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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...comedy concerns an impoverished French gentleman, a refugee from the Revolution, named Paul (Pierre Fresnay). Turning adventurer, he picks up a virginal chanteuse, takes her across the Channel to Brighton. It is 1811; Brummell struts at Bath; in & out of prim Adam houses parades the world of fashion; Guardsmen wear tight breeches; George IV is Regent. Paul's plan is to marry off his Melanie (small, saucy Yvonne Printemps) to a highborn tripper, thereby assuring himself a pension. The Regent himself asks Melanie to a souper à deux. The choleric Earl of Harringford offers her protection and a house...
Present-day boys at the large, smart, modern school in the gentle hills of mid-New Jersey are inclined to view the Johnsonian pranks as childish. Their chief stunt is to make "rhinies" (new boys) wear special caps, roll down trouser cuffs, keep off the grass. They stop classes every morning for a 15-min. session of crackers & milk. Lawrenceville enrollment has grown from 60-odd to about 500 and a Student Council rules the campus with a firm hand. It may expel any boy for cause, may even recommend the dismissal of a master. Popular in the Midwest, Lawrenceville...
American college men have a sure instinct for improvements in apparel that add to the smartness of the things they wear. A typical instance of this style-sense was the nation-wide approval of the Kover-Zip fly by "best-dressed" seniors at the great universities from coast to coast. Here are some of many comments on this invisible seamline closure by college men who were selected as "best-dressed...
Nearly 100,000 peasants brought up the procession's rear in such native costumes as few countries besides Jugoslavia can produce. Her peasants of Turkish blood still wear the fez now banned in Turkey. With them strode Bosnians in scarlet dress and Herzegovinian mountaineers carrying their rifles upside down in mourning. Montenegro sent her Jugoslavian Cossacks...
When Turner began to appear in this gaudy get-up before he had made any real name for himself as a speed flyer, Cy Caldwell wrote prophetically in Aero Digest: "A pilot with nerve enough to wear that uniform and kick a half-grown lion in the pants is bound to come in first eventually." And last year Roscoe Turner began "coming in first" until today he is the outstanding speed pilot of the U. S. His rivals sneer at his clothes, at his brash statements that he is "a bit of a hero to the boys of the country...