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...down to the point: "The theater ought to be a number of handsome things that living itself ought to be in the first place. Is it possible for living or the theater to be these handsome things? Absolutely not, but is that any reason not to give it a whirl anyway...
Billie Burke, who now plays twittery movie matrons, used to be the vivacious, red-haired toast of New York. She earned $1,500 a week, kept a Rolls-Royce for herself and a "nice Packard" for her mother. She lived in a whirl of furs, maids and flowers, and married Follies Producer Florenz Ziegfeld. Last week in Collier's, Billie reminisced about the great Flo and the gaudy...
...whisked through his day in a whirl of callers and scribbled memos, got through work at a rate never before seen in the musty old palace. In two three-hour periods he managed to get in 151 individual interviews. (Grumbled one Ecuadorian: "I didn't have time even to greet him properly.") At 1:30 he passed up Ecuador's hearty midday meal, raided an office icebox for sandwiches and milk straight from one of his own farms, then got to work again. "What, no siesta?" exclaimed incredulous Ecuadorians...
...annual whirl of fall showings last week, socialites, fashion writers and buyers once again filled the Paris salons with silky ohs & ahs. They nodded and buzzed over Schiaparelli's jungle-inspired dinner dresses (trimmed with monkey fur and tiger skin), Maggy Rouff's deep-cut necklines, Jacques Path's tight, shimmering wedding gown (which was pinned together in a last-minute rush, came apart while harpists strummed an Ave Maria...
...pacesetter in the new whirl of the inflationary spiral was a 9% wage hike by U.S. Steel Corp. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Big Steel's Ben Fairless promptly announced that steel prices would have to go up also. Bethlehem Steel Corp.'s Eugene Grace and most of the industry followed Big Steel's lead on wages, and began figuring price increases, too. In addition to the wage increase, the new prices would also have to cover higher coal prices (which added up to $1.25 a ton to the cost of finished steel) and a freight rate increase which...