Capes Take Center Stage In This Winters Evening Wear
Evening wraps trend toward wool and velvet capes in long and hip lengths with embroidered yokes. Designers feature jewel encrusted details, appliques, and Persian influenced embroideries on mink and sable fur capes. Pageant like outfits from Rio showrooms inspire shows of rose moire gowns with black velvet capes.
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Copacabana Palace
Rio Janeiro
Paris
London
Norman Hartnell
Rich
Union
Slender Princess Coat With Capelet and Bows
A new coat silhouette appears on the fashion horizon. The slender princess line coat features a pert capelet with novel trims like hand tied yarn fringe and wide velvet rib bon pleating. Edgings and bandings dress the jaunty cape, signaling an upcoming cape-coat trend.
Lingerie Neckwear Elevates Plain Black Dress
The vogue returns to simple black frocks enhanced by large pleated sheer white or lace collars. Rhinestone buttons add sparkle, tying black and white tones with subtle allure.
Luxurious fleece coats with fur collars gain winter trend
The article notes fleece coats as a major factor in medium price sports coats with a trend toward luxury fleeces featuring fur collars. It highlights vivid dye colors like gold, green, and fuchsia and mentions white and off white shades, suggesting wear with gay print frocks at winter resorts.
Rhinestone Embroidered Slippers and Beadwork Styles
Evening footwear emphasizes rhinestone embroidery or beadwork on slippers and pumps. New nail head studded shoes emerge for less formal occasions with sparkling accents and jet beads.
Zebra striped velvet accessories tease chic season look
The article notes zebra striped black and white velvet turbans gloves and matching bags as smart bold accents for outfits. It advises pairing with black dresses and suggests DIY patterns for gloves hats and bags available in pattern service stores.
Three Generations of the Marshall Fields in Chicago
A survey of the Field family's impact in Chicago covers Marshall Field I’s mercantile empire, the Field Museum, and Field III’s Chicago Sun. It notes jobs created, wealth generation, and ongoing national influence through education and industry. It also recalls Dr Hal Orr’s wartime dentistry career and a broad call for factual government information.
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Chicago
Marshall Fields
Field Museum of Natural History
America
Marshall Field I
Marshall Field III
Chicago Sun
Hal Orr
Colorado River
Grand Canyon
Cuba
Aguinaldo
Philippines
Orr
AEF
France
Paris
Two Faced Woman Banned Amid Celebrity Reactions
The National Legion of Decency bans Greta Garbo's Two Faced Woman and Archbishop Spellman condemns it, with cities following suit. Hays office approved the film, while industry notes recall The Constant Nymph and Ready Money projects. Barbara Stanwyck supposedly coins the line Whats buzzin cousin in Ball of Fire.
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National Legion of Decency
Greta Garbo
Archbishop Spellman
Hollywood
Will H. Hays
Barbara Stanwyck
Howard Hawks
Barbara
Brooklyn
Filmmakers Move to Sierra Nevada for Bell Tolls Shoot
More than 120 technicians and actors have traveled from Hollywood to a high mountain site at 9,300 feet in the Sierra Nevada for the Bell Tolls production. Technicolor and long shots are now possible due to favorable snow, echoing scenes in the novel.
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Hollywood
Sierra Nevada Mountains
Purkey changes name before Hollywood screen test
Donivee Purkey pursued drama through high school and college, earned a Paramount talent scout's attention from a college play, and went to Hollywood for a screen test. She plans to appear in The Fleet's In under the name Laura Lee.
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Donivee Purkey
Paramount
Hollywood
Laura Lee
Texas tennis champion Jim Brown signs with Paramount
When Gilbert Roland Philip Reed Errol Flynn and other Hollywood lights enter the annual motion picture tournament next spring they may regret Paramount signing Jim Brown who now plays the romantic lead in Out of the Frying Pan Brown is Texas tennis champion
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Gilbert Roland
Philip Reed
Errol Flynn
Paramount
Jim Brown
Brown
Texas
Two Radio Queens of Courage Featured Actresses
Radio's Woman of Courage highlights Esther Ralston and Enid Markey, two leading women who built fame in early cinema and radio when studios used strange machinery and earphones. Ralston was famed for her beauty and Markey for her striking presence.
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Radio
Woman of Courage
Esther Ralston
Enid Markey
Meet the People cast growing toward Hollywood fame
If you are a star of Meet the People you are headed for Hollywood. Virginia O'Brien and William Orr already signed for the movies and Betty Wells rounds out the trio nabbed by Metro for camera work.
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Hollywood
Virginia O’brien
William Orr
Betty Wells
Metro
Photographers crown 1941s photogenic stars
Errol Flynn gains notoriety with New York news photographers. Roosevelt to broadcast December 24 from Mutual during National Christmas tree ceremony. Bob Hope and Rita Hayworth named most photogenic stars by Hollywood news photographers.
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Errol Flynn
New York
Roosevelt
Mutual
U. S. Army Signal Corps
Army
Bob Hope
Rita Hayworth
Hollywood
Christmas Day in American History Marks War and Peace
A historical survey traces Christmas Day events from 1776 to 1814 including Washington’s Delaware crossing and Trenton assault, Shays' Rebellion, Texan independence, Mier expedition, Doniphan's Bracito fight, Fort Sumter signals, and the Ghent Treaty ending the War of 1812, illustrating how Christmas shaped conflict and diplomacy.
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Republic
George Washington
Delaware
Trenton
Hall
Valley Forge
Massachusetts
Shays
Daniel Shays
Mexico
Thomas Jefferson Green
Houston
Ampudia
Mier
Robert Anderson
Fort Moultrie
Fort Sumter
Charleston
S. C
Sumter
John Quincy Adams
Albert Gallatin
James Bayard
Jonathan Russell
Henry Clay
Great Britain
Ghent
Belgium
Quiz for Britannica Masters and Historic Terms
A Victorian style quiz lists eight questions on British history law poetry bridges weapons and language. Topics include the star chamber the meaning of menage a calligrapher accuracy one fourth of a barrel and the renowned point a minute football team coach.
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Star Chamber
London Bridge
Answers to trivia list from historic quiz page
The page lists eight items including an ancient high court without a jury an indicating phrase a household an acrostic the Thames mongooses handwriting a firkin and fielding H Yost.
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Thames
Fielding H. Yost
Gift ideas for service members cigarettes and tobaccos
An advisory piece promotes Camel cigarettes and Prince Albert tobacco as top Christmas gifts for service members. It notes surveys at military camps show Camel as preferred cigarette and Prince Albert as the leading smoking tobacco, with local dealers offering Camels in two gift wraps and Prince Albert in pound tins or humidors.
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Prince Albert
Army
Navy
Marine Corps
Coast Guard
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