Word: makeups
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Playing Fields. In Roedean's cloistered life, the girls have few chances to meet outsiders, are apt to give an impression of embarrassed uppityness when they do. Miss Tanner has sought to keep Roedean unsnobbish by banning makeup and jewelry, allowing the girls little pocket money and decreeing a Spartan, uniformed existence. As in most girls' schools in Britain, the girls wear identical Navy jumpers much of the time; they get what individualism they can out of choosing the colors of their suppertime djibbahs...
...chooses its lucky girls. Stephens has had such attractions as 75-year-old Maude (Peter Pan) Adams as a dramatics teacher. Talent scouts-who are called "admissions counselors"-give prospects the onceover, report (among other things) on their "comeliness" and home-town popularity. Stephens prefers not to waste its makeup, clothing and budget clinics, its courses in nutrition and home management, on the hopelessly homely or the misfits...
Even more beautiful is the leading lady, France's Viviane Romance, who resembles an alert Linda Darnell and has been treated to a full Hollywood glamor makeup, including false eyelashes...
With members of the Council Constitution Committee still engulfed in controversy over the actual elected-appointed ratio of Council makeup, the question will be left to a straw vote of the student body immediately after Thanks-giving...
...could crowd inside. Her laughter boomed so lustily that stage managers feared it could be heard in the auditorium. In the old horse-&-buggy era, Wagnerian divas like Johanna Gadski and Lillian Nordica had expected even the stagehands to wait on them. Traubel insists on putting on her own makeup, wig and costumes, because "being dependent is a luxury you shouldn't allow yourself...