26th Jun 2008
Book covers used to be awfully subtle
Men wanted just one thing from her.
Wonder what that one thing was. Dance lessons? Stock tips? Cookie recipes? The secret to how she keeps that dress from falling off?
looking back at “mental hygiene” of a bygone age
26th Jun 2008
Men wanted just one thing from her.
Wonder what that one thing was. Dance lessons? Stock tips? Cookie recipes? The secret to how she keeps that dress from falling off?
In that awful musical Sweet Charity starring Shirley MacLaine, “dance hall hostess” seemed to be little more than a euphemism for “prostitute.”
Of course, I would hardly refer to a student at a dance school as a “dance hall girl,” but who knows what the cover has to do with the actual pulp romance inside.