (including an imitation of a peacock's cry* by the late George Arliss...
Over the Top. The trouble is: sex appeal has a way of being repealed by the passing years. Joan Crawford, for instance, who is reportedly 41, has a gem-hard glamour that has worn pretty well for 20 years; now her line is a sophisticated fortyishness, and the public is not clamoring to buy.* Nor is the well-preserved charm of Claudette Colbert, Barbara Stanwyck, Bette Davis or Marlene Dietrich causing the box-office stampedes that it could set off ten, or even five years...