Word: mannequins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dapper, delirious Catalonian placed in one window an old-fashioned bathtub lined with black Persian lamb and filled with water, from which three wax arms arose holding mirrors. Pensive before the tub stood a wax mannequin clothed in green feathers, with long, bright red hair. On the walls, upholstered in purple, small mirrors were fixed here and there, and narcissism was further indicated by narcissuses floating...
Neither better nor worse than Hichens' average two-a-year, The Journey Up is the snob story of a mannequin whose social ambitions make a moral and financial wreck of her surgeon-husband. It is a good example of nearly automatic writing. Its only discernible purpose is to keep Author Hichens' income at about $25,000 a year and enable him to lead the comfortable cosmopolitan bachelor existence to which he has become accustomed...
...like "scab" or "fink") in attempting to keep non-strikers and customers out of the stores. Before leading department stores-the Emporium, the City of Paris, the White House-pickets sang Solidarity and It's Not Cricket to Picket (from the hit labor revue Pins & Needles). Pickets played mannequin in new fashions, glistening coiffures. J. C. Penney Co. supplied its pickets with comfortable, low-heeled shoes. But by week's end, the new style strike had produced a crop of arrests, some old-style violence. Most notable: Picket Lulu Darling, somewhat mauled in a scuffle in front...
...provides happy, healthy Sonja Henie, whose previous cinema roles have differed only in the hairline shadings of her skating routines, with a new medium of self-expression: clothes. Functioning as an employe of a Manhattan department store, she is sent to Plymouth University on a semiprofessional basis as a mannequin to promote the sales of winter sportswear. This device supplies most of the story motivation in My Lucky Star, since the Henie wardrobe arouses the jealousy of her less fortunate classmates. It also permits Miss Henie to model a collection of cold-weather creations which female cinemaddicts are likely...
Happily enough, the co-feature, "Mannequin," is also good. Joan Crawford, cast to type as a hard-working tenement girl, and Spencer Tracy, a human, two-fisted boss of the waterfront, set out to prove the highly dubious proposition that a girl, madly in love with one man, can marry another for money and then proceed to forges the first in favor of the second. One has the impression that the authors changed their minds several times in the course of writing the story; but it does have the great virtue of novelty, and, in addition, provides opportunity...