THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 30, 1954.
WEEK-END WOMANSENSE
Kordas' New House In
Millionaires'
THE
Row...
London.
THE KORDAS have just moved from a suito at Claridges into a beautiful new home part of one of those vast, secluded houses which make up "Million- nires Row,"
Lady Korda, wife of Sir Alexander Korda, is Curu- dian and just about
A young and beautiful
Lwice
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the told me. She has enormous brown eyes and long fair hair which whe
twists into a chignon.
She wonra very plain clothes. 1ke black beat," she toll ine. with one coloured accessory She wore an aquamarine scarf) the day I saw her. What sort of evening clothes? "Short. simple dresses every time. In ful rength skirts i feet over- diesel,"
She loves the change from an hotel to a home, likes to order the food and do the shopping. She goes to Soho for foreign de- lencies, and gets her cheesEI where "I get mine.
1 was impressed with the way the Kordas have done their new home, because I think it foreshadows a coming style of decoration. The background of Qhe flat is tremendously plain. All Its beauty is in the furniture and the pictures and the objects in the room.
Th
means there
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stripe F Cortali, # Regency
cr and awngs,
multi- Fr>
coloured carnets and almost no pallerid wallpaper.
The walls int tellings
pel: are 2
The Coal-Heaver's Cap & The
Boater Are Favourites
The coal-henver's cap is made in white felt bound with black petersham. At the back, there's a buttoned "half belt".
Limbless Man Plays
'Missouri Waltz'
By Barney Fant
Denver, Colo. RS Eva Welbourne,
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MDiver en teacher
scale At
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By DOROTHY BARKLEY
London. Charleston bands in midnight more concerned about how TOUR 1954 hat will be a blue velvet, one inch wide. they can set new ones.
These with an up- They want a fresh, original
re-cres-
Yut in the true sense one are trimmed wet shopod style, not something which tries of the word. It will be a like a feather, and the correct to atago a come-back like a full-sized, hend - hugging way to wear them la round the long forgotten Alm star. They affair.
head just above the eyebrows, want orcations, not The whole thing looks as if it tions. When they wear a now For the half-hat, a fashion had stepped out of Hiawatha hat they like people to fit for two years, worn every- and taken a wrong turning into "Why; isn't that wonderfull” where by overy one Is as Mayfair. But of date now 03 a Inst
year's diary, In the first 1954 collection to be shown by a London mililner there's not trace of it. This means no more half-circles of velvet which passed for a hat and looked the same on everyone; no more struggling to keep hale short, nest and tidy beneath them,
Witness the two hats pictured here, both designed by the young milliner Edward Har- vane
One is a high-crowned
boater, looking something like fex. It's wom straight on the head so that it resta just above the eyebrows And it's made in two-coloured Italian straw. The other is a close- Atting hat, nicknamed the coal- heaver's cap. It's made in white felt and is bound with black petersham.
Softer colours are on the way In too. Look out for pastel blue and dove pink. These are two colours seen in Harvane's new collection and he used them for felt hats with big floppy brims crinkled round the edges. The crownless but also makes its debut. It is in midnight blue felt and has the brim under- lined with white swansdown. It's forecast as a winner for Ascot and other
formon) OC. casions.
THE TRIMMINGS
Imagination
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Coarse
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ume, was amazed to And out Inter she was using only two
runs riot when fingers, one on each hand. FR comes to trimmings. One
Before coming to Denver last now hat, In who has found that the August, Mrs Welbourne worked natural-coloured straw, has a are keyboard will respond to with the handicapped in New
crown of imitation orangis, painted off-white, the fitted cars something besides agile York City, her birthplace.
quiet mushroom
tried her theory out on a small size of marbles. Another is much red
decorated
д with
spray puleur, sofas and armchairs are fingers, is devoting
Goldwater Memortal, mimosa. The 1954 mimosa, by brown or beige, the curtains are of her time to making Hospital and at the Institute for the way, is not the natural
coloured velvet, plainly handicapped persons happy. Rehabilitation.
yellow, but a new coffee shade, hung.
One of the students at the Mrs Welbourne hopes to ex- It's worn drooping down the Welbourne Musle Centre for the tend her work over the nation side of the hat, not on the brim. In this quiet setting you can Handicapped here has neither She already has won support Some of the hats go way see and enjoy the magnificent hands nor feot. But he learned from leading musicians and back to the Charleston era for pictures (there are Renoirs, a
Canto play the "lasouri Walie" in those working in the rehabilita-inspiration. There are pudding- Monet. ■ Degas,
a month. and the furniture, which is un-|
tion of handicapped persons. basin hats in multi-coloured United Prese.
straw or pink shells. There are crowded, almost sparse a fow picces from many countries and periods, mixed happily together.
Pe
I asked Lady Korda which was her favourite pleture. The Degan," sho said, "because I chose it myself."
A SPUD IS USED This particular student, com siderably encouraged by his newly acquired skill, uses hooks attached to his arms on the keya and operates the pedals of the plane by shifting his weight forward and backward on a board extended from the stool he sits on. Similar FOOTNOTE: Lady Korda is
contraptions and another of the growing gadgets are used by Mrs Wel- brigade of women who travel | boume to teach icss extreme the work but come bück to cases. London to shop.
for One student,
yet
"I love English suits and Eng
Jish leather. And
things fit in best with an English
Hfe."
examole,
strikes the keys with them.
