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Low Necks Definitely A Distraction
Hollywood.
There'll be no more low-cut lm director's gowns in
one
pictures. He wants the audience and the leading man-to puy attention to the story.
cover up
Director George Waggner firmly ordered Patricia Neal to that plunging neck- Ino, As long as he was direct- ing her, he said, he wanted people to see her face.
"I've scen neckline styles go from low to high and back aguin during a great many years os an actor and director," Waggner said, "I've decided, after care- ful thought, that low-cut gowns are definitely unfair to the lead- ing man.
"The leading man has plenty to think about, such as camera angles and dialogue and charac- terisation, when he's in a love scene without being distracted by a revealing gown.
Distracts Everybody
"And not only does a plung- ing neckline keep a male stor from doing his best work, it ocus the audience from realis- ing that he's in the scene at all; The neckline steals nl the scenes.'
Miss Neal has distracted such screen heroes es Gary Cooper. Ronald Reagan. Richard Todd and John Garfield, but Waggner is protecting John Wayne, her, co-star in Warners' "Operation Paclile," Hereout, Wagner said, she'll have to find some- thing else to wear.
"Pll admit that decolletage is so popular now, and has been so many historical popular in periods, that Pat may have trouble finding gowns that are cut high," Wagner said. "But we're asking her to do her best.
"I don't think an actress
WOMANSENSE -
Brilliant Short Story
By ALICE ALDEN
A
FOR dancing delight and provocative beauty, the finely handled short evening dress of fine fabric has few equals, İt is blithe and youthful, geared to the times, and perfect for all but the most formal of events. That is, if it is similar to this one, designed by Howard Shoup of Beverly Hills who ces this type of evening dress, Fashion of dusty plak lace over rust- far cornu bray'n taffeta has much back interest, Details are a deep scalloped neckline, and a spray of roses above the back sweep of the skin.
Beauty Equipment
By HELEN FOLLETT
Most girls wil agree that For your ly-white hands you lipstick is the prime essential in wouki need a lotion, nail polish, make-up. Be sure to take time polish remover; a nail white selecting a new colour and pencil to pass under the eaves always match your nail enamel of your coral finger sheaths; a
cuticle to the Hp shade.
cream; curved, needle- Women's first interest is the point scissors to snip nway that is the chief orna- hangnails; emery boards. Looks lipstick;
adornment as far as like a big order, doesn't it? Yet ment of should be judged by the cut of the complexion is concerned, all of us have this equipment, her collar anyway. A Jol of Then you should select a pow- and find the items necessary, good love scenes have been der to match your skin, a rouge Brushes! Two for your hair played without the assistance of compact to provide synthetic to keep your tresses clean. Two decollete dresses.
blushes. You would
find out that for your teeth. One for your a little
eye make-up
use with soap creates complexion to "The leading man, keeps his the mysterious look and you'd suris to keep blackheads away. mind on business, the audience go in for that in a big way Brushes for your eyebrows and keeps its mind on business and. mascara for the lashes, lauselous frankly, so does the director."-blue shadows for eyelids, United Press.
Ferayon for the eyebrows.
"Your Sewing Scrapbook
Mary Brooks Picken
The "Any-Fabric" Dress-
A Versatile Style
fabric. Draw a curved underarm from B do E and F, as dotted lines show.
G and H are at the upper cor. ners. For back neck, measure down from G on fold 3" for I and 5" to right for J. K and L are each 6" from H,
Draw a line I to J, J tɔ A, A to L. L to K-this for neck and shoulder lines. Cut on drawn
lines. Cut single thickness of fabric A to B.
Join shoulder seams and left underarm, using a * pressed- open reem. Stitch right under- arin seam from B a distance of approximately 6"-this provid hg for a left-side seam zipper, Basle skirt to waist. Try on, Make sure neckline is becom ing. sleeves a good lunga.
Lashes.
Add to these colections the ercams and lotions for keeping the complexion lovely.
Braid edging, velvet piping, knitted crest lace fill-ins and fringe trimmings are the latest beauty devices American designers have invented
For The Sweater Girl
house in America
SWEATERS, knitted in and tor, edging on the small whore cost
small whore costume sweaters in teert are' the collar and hipline pocket flaps. sizes are displayed. Dress de-
latest autumn idea in a handknit New York collec tion. One of the scooped
is neckline "sweaters " styled with hand-crocheted
metallic lace over knitted it buat hands,
she
sleeves.
