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Perhaps any actress, seated in a Shack's kitchen and wearing a dirty silk kimono, can win an audience's attention by lamenting in a voice of deepest vulgarity the many servants in her family's old home, calling God to witness her misery now that she has "lost her voice and her French." Evelyn Varden in this play does it better than most actresses could. As Cecelia Jobes, she drills into her three daughters the idea that the sex act is an abomination, that they will best serve themselves and their mother by eschewing men. working...
...guidance," was supposed to show the slightest color deviation in the subject. There was a contrivance intended to calibrate facial contours minutely. Giant rollers ground grease paint to remove the tiniest speck of granular imperfections. From "the largest powder bin in the world" the powder was meticulously sifted through silk gauze by means of an electrical shimmy appliance. Guests beheld, in glass cases, the raw materials of cosmetics, labeled in spurious Latin. They browsed in the Max Factor Research Library in which there are not only bound volumes of the American Journal of Dermatology and Syphilology but also old copies...
...President of the Republic, sad-eyed M. Albert Lebrun, the Ambassadors and Ministers of the European States and the Papal Nuncio in his silk skirts gathered at the Sorbonne last week to see flicker and jiggle on a screen three strips of streaked and yellowed cinema film, each only three yards long...
Whitman and Goodhue scuttled across the Freshman goal line on tricky triple reverses to tally many Sophomore markets. The flashy Varsity silk pants which the Sophomores were overcame the hardy first year men. Lidgerwood, Freshman substitute, missed intercepting every pass the opposition threw except one, and one more than one occasion made it possible for the second year men to score. Points after touchdown were not attempted...
...sing with him soon learned that they must submit to a strict routine which precluded all roughhousing, all carefree yelling, kept them at practice as much as seven hours a day. When they were ready for concerts Director Lippert bought them bright snappy costumes: for sacred songs, red silk cassocks, white silk cottas, ruching for their necks; for secular songs, long blue serge trousers, white satin blouses, red pleated sashes. They arrived in Manhattan last week with a spiritual adviser, two tutors, a wardrobe mistress and two trained nurses who see that they change their underwear each day, feed them...