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THE CHINA'' MAIL,
SATURDAY, JUNE 30, 1956.
I
WEEK-END WOMANSENSE
ANNE SCOTT-JAMES
tells of the most wonderful trip of her life
I've actually been in a real Russian home
AND IT WAS JUST LIKE AN ENGLISH COUNTRY WEEK-END
Ichnique
ot
I have learned the siting and sit- ung and staring and staring
The man at Intourist tella
CAN'T accustom my restaurant. And the men nisg are nil the right weapons eyes to the splendour here--so polite, well-dressed in Moscow. of England after and handsome, with their Russin. I can't get used to sunny smiles, shaved faces, the beautiful women who ties, braces, and sock aus- throng the streets in their penders. sumptuous clothes, and am dazzled by the fine food you can order in every little
thut to
you over and over again you can't take
planc 4 Leningrad without giving *
You tell him over and over again that you want
I CAN'T shake off the mulish day's notice. look that has settled 011 my
features. Smiles and polite to go that afternoon.
Dress Designs For Marilyn Are Marked Top
M'
Secret
By ANNA LANDAU
she designed
xtrem London. TISS BEATRICE DAW. Oardner
SON, Lincoln-born film fashion designer, has come home to her Belgravia flat from Hollywood with portfolio marked top secret, In it are the dress designs Miss Dawson has made for Marilyn Monroe.
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Miss Monroe will wear the crosses when she undertakes
"We
Ho pretends not to under- stand. You pretend not 10 understand, The one with the most staying power wins, (Mc.)
I CAN'T forget the stirring things I have seen on the most wonderful trip of my life
THE CHURCH ~~such sadness
I WENT to a service at the monastery of Zagorsk, 50 miles from Moscow, with pricats in gold robes, choir chanting, inccrise, and all the gorgeous rituai of the Greek Church,
My heart turned over at the
sadness in the
of inter
faces the peasants
who
alled the chureli
П race of agonised. hopeless dwurfs whoi look neither beller nor worse than the scrfs of 200 years ago.
for
Ava to wear in Pandora and be Flying Dutchmen. It was to muke Miss Gardiner look like a colume of marble, sprayed the material with wax and put paint into the cracks."
The biggest problem? To puchy Peter the Great), one of the people into "humans fat shapes." its solution? To pad out a large pair of tights, which the actor then wears over an ordinary pair.
For an offect of dirt, Misa Dawson has the clothes meared
the formidable task of playing with boot polish black and opposite Sir Laurence Olivier in brown for correct resulte For the film of Terence Rettigun's play, The Sleeping Prince, shaded effects, more
which is to be made in Britain spraying, in several
won't
reveal
different colours.
But how does
I FLEW to Leningrad (built
most beautiful cities in Europe, the old sirvels เคส Baroque
paint palaces built
lovers
Her
this summer.
Miss Dawson Miss Dawson many of tho details of the set about designing the dresses pictures which must rival the
But she will say that for a period im? one is in white chiffon. And all starts are in the style of 1911. She iimits that Miss Monroe liked
dresses
the dresses,
DELICATE
hat.
on a sparkling of chain of river's and corals. And I saw its famous museum, the Hermitage, with a collection of
There are priceless work Louvre.
She cowardos to a large gallery of every school, from in the libraries, where she
two Leo looks up art books with portraits of Gauguins,
the time, and old perlodicals. "Every age has its own and colours." says Miss Dawson, explaining her choice of mauve for a costure for Hildegarde Neff to wear na Trilby.
Then follows a visit
ما
mood
the
But not Miss Dawson's "Marilyn's face was much more dollente than I imagined," she says. "So I had to re-design it. Museum of Costume at Evidne As she turned over her rolls Castle in Sussex, and discussions with the set designer and
of sketches for films like Black director. Knight, Svengali, Trottie True, Pandora and the Flying Dutch-
RESEARCH
man. State Secret, The Pickwick
last Papers-for this
MY SOLUTION FOR WORLD PROBLEMS: THAT THE CAPITAL SHOULD BE MOVED
thuo
sed.
BACK FROM MOSCOW TO LENINGRAD. Leningrad เร on
In Leningrad the tempo of Moscow has heavy, inland air.
brisk. In Moscow it crawls with sillen slowness,
The
people in
life
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PICTURES BY DAVID OLINS
A
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The thing that you miss
most in Moscow
SFIEER
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FEMININITY that's what you miss in Russia, and AED m pleased to sto
when you For instance, get home. the clothes plotured here which
extremely pretty and feminine, Boili ard in washable, non-iron
cottons that
well..
Q.TU
travel
ABOVE: a shortlo houED- coat of non-fron pique patterned with cabbage rose. Left:
Victorian
peignoir of seersucker printed with rosebuds.
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It is women who build the skyscrapers, heave the loads and pick-axe the streets. I saw
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she re- Local research is also on Miss nomination Dawson's programme. Last year ceived an Oscar Miss Dawson explained some of are went on locations to Tripolt the rules of costume design for for tho Anthony Steel Alm cheerful they
Hims.
the
beat
Leningrad aro taller,
coking, more helpful and
better- .་
blood, I believe,
Swedish
If the capital were moyed the celd war might thaw out
SPENT a day with
In the country.
Black Tent. And in the tents have of the Bedouin women "Never anything fussy Dawson learned what was worn Mies many detalis make for a muzzy beneath the
end only
enveloping black outline,
of cloth of materials the cheap ones do robg-inyers not stand up to studio wear ind end pink, green and blue Russian couple in their
at festive times, like a wedding. studio lights
bride 10 take the Miss Dawson's own black suit when they abeyed both directives.
it look at the stars five nights In they herma their she looked a strangely stark succession. shindow
ell woor
their against her Belgravia hands drawing-room
leaf Jewellery-rings on every finger with Its striped turquoise walls, sun and earrings all the way along sofas ip brown, cherry and their ears. purple, glided
Focoto
and antique clocks.