A POINT
audioama
This attempt to revive the pudding-basin hat raises a point designers should have under- stood long ago,
Women Just aren't interested in wearing fashions dug up from the past. They are much
not
Bay.
not My Aunt Maud had a hat Just like that."
Even If they were interested in revivals from the past, thero is still one big reason for not being enthusiastic about the pudding-basin: It's the least Battering, least attractive hat women ever fell for. And to this day they are still wonder- ing why they did fall for it.
The high-crowned boater is in two-toned gun metal grey straw. It is trimmed with a self-coloured velvet band and a yellow moss rose,
STRETCH-BEND TO
TO GET
THE
BOREDOM AND THE
toned.
By IDA JEAN KAIN
OF
RID BULGE
side.
TF wishes were exercises
right until right hand is palm down on floor, and have left all figures might be
arms reaching out beyond head. "I find English things much locks the ability to do things
with his fingers. But he can willowy-to paraphrase an the best value," she told me.
just keep the important muscles bend to the opposite Now st-r--t--h, from tip to It's
toe....smoothly And Today's stretch-bends Side-bending increases exibi Three times will do nicely...
slowly. grasp and hold onto things. In old English proverb,
used. He
a shapely fact that exercise are designed to lift your spirit. Ity. English his case, a potato is
change position and stretch all holds a spud in both hands and is the way to
The
make the chase away boredom and slim
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two-way along the left side. Relax... result is music. A simple thing wish for a fine figure come inches off a bulky middle men-
surement You
can have all streich. Kneel on right kace, let go with all your muscles and like a doorstep has been used true. There's magic in the this for six minutes' effort....so
stretch left foot out to side as lie limp...better
have far as it will reach. kind in other cases,
Bend to blanket over your of believing that stretch and bend........reach and Mis Welbourne explained her creates enthusiasm.
pull.... iden in help teach handleupped
What is back of your veljesty students put to use that which
lock of enthusiasm fot they have to work with and and
Standing erect, raiso right If it is the fact make them forget about the calisthelea?
faculties
they don't that exercise is not the most arm as you step back with the physical
right foot, touching toeg to effective means of reducing. have,
wake up to the re-shaping re- floor. Now p-u-1-1 muscularly, DISCOVERY wards. A little stretch-bending concentrating the action through
can help you find that lithe; lasome figure agala,
BEHIND A studen
LATTICE
CURTAIN
Alexandria.
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ACCIDENTAL
na
"Sister Kenny of the The plano keyboard," she has been called, opened her unusual music centre here last Septem-
She
slx started with
ber
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On the reducing score, stop to
the middlo of your Brute. "Grow" two inches taller through the middle. Raise left arm, step back to touch left toes to floor, and again pul! 10
X-QUEEN Narriman is dents six plano teachers think about it and you will ap- slim through the waist area.
und
fden of
thecliffe
well
elimbing Jacob's Indder." Keep Nature curtain by her mother sabilities and are taught to at an extravagant rate, Assila Sadek, according to spread Mrs Welbourne's way of would never be so improvident climbing, pulling the waist out as to make physical movements of hips, and midriff up away And
from waist. her former friends.
"handl-as
cost 80 much in termas of no one may step beyond the capped persons to play the plane calorie burning
Standing with front gate of Madame came to Mrs Welbourne by ne- The middle spread to brought apart, arch brLIE, overhead, Sadek's house where Nar-cident-while she was playing on by boredom, a limp spirit fingertips touching, shoulders
that relaxed....bend
Blowly side. riman lives without her one of her husband's favourite and softy flabby muscles
pieces. Her husband, who was invite fat. If you want to wards as far as comfortable, mother's permission.
In an adjoining room at the make it tough for fat to seitio, then come back to position and
In the mornings, Narriman does somo painting, then listens to the radio and, afterwards, walks in the garden with her pet black dog "Yoyo", a pre- sent from Farouk.
She puts on her pretilost drenses but no one sees then,
FOR A YOUNGER FACE
except ona girl friend named TAVE you at long last,
"Foulou".
She plays 'the plano and
H
Mrs Heavyweight, made
By HELEN FOLLETT
sings wistfully in her contralto up your mind to shed those foods are not your
• Voice, And
she
daydreams, surplus pounds and delete a nor are starch"
becaise, it is said, her own
life has been a dream.
This middle-class girl who
became Queen, now yer a
few unnecessary curves? It easy on futter,
desserts and yo
Is an excellent idea.
Extra-weight, zis
woight
to bhed welgift.
n
Blows
more constructed- existence health menace. It'
than she had over experienced up activities makes one lays to de batort
sluggish, no
Hot mother winthe
Alvorce to be complete båd
not only fat, cells on "but an -ynkar” „Duém modna extiu' beaût
You've übelded to diet, won't lacic, hands then marry her, "to ad, niep so go to it. Close yo
youn
nan who will make her eyes when compar
sweet phon
an older face as you work tow ward a younger:figure.
You should use an ostringent
or min fović. Apply it after cold-water rimming in the PROTI-
Pulls out
all bulgemo
Shape of brows to suit your features
THREAD
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· be done should harmoniso lower edge.
on both upgide: land feature. If the eyes "It is a mistake to
Many blondes, and red brows curved, to a half have eyebrows of lank
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