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...last major fashion edict-that hair simply must be upswept-overcame the temporary setback to the hairdressing art caused by the wide acceptance of the medieval pageboy bob, a hair fashion that needed slight and infrequent attention...
...International Master Ladies' Hairdressers Association and the Coiffure Guild of New York, supporters of the upswing hair style, attacked Greta Garbo's pageboy bob as a cultural lag, called it "wholly unsuited for wear by her or by the women of this country...
...Arthur Augustus William Harry Ponsonby is not a name like Rosie Rosenberg. His father was private secretary to the late great Victoria, Queen and Empress, who made "dear little Arthur" her pageboy. From knee breeches and gold lace Mr. Ponsonby grew up to be a Liberal politician, but his conscientious objection to the World War caused him to be ostracised by all his friends and he was forced into the Labor Party. Last week, as one of the staunchest intimates of the Prime Minister, Mr. Ponsonby, M. P., was created Baron...
...Frankfort. Ky., small Fleming Thompson, aged 13. put on a top hat and canvassed Kentucky's House of Representatives for an appointment as pageboy. Voted down, he applied to the State Senate, which last week voted that Fleming Thompson might be personal pageboy for Lieutenant Governor James Breathitt provided he continued wearing a top hat throughout the Senate's session...