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Equipped with satin-covered furniture, shower baths, phonograph, radio, cinema, telephones; loaded with clerks, valets, maids, detectives, railroad police, extra train crew and personages; guarded at bridgeheads by riflemen; awaited along the line by panting engines and peering populace, a Presidential train started for Key West...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Coolidge Special | 1/23/1928 | See Source »

...President & Mrs. Coolidge attended the wedding of Miss Barbara Hight and Charles Davis Hayes, at the bride's home in Washington. Except for relatives and military aides there were no other guests. Mrs. Coolidge wore claret-red satin, black slippers, black...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Coolidge Week: Nov. 14, 1927 | 11/14/1927 | See Source »

Called to witness, Miss Lewis, famed onetime chorus girl who is now an opera soprano, said she had been cold. All day she had been sitting in the studio in the scanty beads and satin of Lady Giulietta. The slinky costume of a courtesan is not designed for stage waits. "Chilled, depressed, exhausted," she complained. Gallant, Mr. Adams sent for brandy. Grateful, Miss Lewis drank. Warmed, she sang. Ousted, Mr. Adams is suing for his salary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Nip | 10/24/1927 | See Source »

...Coolidge went forth into the marts of fashion and bought $1,000 worth of gowns. The sales persons described her taste not merely as "suitable" but with the more glowing adjectives "smart," "gay," "distinguished." ¶ President and Mrs. Coolidge, the latter in emerald green chiffon and a white satin wrap with white furry collar, helped make the opening of the new Fox Cinema Theatre, largest in town, a gala affair by attending. Legislators and diplomats aplenty were in the house, but what most pleased President William Fox of the Fox Film Corporation and impressario Samuel Lionel Rothafel was the President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Coolidge Week: Oct. 3, 1927 | 10/3/1927 | See Source »

...Satin Woman (Mrs. Wallace Reed). The heroine is a Mother. In order to save her daughter from a cabaret sheik, she vamps the man herself. This is doubly effective strategy, for it succeeds in recapturing the interest of her own husband, who has been straying toward a passionate brunette. When the entire family has been corralled, Mother gives up the fashion shows and night clubs to return to the hearth. Thus the dumpling of Virtue is set, though not obtrusively, upon the hotcakes of Hollywood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Pictures: Aug. 22, 1927 | 8/22/1927 | See Source »

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