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Growing Pains. Once the cast was chosen, there was no telling whether they would stay suited to their roles. Costume Designers Monica Howe and Lorna Hillyard would buy real '20s duds from thrift shops, then spend 50 times the price tailoring them to fit the kids, who, of course, just kept growing. During the eleven weeks of filming, trouser cuffs were constantly being lowered. The original Blousey literally grew out of her part. Two inches taller than Leading Man Scott Baio, she had to be replaced by her understudy, Florrie Dugger...
...Victorian family with a light humor. Clarence Sr. is a bull-headed Wall Street man who presides over his well-trained household with an almost military authority. His insensitive tirades send everyone from his wife to a motley procession of household servants into teary blubbering. His penny-conscious "thrift" two sons into the less-than-respectable patent medicine business. Too proud to even kneel in church, he taxes the patience of the most accommodating clergyman...
...kilowatt saved is a kilowatt earned, and energy thrift should not have to be its own reward. So believe officers of the Seattle Trust & Savings Bank, who are now offering reduced-cost loans to customers who open new checking accounts and buy well-insulated homes, upgrade existing ones or purchase fuel-saving cars or boats. The buyer of a house that scores at least 15 points on an energy-saving rating system devised by the bank (five points for an efficient furnace, another five for ceiling insulation), can qualify for a 30-year mortgage at 8.5%, about a point below...
...imagination is never quite free: whether in the Bible or in fairy tales or in great works of fiction, money is held in contempt. The great callings are not trade or commerce but the state or the military or the church or scholarship. The great legendary virtues are not thrift-and its explosive extension, profit-but courage, kindness, faith...
Still, nickels and dimes would have to be parceled out carefully. One way to save money--thrift, thrift, Horatio--would be to remount The Winter's Tale, which had entered the repertory only at the end of the 1975 season. The sets and props were all made and on hand, the costly costumes sewn and in storage, the incidental music composed and its parts copied. In addition, a number of the players were free to return and already in full command of their roles...