Word: sackful
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When Christian Bérard died last February at 46, Paris lost its most fashionable artist. A scraggle-bearded, sack-bodied man who wore his jackets soiled and kept up his trousers with string, he rated in Paris as a top arbiter of good taste in women's fashions...
Neither Wise nor Switzer has yet earned the permanent assignment as guardian of the initial sack. Switzer will probably start today, but the race is still unsettled, according to Coach Samborski...
...afternoon will feature, besides the out-of-season race complete with a Marryin' Sam at the finish line, what is described as a "Schmoo Hunt--finders keepers," hiking--"a free schmoo for every blister," a tug of war with Wellesleyites, a softball game with Simmons girls, sack races, and a 75 cent picnic supper, followed by a "songfest...
Jerry Kilty, remembered for his Falstaff of last year, is back once again with a "tolerable deal of sack" by his side, and, of course, the combination is infallibly amusing. He plays Stephano, and is very ably matched by the Trinculo of David Andrews.' Together, the two romp and stomp about the stage, like two mad clowns--or is it two children inebriated only with springtime--and when joined with Caliban, it's a real howl...
Columnist Elsa Maxwell rated first place on Hearstling Cholly Knickerbocker's annual list of the world's worst-dressed women because "she could put on an exquisite creation by Christian Dior or Jacques Fath and look as if she were wearing a sack of potatoes." Trailing Elsa came sexagenarian Musicomedienne Mistin-guett ("Continues to display her gams . . . has refused to adopt the new look"), Alice Roosevelt Longworth ("Doesn't have the time to bother about such things"), Signora Rita Togliatti ("Not born with good taste"), Cinemactress Greer Garson ("Draperies and dresses are not the same thing"), Gypsy...