Word: soaps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Newest "Coronation novelties" on sale in London are cakes of bath soap bearing sculptured busts of King George & Queen Elizabeth in bas relief. Hairbrushes similarly adorned were offered, also a bathroom gadget holding side by side a bust of His Majesty and a toothbrush...
...received exceedingly favorable reviews in England, where it ran last year. A high spirited up-to-the-minute comedy in Gilbert and Sullivan style the projected play satirizes many phases of modern day life as typical of both here and abroad, including such things as Fascism, night clubs, and soap box oratory. The female parts will be handled by Radcliffe girls...
...story of children of divorced parents, their hardships, and their attempts to reconcile their elders is not a particularly new theme--and it can be deadly if the soft soap is laid on too thick. Yes so charming is the naivete of the three smart girls who plot to get rid of "The other woman" and pave the way to reconciliation between their parents, that an air of reality is lent this plot which otherwise might well have been left in moth balls...
...young Vassarline, awaited high in hope a much-promised Valentine package. When the postman came, however, he was at the movies. But his roommates and friends saw their duty and did not flinch to do it. They signed the receipt, opened the box, and substituted four cakes of Lifebouy Soap for the contents previously therein...
Died. James Joseph Couzens, 88, one time soap manufacturer, father of Michigan's late Republican Senator James Couzens; of pneumonia; in Los Angeles...