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...year-old Odorizzi, this was the last straw. Last week he quit and went off to his Wisconsin mink farm. A day later, Vice President Arthur Romer, after 32 years at Ward's, also quit. Then Avery got the resignation of Vice President Albert O. Steffey, retail store boss who had been with Ward's for 21 years. Steffey went home and opened up the bottle of 1811 brandy he had been saving for the occasion. With their departure, Sewell Avery snapped: good riddance; all three had been part of the "very real conspiracy...
Mother Is a Freshman (20th Century-Fox) is a featherbrained variation on one of Hollywood's most cherished myths: that U.S. Moms up to the age of 40 should be able, at the drop of a mink stole, to look and act like their teen-age daughters. The plot, as silly as a schoolgirl's endorsement of a beauty soap, is just about as inventive...
...Toronto schoolteacher named Betty Ritchie. Little Betty Ritchie succumbed to his line and his dark good looks, moved into his apartment. To Betty, the life they led was idyllic; Dennis insisted that she keep her $40-a-week job, but he gave her a wedding ring and an old mink coat...
...nickel cigar was back in Manhattan and the $1.99 shirt in Kansas City. A basket of groceries which cost a Des Moines housewife $4.19 a year ago could be bought last week for $3.29. The papers advertised sales in everything from bed sheets to mink coats...
...Stage (MARCH OF TIME) takes a brief look at both sides of the brassy street called Broadway-the mink-coated, white-tied and marquee-lighted side, and the darker lanes leading backstage to rehearsals where the work is done in drudgery, wild hope and exaggerated despair. Following the career of a young actress (Margaret Garland) who lands a minor role in the current hit Anne of the Thousand Days, this documentary shows Stars Rex Harrison and Joyce Redman going through rehearsals. It also takes a quick look at Director Jed Harris in the process of preparing Red Gloves, starring Charles...