Word: petticoats
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...bulletin from her builders the Normandie was said to be "now wearing her flannels." Explained these petticoat-minded Frenchmen: "Especially fire-proofed flannel has been found to be the best sound-deadening material with which to insulate each cabin of the superliner between its double walls...
...Petticoat Fever (by Mark Reed; Alfred de Liagre Jr. & Richard Aldrich, producers) starts its merry nonsense when a rising curtain discloses handsome silver-voiced Dennis King (Richard of Bordeaux) lying on a couch in a Labrador radio station talking to his Eskimo handyman (Chinese Peter Goo Chong). Actor King impersonates Dascom Dinsmore, an errant remittance man, who has not seen a pretty woman in the two years he has been in Labrador. He is irritably contemplating the rigors of another long winter without female society when his shanty suddenly takes on the atmosphere of a Long Island week-end house...
Dennis King's excellence as the swaggering handsome baritone here of musical romance a la Vagabond King is well accepted, and now in Mark Reed's "Petticoat Fever," he reveals an unsuspected talent for light comedy. The play itself is a hilariously funny romantic farce which should place a strong bid for the title of this season's comedy number...
Because she loved animals, Mrs. Henderson once paid $25,000 for a canvas entitled Nude Child With Dove, and then tried to force the artist to put the little girl in a petticoat. Mrs. Mary Y. Henderson got it for $100 last week. Old Mrs. Henderson's love of animals again forced her to pay $10,000 for an oil painting of a four-horse brewery hitch by Edmund de Pratere. George Goodacre, local restaurateur, got it for $310 to put in his lunchroom...
Leaving a Los Angeles concert, wily Cinemactress Greta Garbo chose a rear exit. In the alley outside she came face to face with a wilier cameraman. For a moment camera-hating Garbo hesitated. Then, hoisting skirts and cloak, she covered her face, exposed her petticoat, fled straight past the delighted photographer...