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Clad in the conventional costume of an English gentleman-striped trousers, black jacket, bowler-Conservative Lord Derby went to a Lone jn hotel to see a preview of 1935 styles for men to be exhibited at the British Industries Fair. Said he, after inspecting the show: "I am already in the fashion. I achieved this position by wearing exactly the same kind of clothes I wore...
...steps of the Throne, Mr. Hipel gave thanks, then stepped out to don the Speaker's black robe and tricorn hat, after which he returned to stand at one side of the Throne. With everyone at attention, back came the Person-Of-The-King, in gold-laced jacket and with jeweled sword, to read the Speech from the Throne-written of course by "Mitch" & Cabinet...
Among relics new and old the armor collectors gathered last week, munching chicken sandwiches and sipping highballs, watched Kenneth Lynch in a dinner-jacket and his craftsmen in leather aprons finish the sword on which they had been working for three days. Moving from one anvil to another (each with a different ring), Kenneth Lynch saw that the blade was drawn, beveled, tempered, burnished; the quillons bent and chased to form a swept hilt and the grip wrapped with steel wire...
...audience. Weaving up & down a runway, the Pasha's wife sang of love in the spring to a tenor in white flannels. The scene was interrupted by a spying eunuch whose voice cracked occasionally. The lover hid in a chest. The Pasha, who wore a dinner jacket and a crimson fez, appeared and sang "There is no ta-a-ble, is there?" The wife replied: "There is none." The Pasha said: "I had for-go-o-tten. We'd no need of one, not having dined here lately...
Antonia Brico is a conductor who, like helter-skelter Ethel Leginska, affects a jacket which resembles an old-fashioned Prince Albert.* She grew up in Oakland, Calif., studied for five years with Karl Muck in Germany. She has conducted successfully in Berlin, Hamburg, Manhattan. Women proclaim her a genius. Men say that she is an excellent musician who has a clean, sure beat...