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...town and the desexed Russian agent. Ninotchka, with her first three glasses of champagne fizzing warmly underneath her low-cut evening gown, crying "Comrades!" to the "dear French people" in a swanky Paris night club: and a starry-eyed Bolshevik girl back in Moscow burying her face in a satin slip, and begging it for her honeymoon. Again, clever direction has saved the three Russian wheelhorses, Buljanoff, Iranoff, and Kopalski, from becoming a cheap imitation of the Three Stooges, and has made them uproarious symbols of a comfort-loving Russian bourgeoisie squirming under cold Soviet efficiency, throwing their hotel room...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 2/26/1940 | See Source »

Glamours is a shiny satin evening grown which she filled to perfection Miss Jane Laurie settled herself on a divan backstage of the Odd-Fellows Ball in North Cambridge and signed. "A stage career doesn't permit a girl to develop her talents for sincere romance, or any romance for that matter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Young Actress Deplores Poor 'Technique' of Grad Students' | 2/20/1940 | See Source »

...ready for a gasp for the satin gown Oomph Sheridan wears in "It All Came True" so tight she can't sit between scenes." Jimmy Fidler, Hollywood...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRESS | 12/19/1939 | See Source »

...attraction. You put down your money and you get a Cole Porter revue, costumed, syncopated, gagged, and sexed up to the hilt. Ethel Merman and Bert Lahr perform in their best manner, with everything from the fake marble walls of a night-club men's room to the tufted satin of Louis XV's court as settings. Their special brand of humor seems even funnier when its spice is set off against the elegance of the French court...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 11/15/1939 | See Source »

...Shadrach, Meshach, Abednego, three haloed Negroes smiling down at the flames, to Sascha Brastoff's boneless, bulbous, button-mouthed females, Emergence and Timid Maiden (see cut), who look like a pair of praying mantises. Ceramist Brastoff's figures, tastefully mounted on bases of grey velvet and satin, won a sculpture prize. Fit for the flossiest mantelpiece were such lively pieces as Annie Laurie Crawford's Dancers Martinique, Carl Walters' blue Hippopotamus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Mantelpiece Art | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

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