Word: petticoats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Petticoat Rustle. Not only is the TV western riding hell-for-leather in the ratings; it is turning woman-conscious in an effort to widen its audience. CBS's Annie Oakley frankly aims at showing that the female is more deadly than the male, and on NBC's Frontier, the rustle of petticoats is fast drowning out the creak of chaps. In last week's show, plucky Beverly Garland, though frail, put-upon and pregnant, drove her weak-spirited menfolk and a herd of cattle more than 600 long miles, through drought, ambush and ennui, from parched...
...Cloak & Petticoat Business...
...tinkle and clatter of a London nightclub performance almost a year ago, and sung, not always on key, by a middle-aged entertainer who has been around for some time. Yet, here, in the familiar laryngitic murmur of a voice as suggestive as the rustle of a taffeta petticoat in semidarkness, are echoed moments that have stirred men for as long as a quarter of a century. Among them are Jonny, Lili Marlene, The Boys in the Back Room, La Vie en Rose and the inevitable Falling in Love Again...
...parade. On her way, she stopped off at the National Pencil Factory, where she was employed at 10? an hour, to pick up $1.20 in back pay. Early the next morning her body, ravished and brutally garroted with a piece of cord and a strip of her petticoat, was found in the basement of the factory. Blood matted her hair and her face was swollen and grimy...
...with Salome was the "Dance of the Seven Veils," which was about five veils too long. It is musically insipid in an otherwise brilliant score, and Soprano Goltz, though originally trained as a ballet dancer, did not make it seem any better as she determinedly stripped to her white petticoat. Otherwise, Salome emerged as the great opera it is, its nervous, passionate music brilliantly conducted by another newcomer to the Met, the New York Philharmonic-Symphony's Dimitri Mitropoulos. With his long arms and shiny bald head making him look like a gnome in the orchestra pit, he turned...