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...Satin Slipper--Harvard Film Archive, part II only...
...wear jackets and ties in the dining halls, and women weren't allowed in the undergraduate library in Harvard Yard. Now mattresses were pushed together on the floors and even the toilets were co-ed....What an anachronism the Radcliffe dorms now seemed, with their genteel 'sitting rooms' and satin settees...
...into a Moorish palace: gold chandeliers draped in white leaves and red streamers, the ceiling of the 50-ft.-high ballroom covered with shimmering silver and gold spangles like the fringes on a flapper's dress. That night, like a magnanimous feudal lord, Khashoggi, in a gray-and-black satin tuxedo, greeted his guests with kisses on both cheeks. Servants trooped into the ballroom carrying great silver salvers of lobster thermidor and pheasant with apples. For the children, there was a magic show featuring live doves, as well as hand-painted Cinderella-like carriages for them to ride around...
...Francisco, then spurns a marriage proposal from the only man she will ever truly love in order to nurse her feeble grandfather through his final days. A saint? No, only a Danielle Steel heroine, traveling through life with a stiff moral code and a wardrobe of backless satin dresses. Throughout her 20th book, the author honors the great Late Show tradition: in Dodsworth (1936) Walter Huston sighed to Ruth Chatterton, "Did I remember to tell you today that I adore you?" In Casablanca (1942), as the Nazis marched on Paris, Bergman asked Bogart, "Was that cannon fire...
...undergraduates who haven't planned so far ahead, Looks, 40 Brattle St., sells a variety of satin and taffeta dresses for about $85. "I kept the formal in mind when ordering fall clothes," says store owner Judy Armell...