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...Baker on Velvet. Newton Diehl Baker, discussing technological Unemployment in Manhattan last fortnight, declared: "The advantages and gains which come from machinery have no right to be all velvet to industry unless they are velvet to society. Industry has no right to take till the gains that come from this rapid substitution of machine process for human hands without bearing a substantial part of the consequent dislocation of the human element which it causes...
Amazingly below the standard of the classics to which he has accustomed the public every year or so, it dresses him up in velvet lounging coats, British sack suits, exotic pajamas, and tailcoats, equips him with an effete but worldly-wise valet, shows him in modernistic apartments, offices, and on board ship, pursuing a Bebe Daniels who has dyed her hair blonde for the occasion. He is a market operator of incredible riches and naïveté who has never taken a drink or run after a woman until a friend makes a friendly bet at a party...
...returns to her husband, son and daughter after 20 years. She finds her son in love with a model, her daughter in love with her seductive artist, her husband in a quandary. The final unraveling of all this is perhaps overlong, but splendid are the queenly gesturings, the three velvet dresses of Actress Cowl; the noble rascality of Leon Quartermaine as the painter...
Libby Holman, backed up against a black velvet drop, performing economical, graceful gestures with her fingers, ably ululating an English importation called "Body & Soul." Rear-Admiral Fred Allen, attired in Antarctic haberdashery, lecturing before an incomprehensible hodgepodge projected on the screen ("the base camp"), explaining that his expedition has discovered and claimed "not ten, not 20, but 100,000 sq. mi. of brand new snow for the U. S." Also Fred Allen wondering if he whistled in his sleep: "When I woke up this morning there were four dogs in bed with me." Twelfth Night. Perhaps because the works...
Jean Charles Worth-Square velvet fans and leg o' mutton topped satin gloves. Black ermine muffs. Fur hems on jersey skirts. Evening dresses of gold lace...