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...home in Paris, the Duke of Windsor dressed up in a velvet jacket and kilt and entertained his friends by singing Getting to Know You from The King and I. Among the enthusiastic guests: onetime Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles, and Count Valdemar of Rosenberg, the King of Denmark's cousin (who encored the Duke's song with an exotic solo dance...
Like Victoria at her first Parliament, Elizabeth II has not yet been crowned. Her crown was borne before her on a crimson cushion by the Marquess of Salisbury; a coronet of diamonds and pearls took the crown's place on her brow. A velvet robe caped with ermine hung from her shoulders, its 6-yd. train supported by two page boys. At her left walked her husband, Philip, who foreswore the traditional trappings of a Royal Duke for the dress uniform of a naval commander.* He guided Elizabeth to a spot just before her throne and stepped down...
...girl, loves-girl, loses-girl theme of his famed silent movies. But Chaplin no longer plays the tramp with the cane, battered derby, brush mustache and oversized shoes. In Limelight he is a dapper, though slightly seedy (and in heavy stage make-up rather repulsive) clown in spats and velvet-collared coat. Only a few reminders of the old tramp remain in a couple of music-hall sequences...
Most important of the new middle-definers is the cinch belt. Strictly speaking, the cinch is a flat, rather wide, belt of almost any material--from humble grosgrain to velvet and fur--with an uncompromising elastic backing which allows the wearer to breathe a little while it nips her waistline to its smallest possible circumference. "Cinch" will probably become a generic term, however, for any belt playing a prominent role in costuming, including the classic brass-buckled leather belt as well as the shaped belt which tucks in at the waistline and spreads out to cover part...
...loud, sustained wolf whistle has risen from the nation's barbershops and garages because of Marilyn's now historic calendar pose, in which she lies nude on a strip of crumpled red velvet. Uneasy studio executives begged her last January to deny the story. But Marilyn believes in doing what comes naturally. She admitted she posed for the picture back in 1949 to pay her overdue rent. Soon she was wading in more fan letters than ever. Asked if she really had nothing on in the photograph, Marilyn, her blue eyes wide, purred: "I had'the radio...