There is a awenter for every
for
Two more new ideas are in the tails and fancy trimmings and dress with pocket flaps posed now flavour. to
a group of fow on the hipline (long torso highly styled sweaters adapted
and the
from French originals. Little plain- suggestions). knitted skirt with a narrow white pique collars and bows "bad" in contrast are the soft accents on navy suggesting a fly front,
wool
aweaters with low-cut
necklines square
and deep silk ribbon, There is a
corn silich, and "scallop
bands lace separato metallic
are a few of the trimmings peplum to
go with the applies to pockets and flaps and occasion ranging from the quil- sweater and the separate, in several,
collars of
of the dresses and suits, ted cardigans for sportswear to
the silk ribbon skirt. The same trimming running above
designer uses decollette
and, creaing
cutout types style is also shown with below the waist en either side. Perfect school styles register metallic lace over wool jer- This is a line of basle hand in two.. red, white and blue knit types, strong on one-piece novelty striped cardigans. dresses us well as two-piece sult Fringe trimming is the special types. There is good choice in point on another easy-to-wear high-buttoned und
notch cardigan. collar silhouettes, with interest in the bands cross in front and are-ac-
suits-most in proved Vivid red and
green felt etitch
or trimming. This year cented with a gold crest on a Where are number of lovely white turtle neck slip-on. Felt stylised vine-and-flower slit- ches for texture and pattern.
appliques also are the theme of n tennis kweater with croes racquets and contrasting cir- COMPLETELY new feeling, cular balls also on a white car- in sweaters is witnessed at digan,
Bey.
Unusual trimming bouches such as volvet piping, sequins, beadwork, and knitted crests add individuality to many of the hand-dresses In silk ribbon, One of the knit and hand- woven suits and pullover suit tops, for example, has a cuffed horseshoe neckline with a de- corative crest knitted into the attached Oll-in plece.
Wing collars, slashed roll col- lars and lacy yokes dress up many of the basic types.
Additional
highlights in- clude: a hand-woven
wool twedd sult with yoke
and
of back Jacket knitted in novelty stitch, using the same yarn, the lacy- Looking knitted dress in ombre ribbon, with scalloped neck- line and hemline; the short- sleeved ribbon Jacket with pica- ted pepluan; the sleeveless, V-necked
"sweaters" with handwoven silk fronts and wool jersey backs. (The latter were originally styled to be seid do men, but look like a perfeet women's item, too.)
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A
BOYS AND GIRLS
MAGAZINE********
Magician Was Having Trouble
PRAID trimming is one of the K
ideas another sweater frm uses to bring hand-knit dresses and sults high into the fashion picture for autumn. One "shirt- Waist"
type, for
example, has
What To
-He Couldn't Seem to Make His Megic Work- By MAX TRELL
NARF and Hanid, the shadow-chlidren with the furned-about names, found Mer- in the Magician pacing up and down in his room. Merlin was wearing his long robe with the suns and stars and moons on it, and also his bigh pointed hat. The expression on Merlin's face, however, wasn't happy.
"I'm hungry," he said "but I can't seem to get what I want. Something is wrong with my
Look For In magic today."
A Blanket
By ELEANOR ROSS
WHAT do you demand of a
blanket?
Well, it must
Match Mates have warmth, the blanket must
T-2
Sweater, bag and pumps.
By GRACE THORNCLIFFE
J
be amply lurge to allow for cozy tucking in about the shoulders. It must be light in weight, never too, heavy, no matter how cold the weather. And it must wear well to return dollar for dollar of durability the money pended in its purchase. edges and the bindings must
The
8:29:
Knart asked Merlin what ho meant by saying that something was, wrong with his magic to- day. Merlin uttered a grumpy
Merlin fat more than ho noise and said: "Well, I'll show
ho asked for. Now I'd like a glass of kind of shrub or tree with lots you. milk. In fact, I'd ke several of green leaves, growing right glasses of milk,"
"Go to the ice-box and get some," suggested Hanid.
Magic Words
in the middle of the room.
"Now just look at this!" Merlin exclaimed, grunting with dis- pleasure again. "I ask for tea and I get this!".
"What is it Mr Merlin?" Knart said, looking at the strange walking around it
Merlin shook luis head. "Magicians never go to ice-boxes tree and ex-
for anything. If they want several times. something, they just say some magle words and they got what- ever they want. But that's my rouble today. I don't seem to be able to get what I want. Just watch-
not become shabby, nor the nap harden to a felty surface,
How can you buy blankets that will satisfy you, on these points? First of all, in the matier of warmth, irrespective of the material of which a blan- ket is made, its resistance to cold depends upon the air spaces between the fibres of which it is woven. Colton blankets, when new, retain heat well, but laun- dering reduces the spaces be-
in
tween abres, so that the warmth gradually decreases, while properly cared-for wool, the amount of winter comfort re- mains undiminished for a long time.
Wool and Cotton
#
#
"Pots and pans Wool and silk
Let me have
Some nice fresh milk!"
The next instant there was
シ
Leaves of Troo
"It's a tea-tree, that's what it is! Tea is made from the leaves of this tree. But before you can make the tea you have, to take the leaves off, dry them, Toll them, roast them, then put them in boiling water. It would tuke me all day to get a cup of tea. Pooh!"
"Why don't you just ask for
a puff of smoke in the air, right something very simple-like a
in front of where Merlin stood When the smoke cleared away, Knarf and Hanid wero astonish- ed to sco large black-and-white cow standing in the middle of the room
There wero also a twee-legged stool, a milk bucket und a tall empty glass near the cow.
"You see," sighed
alleo of bread," said Hanid.
"All right. I'll just ask for a slice of bread-
"Hands and feet Eyes and head, Let me have
Somo nloo fresh bread,” There was a puit of smolte. MerJn. When it cleared the tea-tree "The magic is not working out had vanished, But Knarf and right. I ask for milic and I get Hanid and Merlin gazed with
n cow, along with those other amazement at a large clump of things."
cow.
wheat growing, right, out of the carpet.