In
and
ser
Д Kousc
THIS WAS SOMETHING OF A COUP, FOR I MET NO OTHER WESTERNER WHO HAD BEEN TO A RUSSIAN HOME.
I admit it was sheer luck. My Host had been on a delegation to cherubs "I try to see the pleture es a England and been enter
whole. I
the principals tamed by friends of mine whose
andi stalker, against their surroundings
other chameters. e carved among the
Then comes the moment of chair legs Miss Dawson con-
Miserably, sidered her method with clothes, depression.
I get
While her two ends
theirtores! through
Two days a week she spends as down to drawing."
consultant to one of the largest AL night Miss Dawson stroup of chain-stores in the sketches to the music of Spanish
to technique.
INGENUITY
country. But it is the film work flamenco on the gramophone hospitality a famous. They that presents the main challenge mid the two cats. She consulte wrote to him in Moscow asking with the dressmakers and him to look after me, and I was searches for materials in stores invited for the day and inter and junk shope. Sometimes pressed to stay the night. Miss Dawson takes a walk down
We drove out through the There was the armour, for the Portobello Road--where she dead - that countryɑlde | to example, for Alan Ladd's film bought Black Knight:
old lace-covered charming week-end house in the 150 knights dress for £2. The lace would middle of a forest needed conts of mail. Instead have cost more than that a yard and Pince
had suite of moulded to buy: it was used as a trim- rubber. It took over 20 separate ming for. Joan Simmons dress picces to make each outfli, In Footsteps in the Fog.
meulds were made. from casts and
plaster
leather than together with
An
REDEEMED
have no children, "No, we alas, but we have a Scotdi terrier," (The only dog I saw in Russia).
I WAS STARTLED at
the efficiency of business methods when you get above a certain level.
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"My wife does the rando, THE WOMEN I'm no good at it. But the chauffeur helps in his spare
time."
carry such load
a lorry driven up to a building-
site with a load of sand. A man drove the lorry--but two women unloaded the sand.
AND IT IS WOMEN WHO"" ARE THE LOSKES IN, A WORLD WHICH HAS-- MANY OF THE ESSEN- TIALS. BUT NONE OF THE
GEACES,
The line that is sold in the
"You Triest have another cake, Stop thinking about your letter of introduction delivered yet women buy it and carry it
to a man at the Ministry figure."
Foreign Affairs.
It took me four days to get a streets f limp and withering;
These were a high-up couple In the professional class. And Russia, I might mention, is the most class-conselous country have ever visited
THE BALLET -so brilliant,
BUT THE NEXT MORN- ING, AT 2, A LARGE CAR AND A FIRST-CLASE IN- TERPRETER ARRIVED WITHOUT WARNING TO FETCH ME.
*
of home with prides. They simply
do not know the meaning of quality.
THE MYSTERY
is this it?
YEF I WANTED to, stay for many weeks and travel into the
I was whisked cft without interior and see more and more breakfast or a clue' where of Russia. It is melancholy. but
I WENT to the ballet, to see was going. (Gaol maybe?) At full of mystery. I hated having Lepeshinskaya Ini Coppelin. the door of the Ministry n girl: lo turn home and I would go
She is one of the four top was ready wailing to take me back tomorrow,
WESTD to much is muddled ballerinas in Russia have upstairs for my interview, which never seen a dateer to compare was friendly and to the point, and perplexing. I have one con of birches with her.
She was stunningly
viction, "That most of the strange
IT COULD HAVE BEEN
a
I WAS SADDENED' all the things I have seen and done are is one of the few things time at the Icott Russia puris on nothing to do with Communism
crowd her women. No wonder they or non-Commuism. that shake the Moscow
aard party-faced and dour. of its apathy. It was pleasure to hear them clap and cheer,
out
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A WEEK-END AT HOME. We walked in the woods and picked lies of the valley,
We drove to look at the local For close-up
Scon Miss Dawson will be Stately Home - formerly shots they had the real thing driving to the studios by 7.30 palace of the Your ouverts, now brand-new medieval metal. And in the morning to attend the a rouscum. froops were chith nitings for the Sleeping Prince. Come of the mail. Mies Dawes was slightly Apart from dressing Martyn THE CHATTER contemptuous "only crochetled. Monroe and Dame Sybil Thom-
string, painted
At one
stage
ver
look at the villages, but though DROVE into the country :10
some of the landscape Moscow is beautiful, the villaged iro just bunches of wooden sharks.
36 familiar
There are no country inns or Wo talked fin had Frenchi) cndes, I am told anywhere in 000 about harching, holidays, and Rusly, nowhere outside
Miss Dawson la supervising Miss Dawson's other with Roger Furst, the
fim's artistio arcator,
the when after studying art at the hiring. of
000 Como
or,
caract, metals were her metler
She made necklices
dl
Bled in Parls and in Rome, costumes for the orowth. she, get up, her Own business Understandably, Miss Dawson designing and making jewellery, says this is the biggest bendnche "When we came here wo
out of of the lot, I is wake it inust were completely rolatce ging bubbles filed with water bring some more moments of my host: "Now noonus are and fotting charms. Others depression af they will be building sil-round us; wo shill qut of macaroni and felt I rodstafted by the intend of frilm
have to, moyo, furiller oglin Iet it get wet, then bakod it. A MOTOR
so dimetilt to ges malda targo towns how to promotes and and in the thirties she had two Monroe, Walk in the Daviron, you simply ... nuit have felp London shops, and employdd & Bress, compcruations, wil; be slimo gol are "working"; umur. hundred men.
Cómplelo. Today Mias Dawson retains WORLD
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