Word: mannequin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hard to Get (First National). Although this mild anecdote about a mannequin who tries to see life as her customers see it has been told before in various forms, it has been directed lightly enough to avoid being offensive and even at times to be funny. When a handsome fellow in a long shiny car picks up Dorothy Mackaill she tells him she lives on Fifth Avenue and gives him the number of a house that as inevitably happens in these cases turns out to be his own. Hard to Get does not rise to any heights of originality...
...Colors, brighter, with contrasting red and black in the ascendant, plus many new shades: pewter, menthe, lucifer, Capudne, Lelong blue and green. . . . 9) Fads red hair, tennis trousers for women, pajamas at luncheon.* naughtily named knee length nightskirts: "Dream of Me," "Alarm Clock," "Midnight Tonight," "Turn Your Head. . . ." French mannequins this year have dropped exaggerated posturing, are seeking to resemble la type Americaine introduced in 1924 by Jean Patou when he imported a dozen U. S. young women and an English brunette now famed as the actress June. Nephew Erskine Gwynne of General and Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt promptly snatched...
...Taft's young niece Elinor Herron, also came into the public eyes last week, when she paraded at a Chicago fashion show in silk bloomers and a smoking jacket. It was her debut as a mannequin. Miss Herron, versatile, has studied ballet dancing in Paris intends to be an architect...
...character displayed before a polite background, all very smooth and able, obeying all the ordinances which she had laid down. It is only when she writes travesties upon a style and a subject not hers, as in the mock Saturday Evening Post story of the professor and the mannequin, that her facility shows its skeleton. And a very good skeleton...
...Mannequin. Some time ago $50,000 was posted by Famous Players for a prize scenario, the same to be serialized in Liberty, and Fannie Hurst came first. This is the picture. It does not seem to be a desperately original invention, dealing as it does with a girl (Dolores Costello) stolen in babyhood and brought up as a model in a dress shop. She kills someone, and the matter of the death penalty for women is discussed in detail. The picture is exceedingly well directed by James Cruze, and played so well by Alice Joyce (the mother) as to eliminate...