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...dancers wear colorful costumes-silk shirts, dungarees and cowboy boots for boys; tight-bodiced, full-skirted dresses for girls. As caller, Dr. Shaw goads them on with cowboy verses...
...Division: Cinemactress Brenda Joyce's teeth were picked by the Southern California Dental Association as the swellest in Hollywood. . . Warner Bros. insured the beard of Monty Woolley (The Man Who Came to Dinner) for $10,000. The insurance company's provisos : Woolley has to wear a fireproof silk beard snood, smoke through a noncombustible cigaret holder, refrain from smoking...
...dresses are embellished with spangles, bugles, gold and silk embroidery, but not with Parisian lavishness. Reason: the wages of embroiderers were $8 a week in Paris, are $50 a week in New York...
Saks Fifth Avenue (head designer, Sophie): much ado over Sophie's "plastic seaming," and adaptation of Alix and Vionnet's tiny seams and gores which give a gown a poured-on look; a fitted hiplength, fur-edged jacket after Vermeer; men's tie silk for formal dinner gowns; men's sleeve lining for suit blouses...
Crime. In Meridian, Miss., a gunman demanded $10 of a shopkeeper, got $11, gave the shopkeeper $1 change. In Berkeley, Calif., a burglar who knew his current events stole a silk dress, a silk step-in combination, a silk chemise, five pairs of silk stockings, a pair of satin pajamas, and two pairs of nylon stockings. In Indianapolis, a burglar made off with 11?, left his cold chisel, jimmy and shirt...