August 19, 1927
Hollywood
Hollywood
You jazz-age dames sure make life tough for us workingmen! Oscar Smith, veteran bootblack at the Paramount Studio, has been compared by the Times to no less than a modern Rembrandt.
In order to operate a modern shoeshine stand, you see, Oscar’s had to stock an uncountable number of brushes and equally innumerable paints to match the dizzying spectrum of colors that’ve come across his stand of late. Heck, with the basket-weave sandals, multileathered and multicolored pumps, snake and lizard slippers flying past him all day long, he should be getting an Oscar™ of his own!
Here, Nancy Phillips is offering up a pair of head-scratch-worthy three-toned suede and velvet slippers. Don’t worry Oscar, Old Man Depression is on the way!