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...some areas," said Barber Bert Oakley, "my new shop would scare the trade away." But not in fashionable Westwood, a Cadillac's spurt away from Hollywood. With searchlights, clouds of soap bubbles, and a few cinemactor customers (Allan Jones and Pat O'Brien) to give it atmosphere, the grand opening of "the world's swankiest tonsorial parlor" last week drew thousands of spectators...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Figaro in Wonderland | 8/18/1947 | See Source »

What they saw through the purple glare of the neon signs more than warranted Oakley's remark. In the yellow-floored, blue-walled shop were 20 barber chairs upholstered in pastel-blue leather. Behind them stretched long strips of mirror topped by germ-killing lamps. Above each chair, from the sound-proofed ceiling, shone a spotlight. On the small pink-&-blue mezzanine in the rear there were two more chairs for children, surrounded by giraffe-shaped palm pots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Figaro in Wonderland | 8/18/1947 | See Source »

Varsity golfers finished fourth among a field of 18 competitors for the New England Intercollegiate team honors at Oakley Golf Course in Watertown Friday, as Bill Rickenbacker racked up a three-above...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rickenbacker Paces Golfers | 5/20/1947 | See Source »

...that the possibility of gaining the Eastern championship has vanished for the Varsity, it can concentrate on the New England Intercollegiate tournament next weekend at Oakley Country Club in Watertown...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Golf Team Loses Chance to Shoot At Eastern Title | 5/12/1947 | See Source »

Hold, Enough! In Oldham, England, Actor Antony Oakley, playing Macduff in Macbeth, charged with his dagger, laid on with such vigor that Macbeth was laid up with a five-inch abdominal wound. In Toulon, France, Baritone Fernand Lagarde, carried away by the third act stabbing scene in Bizet's Les Pecheurs de Perles, was carried offstage with a two-inch abdominal wound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 17, 1947 | 2/17/1947 | See Source »

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