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FASHIONS AND FANCIES
Housekeeping Questions Answered By Screen Stars.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16, 1927.
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The intimate lives of the screen stars have always been a source of interest to the public, and for those who would like to know the details of the housekeeping of the players, the flawg questions and answers have been arranged by First National players
Questions.
1. Do they (First National play. ers) Hve in a hotel, studio apart- ment or home?
2. Are they, interested in their housekeeping arrangements?
3. Do they order the food served chem?
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Do they ever prepare food 5: If so, what is their favourite food for this?
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Are they famous for serving. and id so, what their favourite menu?
7. Do they, like every other mortal. have ocensional longings for certain dishes, such as corned beef and cabbage; steak and chions; or any other ordinary or extraordinary food?
Answers by Colleen Moore, First National Star.
1. I have my own home. 2. Decidedly! I love to plan menus, although I do not always do
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3. sedom have time to plan "or Laupervise each meal, but I've trained the cook so well that only um occasional hint as to my varying appetite and palate cravings in auf- cient. Then too, sometimes I like surprises:
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4. Some of my friends insist that 'prepare Southern dishes for them, and I often have great fun doing
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6. Sweet potatoes (cancies) and pork (roast, with mint and raisin sauce).
6. I can't claim any particular fame in this line. In general simply try to cater to the tastes of any group of gucets that I'm serv Fing.
7. I have a weakness for garlic But of course I seldom eat it, out of consideration for my fellow film players. particularly leading men. Answers by Mary Astor, First
1.
National Featured Player.
At home, with a cook who knows real home cooking.
2. Very much so,
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4, Frequently. And it's not out of a can either. Italian spaghetti iq. my favourite, but I always" put tomato sauce in it, which le the Mary Astor variation.
Natalie Kingston
Mary Astor
to have company. Usually we have I don't ordinarily indulge in Alao, country style dishes, as it's a at times, I simply must "atep out" Roust for dinner at a Chinese chopsuey "different" thing, to do. fowl, Irish potatoes and brown place, to satisfy a craving for chow gravy, a variety of vegetables, cern mein and other dishes of that sort. Answers by Doris Kenyon, First un'the cob and other rustic delights like that. Pumkin pie, of course!
7. Usually it's for some very spity or highly seasoned dish, which
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National Featured Actress.
1 live at home, and have a cook, but eat "out" frequently for variety.
2. Just. to the extent of keeping things running smoothly. There's an art to housekeeping and cooking and serving that I appreciate and try to maintain.
3. Usually I do order the food to 1. do so more often when I am eating glone than with.
The Bank of France has received and accepted its first cheque trans-be served. mitted by wireless.
It was sent by radiograph, and guests, for I eat lightly and my per- was the completion of a transactionsonal tastes are varying.
4. Occasionally I make salads whereby a dress, designed in Paris
in the morning, was worn by the and desserts, and other special The favourite number in in the dishes.
my kitchen repertory le a salmon customer in the evening United States. ·
A design for a new gown, finish-salad with sweet 'and pour sauce, ed by 11 a.m., was photographed by served cold. noon in Paris, and a copy was sent by air mail to London.
Two hours later a radio picture of the design, complete in every de- tail, and with a few hundred words descriptive of cloth and trimmings, was wirelessed across the Atlantic. It was only the work of a few hours
to produce the finished article.
GIRLS WHO SMOKE.
So general has smoking become with English women that many of the train carriages are now marked with a star for "Non-smoking," in distinction to the word "Smoking," which has distinguished the car riages for years.
But that there are plenty of non- amoking women is evidenced by the fact that a Non Smokers Society has been formed, to uphold the rights of non-smokers generally.
There are 26 aims and objects of the new society, and includes the following:---
To endeavour to prevent any increase in the number of thea- tres and music-halls where smok- ing is permitted..
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5. Answered in number four.
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Start out by filling in the words of which you feel reasonably sure.. These will give you'a chus to other words crossing them, and they in turn to still others. A letter belongs in each white space, words starting at the numbered squares and running either horizontally or vertically or both,
(The solution or the above crnas-word puzzle will appear in to-morrow's issue along with a new erosa-word. -puzzle,)
"HEEBIE-JEEBIES.""
The Charleston and the Black Bottom" will have to take a back seat now that the Heeble-Jeebies have invaded the ballroom.
The new dance made its first ap- pearance in America, of course, and combination of
6. No. When I do serve, it's is said to be a usually a New England dinner of shivering, hopping, and stamping, It would seem that any- some sort, not because they're my resembling war dances of the Red weakness, but my cook's strong suit. Indians,
For in-body who tries to keep warm on a 7. I should say so stance, I can't eat alligater pears hitter cold day would be doing the very often, but I frequently get a very latest ballroom steps!
When I serve The six steps of the beebic- craving for them, them, it's often as a salad, halved, jeebies are intended to represent with the seed but not the skin re the evolutions of a witch doctor be-
in fore the human sacrifice. moved, and the filling inside place of the seed, a la stuffed green pepper.
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Salada, particularly those com- posed of uncooked materials, particular favourites of mine. One I like very much is composed of prunes stuffed with marshmallows and pecans or walnuts, with mayon naise dressing..
Answer by Natalie Kingaton, First National Player,
1. Mother and I live in az apart- ment, but we have our own cook.
2. Very much 80.4
3. Yes-all of it. We collà- borate on menus; the copk merely prepares the food.
4. Often. The cook has two days per week off, and mother and I alternate on preparing the meals Also, we often cook To ensure proper provision for those days. non-smokers in hotels, restau-Spanish food for the guests, with I am of rants, and ten-shops, also in the help of the
Spanish ancestry, and naturally we station waiting-rooms.
like some of the dishes of old Spain, and their Mexican variations. and 5. Enchiladas, tortillas, other Spanish dishes.
To secure legislation against the indiscriminate scattering of cigar and cigarette ash in public rooms, vehicles, and highways. The society intends to issue u badge which will be worn by ita members, to employ speakers and lecturers for urging a diminution of But I the smoke habit, and to establish a plan monas very carefully when I'm permanent headquarters in London,
G. See question 4.
6. Not famous, I'd say.
WHO? ME? AIN'T IT.
BAD ENOUGH
AT HOME?
6. Among our own little circle, perhaps, for Spanish dinners.
7. Sometimes I have to have a gustatory spree on sweets, although for health's sake and to keep down weight, I don't eat much of them.
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