There are wool and cotton mixtures that seem to suit many shoppers, and again this is matter for individual prefer- ence.
Look at fact tags and know just what you are pur- chasing Take corner of
"Oh!" Lay 2 darts each sido centre
woollen blanket and squeeze it
exclaimed Hanid, "You're supposed to milk the front and centre
Lightly. If it is alive, new wool, back, as In-
"Look at that just look!" it is soft and springy. It will dicated on diagram, to take up
You have to sit on the cried Merlin. "I ank for bread any excess fullness in waistline.
feel full in your hand, Theriool all the milk bucket with and I get wheat I'll have to Decide skirt length. Remove
strength of the fabric fibro is of milk, then pour yourself come cut it down, get out the wheal MAKE it of taffeta, satin, crepe
Importance, for it is the milk in the glass, Mr Merlin" hemels. ary nem, grind them Any of these dress. Stitch waist and sldrt 10- jersey.
gofrer. Stitch waistline dars.
ength and resistance to pull of
Mr Merlin said that was too into flour, then bake the four Iabrics is quite all right for this Put in dress zipper according to of importance, ready to make an the blanket will wear. If woven
DEPICTED, here, is a sweater the abres that determine how much trouble for a magician into bread and cut myself. & ›vory versatile aty. Buy the instructions provided with the impressive costume with a stark of short or broken fibres, the
"Pll have tea instead," he said. slice! I won't do it!" 60" width
"Lakes and oceans zipper,
white dress or a white flannel blanket is a poor buy, no matter Poade and sea, We..usd economical jersey.
Put hem in. Turn hems skirt. It is of navy blue cash-how low the price. The tensile The tube is 66 which would in bottom of sleeves and slip mere embroidered at the neck-strength of the warp of length- make alcoves 3′′ longer and skirt stilch to place,
Ine and mid-arm with while wise threads should be a mini- 127 wider, since you would uro true bias facing from pieces cut for the front closing.
For neck finish, cut a 14" brubi White buttons are used mum of 30 to 40 lb. and of the two tube lengths split for it.
A rich filling, or crosswise, from 20 out at neck. Stitch this on right combination is the theme of this 30 lb. Buy two skirt lengths plus side, mitering facing at four matching band-big consisting To satisfy yourself in some gone and in hor place was a magician never didi one wálat length-239 to 3 yds, points-centre front and back of white
opaque plastic and respects on the strength of the ampio
and both shoulders. Clip cam. dark brown semi-transparent fabric, pull it in opposite direc
Turn facing to wrong alde.
and
Let
havo
Poor 'afraid to ask for even a glass
Mr Merlin, Ho was
of
water for fear that, & well Some nice fresh teal" :
would spring up in the middle Again thero was 'n puff of of his rODITI, He Anally had to smoke, in the air. to
When it go to the foo-box' which, as he cleared away, the cow was himself had "sald,
Straighton fabric. Measure off Stitch free edge and catch limonk tortoise shall, it la a your forefinger from or Rupert's Climbing Adventure-14
shoulder to waist plus 4: down at shoulder seams. Uso a mirror on the underside of the
smart oval shape, and there is a your undor
neath, against the taut surface. Tear or cut off. Remainder of ribbon or novelty belt, or make id. The handle isigld. The The result will show the tou piece is cut in half crosswise, one from a 24" crosswing strip niso matching pump is of white sile strength" in practical appli aciyagca ocamed together for of fabric.
1) Love 4′′ placket, opening at
loft side, Top of skirt is gathered
G
with two rowa so it can bo
drawn up to fit blouse.
in
For blouan, if 50′′ fabric used, bring bolyage edges to gether evenly, so there is a fold. Tát each side,
A la 2a down on pèlvage edges, #Bl1⁄2 armhole plus 2*-below A Draw Iino: straight-acTYSS froth B for C and D. Measure La from both C and D on this Hae 34 bust plua 2" for 2 and F.
Draw in gəlini strnight{y down" from both. A and E to bottom of
25
*Karmhole +2′′
E
/ Bust
linen with brown leather for calion, if not in terms of strep and, hoel. It is a likely choice for spectator sportswear.
J
On Fashion Scene
pounds.
The Weave --Much of the durability.OL.4) blankot depends upon ie wenvo; Hold a single thickness to the Ught, and if there are irregular patchus of thinness, then you kribw that there has been ONE BIG Improvement in the blanket is likely to "stvo" Retraining of the fibres and that winter fabrics, la a wool Jarwin such places. Or grap that is beautifully washable. It small bit of the nap: between is used in ons ploge dresses as your fugers, and see if the Abre well as separates, and a lovely will break when you attempt to in white and pasteis,yakula lift the weight
of the entire
AT HOME almost every blanket by this elny plece. important colted Jon in the town gaming bindings, tweed cost or sult usually in binding is well; fastened,
ZOMÓRKOW: VELVET CAPELET WITH HOOD. | wiyldi black and white checks rice folded under sequis
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