Word: schoolgirlisms
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...doing about 20% apiece - 200-odd soapmakers scrapping for the rest. Chief competitive weapon: advertising, for which the soapmakers' bill was a cool $40,000,000 last year. It cost C-P-P alone a good $8,000,000 to remind its Palmolive Soap buyers to "Keep That Schoolgirl Complexion," buy its 432 additional toilet items. Of that sum over two-thirds went into radio: Gang Busters, Myrt & Marge, Dale Carnegie...
...main defect of The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex is that it is not tragic. Until the very end, Elizabeth's insistence that Essex can save his head merely by sending back her ring makes the drama seem as unreal as a schoolgirl's tiff, the decapitation just a bit of a royal whimsey. Partly this is due to Author Anderson's original conception, partly to the neurotic bounce with which Cinemactress Davis scratches, claws, snarls and romps her way through the repetitious love scenes, mopes and moons through her my-manic depressions...
...Popular 36-year-old Glenna Collett Vare, who, still playing a superb game-although golf clubs are now secondary to her two children, her bird dogs and her shotguns-was eliminated in the first round of match play by a schoolgirl named Marion Brown...
Decked in bunting, schooled in her curtsies, excited and nervous as a schoolgirl, Canada last week anxiously awaited the most important event in her life since Wolfe landed with his Army under the bluffs of Quebec 180 years ago to wrest the country from the French for Britain. George VI, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, Ireland and of the British Dominions Beyond the Seas, King, and his Queen, Elizabeth, were coming a-visiting-the first sovereign visit in Canada's history...
...story is in the title. Katharine acted as a child, as a schoolgirl, in art theatre groups, in stock; at length-and ever more triumphantly-on Broadway. As a neatly blown-up scrapbook of her career, I Wanted to Be an Actress is acceptable enough. But beyond that, the reader draws a blank. Either Katharine Cornell, in her devotion to her profession, has lacked time to study things and people or, having done so, she is resolved to keep mum. Dozens of names, from Greta Garbo's to Alexander Woollcott's, from David Belasco's to Orson...