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...Gloves); and Colonel Philip DeWitt Ginder, 46, commander of the U.S. 6th Regiment in Berlin, whom she met at a cocktail party on a visit there two months ago; both for the second time (her first husband was Ward Morehouse, Manhattan drama columnist); in Danbury, Conn. Matron of honor: Neighbor Gladys Swarthout...
...Manhattan dressmaker Herman Bergdorf in a little gaslit shop on lower Fifth Avenue, soon bought into the business with $15,000 borrowed from relatives. One day, Goodman helped make a special suit for Bergdorf's sister, who was private secretary to Mrs. William Goadby Loew, a prominent society matron. Mrs. Loew admired the suit, spread the word among her friends, and Bergdorf Goodman was made...
...Another customer spent days at Bergdorf's buying piles of clothes before a trip to Europe. When she got to London, she cabled frantically that she was short of clothes. Would Bergdorf's please send her 24 more outfits, in beige, grey, black and brown? One matron delighted in buying $60 Bergdorf hats for her dachshund; another regularly bought ermine capes for her granddaughter's doll collection. For years, one of Bergdorf's steadiest customers was an aged woman who bought a custom-made burial dress once a year to be sure that...
Perhaps the most flagrant example of how poor is "Streetcar's" direction is in the final moments, where a doctor and a matron take Blanche to an asylum. The scene lost most of its power when these two characters walked in looking like something out of a freak show and provoked a loud guffaw from the audience...
...time he must share it with Actor Walker, who makes the psychopathic strangler both sinister and perversely amusing, and two unfamiliar (and hence doubly effective) supporting players: Laura Elliott, as Walker's hateful, empty-headed victim, and Marion Lome, in the role of his mother, a slightly potty matron who dotes on her son and innocently manicures his nails when he wants his hands properly groomed for their homicidal task...