Word: petticoats
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...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...
Woman's World (20th Century-Fox) is a petticoat version of Executive Suite, with the big job depending this time as much on the wife as on the man. The waspish corporation boss (Clifton Webb) summons his three top district managers; the best man & wife team will get the vacant general managership. The three nervous couples show up: an ulcer-ridden, self-made man (Fred MacMurray), at odds with his wife (Lauren Bacall); a tough, reticent Texan (Van Heflin) and his full-bodied, social-climbing mate (Arlene Dahl); a family man from Kansas City (Cornel Wilde...
...soon there is the usual thrashing about in the undergrowth, and rather more than the usual slithering of crocodiles toward dainty feminine morsels. And when Heroine Grain says for what must surely be the thousandth time in this kind of picture. "I can make a bandage out of my petticoat," even the lion who is about to eat her looks...
...crossed fingers during the pastor's long prayer on Sunday mornings. Teddy played bear with Baby Quentin and assorted small fry, pouncing on them with such energy "that he tore all the gathers out of [one little girl's] frock and both buttonholes out of her petticoat." When Teddy became too violently playful, wife Edith, no "Patient Griselda," intervened. Edith was a childhood friend of Teddy's and a lifelong love. Her standards were Victorian, but she knew the business of being mother and running a household, and when she spoke up, Teddy knew the moment...