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...super-salesmanship, when people's resistance is lowest, sometimes inveigles the bereaved into spending three or four times the deceased's monthly income for a decent burial. Some undertakers, said the survey, fix fees on the basis of the amount of insurance the deceased carried. During a plush year the average cost of burying a body is $410. Said the Federal Council: "Competition in the funeral business is not in terms of price and quality, but competition for the possession of bodies...
Dear Ruth (by Norman Krasna; produced by Joseph M. Hyman and Bernard Hart) is a sure-fire popular comedy about the young, exploiting an amusing (if familiar) situation for comedy, farce and romance alike, and framing it in the fat plush of family life. A teen-age brat named Miriam Wilkins (Lenore Lonergan) has long and lushly corresponded-in the name of her older sister Ruth-with a young overseas flyer. Suddenly the flyer (John Dall) turns up, all set to marry Ruth-who is all set to marry someone else. To soften the blow, Ruth (Virginia Gilmore) agrees...
There would be no free tickets to the viceregal audience for India's princes in New Delhi this year, though all other preparations for it had been made. In the narendra Mandal (Chamber of Princes) the two high-backed plush thrones (for the Viceroy and his wife) had been dusted off. The red velvet Victorian armchairs (for India's princes) were all in place. The heavy Mogul tapestries had been hung from the high marble walls. The thick red carpet had been duly swept. India's princely rulers, each entitled to his salute of guns, should soon...
...more will the cotton-and-cardboard stays bulge in the wrong places, snag up in coils where curves should be. There will now be unlimited steel for buckles, hooks,, studs; rubber for suspenders (garters); bone for busks (rigid frontal supports). For foundation and trimmings, there will be lace, plush, velvet. Britain's long-suffering women, plump from their starchy wartime diet, hailed the new order in corsets: it would uplift both midriff and morale...
...last week. The new season opened with less than its usual quota of mink and diamonds, with slightly less than its usual quota of artistic quality, but with a record quota of enthusiasm. The newly prosperous, aided and abetted by soldiers and sailors on leave, not only jampacked the plush and gilt auditorium but indulged in ecstasies of applause. In fact, during the second night's Don Giovanni, indiscriminate applause became such a problem that Conductor George Szell had to shush his audience with threatening gestures...