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★ CHAMPAGNE SERIAL OF OUR TIMES.....2nd DAY.......by LEONARD MOSLEY *
Girls 'no one
one would want to look at sideways join a battle of the curves
HE was one of the loveliest girls in the line of Young Ladies in Cochran's Revue -but that morning she looked like a half-starved refugee.
Her face was pale as she high- kicked her way through the re- hearsal of number, and
two minutes before it ended she fell flat on her face in a faint,
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Cochran himself was one of those who picked her up and carried her to the dressing-room.
The COCHRAN STORY
booed or cheered, but never given a lukewarm recep- tion. In 1928 Cochran began a collaboration with Coward that was to make theatrical history.
With Jessie Mat- thews and Sonmie Halc once more
the stars, plus a magnetic
лен
dancer called Tilly Losch, Coward's
revue "This Year Grace" hit the entertainment world- and hit the jackpot, 150.
That year
saw Cochran them declared illegal at the of It was there that he learned she had had nothing but & back on his feet again. He last moment.
But this glass of milk and a biscuit was discharged from bank-
time he made all that week.
ruptcy (one of his closest money. "Never before have associates got a few shill I seen such wild frenzy, 20 ings back out of an invest many painted mouths wide ment of several hundred open in artificial gaiety, so pounds). His revues were outrageous a liberality in beginning to pay their way. the display of the female
it was 1926, the year of the great slimming craze. Britain women All over
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Cochran took a look at his Young Ladies and wail- ed, "Every one of you is flat and uninteresting. No thought, would he Jone,
want to look at them side- ways.
In looking over the possibilities for new ventures, new sensations, new aur- prises, Cochran had even taken over the managership of the Albert Hall and pro- mised to make that "awful mausoleum," as he called it, pay its way.
He persuaded Sir William as Arbuthnot Lane, famed ja society doctor, to draw up diet chart which the at public girls followed feeding sessions, Stars like Tallulah Bankhead, Hermione Baddeley, Isabel shareholders of the Jeans and Edith Day joined institution by organising limb,"
woman
staid,
He shocked the conservative
-the-first-Charleston Ball.
One December night in Over at the rival theatre,
the vast he filled the Empire, Fred and 1926 Adele Astaire were dancing spaces of the Albert Hall in "Lady Be with a wild, madly kicking together
of jazz fiends, who Good," and they incorporat- mass ed a satire on curves into stomped and shrieked their way through the movements their numbers.
of this new dance,
STOMPING- The Charleston Ball was a Makes a profit great success except that, like many another Cochran COCHRAN had enterprise, it didn't make started his cam- any money.
TILLY LOSCH Magnetic dancer she was called
for
It was the beginning of a great and memor- able; but still not pros- perous, period- Cochran. He was still so shy of money that he announced an open- ing in Manchester with not enough money to pay his writers or his stars.
TALLULAH
1926: She joined the sčimming craze.
Advance bookings amounting to £10,000, purely on the Cochran name, enabled him to inance the show and bring it to London.
They Are 1 disgrace to womanhood, shameless, unlady-
ke." said a woman councillor from Barking
hour
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Big money for these gipsies
From Newell Rogers
NEW YORK.
"GASOLING gipsies,"
1,800,000 of them, are rolling over American highways today.
Their ancestors went west in covered wagons to sock their fortunes. These wanderers seek their fortunes in rearmament factories.
Most are industrial workers with their familles. They live in caravans ike year round. now atomic energy worke South Caroline will house 70,- 000 people in its caravan camp.
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They are moi like Okies, the poor white farmers of John Steinbeck's "Grapes of Wrath," who migrated to California in rickaty care.
These gipsies have high wages and full employment. Their caravana bave as many as four rooms, vost from £700 to _£1,700._____ They are often com... plete with fridges, hot water showers, and even automatic dish-washers. Many can hook on to local water, light, and sewer conacations.
Next season the gipales may be unhooked and gone with the wind-to better jobs a thousand miles away.
EXPERIMENTS arc being made with a drug to produce larger and lastler fruit and vegetables.
RUNAWAY 17 year old Giennalee McCarthy Pontikes, who eloped from the home of her oil multimillionaire father Glenn McCarthy to marry the 19-year-old son of
a cobbler, has gone into the all business herself. She is a messenger girl : In the office of a Texas refining company.
TWINS bom to Mrs Barbara Solomon weigh-43b. 11ozs, and are doing well in an incubator. The mother is 15, The grand- parents are 32.
MEAT MARKETS have turn- ed grey, and soon they will be fully black, complains the Super Market
.Institute. It blames controls.
too
A FRAIL LITTLE MAN named Don Gehramann wanted to be a runner. He was told he was too small (8st. 11lb.), slow, and too weak. Now he has won 38 consecutive mile races. The sports writers are beginning to hint that he may become the first human being to run four-minute mile.
