Word: chiffon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Shaggy Dog (Buena Vista) of the title is a real, live, winsome, mop-footed old English sheep dog named Chiffon (real name: Sam) that opens doors and dresser drawers, climbs ladders, sits commandingly at the wheel of a speeding car, and even gargles before going to bed at night (on the sound track, anyway). Unhappily, Producer Walt Disney tells his shaggy-dog story so doggedly that he soon runs it into the pound. The story: a Renaissance ring that has the power to put a human being into the body of an animal falls into the hands of a teen...
Died. Frances Williams, 57, blonde, willowy, five times wed (and divorced) Broadway musicomedienne of the '20s and. '30s (Artists and Models, Life Begins at 8:40), who dazzled crowds with her throaty versions of civilized blues (her trademark: a wisp of chiffon tied to one finger), retired after a sporadic later career of road shows and TV guest shots; of cancer; in Manhattan...
...Singer Pat Boone's show, where Guest Bea Lillie was introduced as "the imitable." Bea showed plenty of mileage for an older model: she poked her thimble nose through big fluttering fans, slipped off the piano a time or two, tripped over her long chiffon scarf. With limp, well-scrubbed adoration, Pat said: "You sure deserve the reputation you have," to which worldly-wise Bea replied: "Thanks-I think." Before she got hopelessly boxed in a square dance, Comedienne Lillie, 59, and Singer Boone, 23, did a spritely spoof of country music called I Got Tears in My Ears...
Indignantly denying an insinuation that she is 83, Dancer Ruth St. Denis, who will give a series of dance recitals in Manhattan this week, threw a diaphanous lemon-yellow chiffon robe about her once-famed figure, went into a couple of emotive poses (contrition, supplication), announced...
Director Prince's needling inventiveness has also helped make money for Armour, pushed its pharmaceutical and chemical divisions (Dial Soap, Chiffon Liquid detergent, anhydrous ammonia, soluble dried blood for plywood glue, etc.). But Prince wants 89-year-old Armour to diversify even more, recently said: "At Armour we're on the edge of a new era. I'm not selling Armour stock. I'm buying." Billy Prince hopes to usher in the new era himself...