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Britain's great miler, Sydney Wooderson, weighed 9xt. 416. when he was beating the world.
A COUNTERFEIT five-dollar note was paid to a bookshop for a copy of "The Dictionary of for Underworld Lingo."
PILLIONS-
"Legs visible up to their Shock the vicar
thighs, racing 40 miles an BY now he had plans to ruin," said a clergyman. for new plays suf-
Things were going well flelent to carry him
Cochran and for Britain was into the thirties. Coward writing him a musical play call- ed "Bitter Sweet." He
Was
The
OUTPUT of goods and ser-
main story in the vices reached £100,000 million
bringing over "Porgy an all- papers at the time recorded in 1950. That is £8,000 million Negro play from New Yorke amazing fight of the Deragove 1940.
nier Xa giant German plane
aboard:
wrote a shocked reporter. –
JESSIE-
To a Britain unworried about which had flown with 126 people With the grin
politics eager to be entertained.
No one thought that it might Cochran's plane had sparkle and LIFE in England, enchantment about them.
one day carry the same weight with the general
In bombs. strike forgotten, was But the number of distractions and untroubled. The that might woo them away from craze for motoring was begin the theatre was growing. ring.
simple
·JIMMY MILLER, aged 10, or Chicago, was always encouraged to "express his personality," He anally did so by taking $32,000 from his aunt, Mrs. Cora An- drews, going to Texas by plane, a frightened And no one, not even Cochran, and then forcing paid much attention to a news taxi-driver to take him 500 miles from Dallas to San Antonio at Item well down the page one There was the new sport of reporting that the New York the point of a gun. You could buy a four-seater greyhound racing-such a pon- Stock Exchange was beginning car to take the family to the beach for £125. A full-length national success that the Govern" to crash.
It was 1829. And to Cochran fer coat for evening wear ment was inquiring into it. kolinsky fut-Was £9, and you Reginald Denny, Miltos Sills, it seemed that he was sitting could buy 50 cigarettes for hai Alice Terry, Harold Lloyd,
crown and matches for a few Laura La Plante,
and Paulino pretty. Frederick were still popular coppers a dozen boxes.
What did the public want as stars entertainment?
But Al Jolson's voice had been
of the Lalking Blm
-(London Express Service)
G-men are now in charge of Jimmy's personality.
WASHINGTON wants to da business with Red China ofter all. Some of Mao's quality bg- bristles are needed for the U.S. Navy's paintbrushes.
hod
of
"Happy Landings!"
paign as a shrewd Cochran didn't despair, publicity stunt, but when While the floor was still Schiaparelli and Poiret, the down he announced a repeat Cochran showed his fair for heard from the screen and the French couturieres, came performance-only this time star-picking and gave the world day over from Paris to join in his Charleston Rail started Jessie Matthews as the star of 2w.cd. the row-insisting that the at two in the afternoon and "One Dam Thing Atter Another."
In those unworried days The gay dancing, a song call- battle of the curves would went on until two next ed "My Heart Stood Still," and the late twenties an uninhibited ruin their new season's morning,
Jessie's impish smile brought Britain was going mad on sport
which
confrmed and getting out more and more fashions-it began to have He had installed rows of
faith in himself.
into the open air. its effect on the public.
half-a-crown-in-the-slot fruit His avid cye for new talent The red flannel brigade were
machines and had not missed the The female outline began gambling
growing shocked at our sew-found free- fame of a young man of the doms and were directing their to fill out and never went so hoped to reap a vast profit theatre called Noei Coward, attacks against a new phenome-
from them only to have whose plays were always being non-the pillion ghi
flat again.
Ergonomics-a word
weariness
ARGONOMICS
Esuppose,
to kill
Was originally a
Now, the Ergonomics Research least effort), Society have more than 60 chemist. members, and in a few weeks' Factorles, as you would time will hold what is modestly expect, pose far more problems described as a Symposium on and far more intricate ones than
la Equipment offices. the Human Factors
must, I that would make a thorough be the most going ergonomist despair.
which
newly named science; for The table
on
the word was devised less machine is set is too high and Design, at the University than two years ago with the my chair is too low.
sanction of Greek scholars
and in Oxford, where thero should have been au- thority in plenty.
About a dozen
people can
Birmingham.
For instance, ergonomists wil prove that to put the zero mark on a gauge at the 9 o'clock
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more effelent. fatigue.
But, unlike students of time. and motion, ergonomists are not The selence was outlined to ERGOS is the Greek?' word
with
by suspicion for work; NOMOs means claim to have been in at the me roughly by one of its viewers
workers The reason, of course, natural laws or surroundings; birth of ergonomics. - Ther founders, a young man named so the total can be defined as were, men and women who were Mr K. F. H. Murrell, who lives is that they are not concerned with the relationship between the study of the natural laws of engaged either in the study of in Capell, Steve and works in cats of work and rate of pay
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relation to Industrial eficiency Westminster that is concerned
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