That family blow-up...
IT WON'T WORRY
THE CHILDREN
I'M
all for the current trend of doctors stick- ing their recks out. People will take, almost anything from a doctor -even husbande.
Now Dr D. Stafford
THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 1959.
WOMANSENSE
The Candid city
BARBARA GRIGGS
reporting on the London Collections
In again—that
little black suit
THE Worth collection the other day confirmed the three principal tendencies so far apparent Clark of Guy's has an- nounced that it is all right in the London fashion season. They are: for parents to quarrel in
The für appeared in the form
front of their children-in ot collars (plenty of them), eufs suft brow predominating a civilised way.
God muffy and. most sensation-for day and vulet and black for ally of all in a swinging camel-evening.
Bere again there was a lavish coloured coat whose inige bood
I was brought up in the era of "not in front of the children."
beaver.
People telling NANCY SPAIN some things only Paris could provoke.
Paris.
PARIS is a place where every summer the world goes mad. EARTHA KITT once told me: "Englishmen go crazy when they hit Paris.' But it isn't only Englishmen. When I am in Paris no day passes without someone aggressively confiding în me some accret of their heart. For example:-
NOEL COWARD read me the whole of his new farce "Look After Lulu," with VIVIEN LEIGH. He also played all the music of his new musical and all the music of his new ballet.
THORNTON WILDER zave
was thickly-lined 10 "blonde- use of fur. Many of his suits hadme brandy in the afternoon and two jackets (useful for travel- tok me all about his new play, ing). The outer one big, Lougee Seven Deadly Sine,"
bulky, the under one fitted
This resulted in my hus-
The bells turned up on almost band and I adjourning to all the sults and the ones which the bathroom and turning were not belled were litted.
The browns turned up every the taps full on before we where-cigar. nut, cognac and Bettled down to enjoy a first-sberry. class row ending in the nicost of reconciliations. But, alas, it meant that
In a Bttle black dress, Worth there was no hot water for provided the most nostalgic note the children's baths and of ull so far-with actually D they had listened to the rowdying panel at the back, break- through the door anyway.
Civilised?
Of course, there is really civilised Way
rowing.
Whether
the children were
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FULL SKIRTS
Ing out from the waist. There were more flying panels round black satin dress and on a red chiffon one.
And many dresses ху no peritotesty near to it with on- ofing over-skirts.
not
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und
And satin, that lovely wintry fabric, appeared again in a dress with a coffee-coloured
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The good little black sull definitely back-this collection present again included 21 perfect would hope to avoid example, hurling the aspidistra or the For late in the day this house frying pan at one's erring showed plenty of printed wools: spouse, but beyond that..ther dresses, the prettiest in a and more full, rustling skirts on Only in politica and the striking blue and green printed
sath with a square neck law is "civilised" rowing short sleeves. possible. The MP alludes to the man he regards as the most crooked device since kirt and long sleeved shing the invention of corkscrews with a pale blue low-cut fop. as "the right honourable There was more satin to follow.. gentleman." The lawyer refers to his most hated rival as "my learned friend." These nketler are not for the family blow-up. This Inevitably degenerated to the level of "you're another” before love and reason resume control Will the kids worry about all this?
Bet at all. That's the they quarret-before going off swiftly to play together,
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colossal
For the department of abso- Jute knock-outs, Owen Hyde Clarke, who designed this col-
eetton, showed us grey bende theatre coat, edged all the way dowD to the hem with a fat bund of grey fox.
While we were sul reeling
it
UP aquamurke velvet cout gigantically collared in snow white fox.
from this, he followed
with an
Charles Creed showed a sober autumn collection with
purple
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block and
like a waisteont with sleeves. dresses were the starkest For evening his little barest of all, and once more a thirties note crept in with the softly draped simple le dresses made of woollen chiffon round necks and fluttering, but not full skirts,
My own favourite: A black cut-throwaway velvet trench smurtness on top of a little black lace dinner dress.
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which is being performed in a garage in Chicago now. MAURICE CHEVALIER asked me (if you please) to got him a signed photograph of the Queon, laughing, on har way to open Parliament.
And, while he was asking this, Maurice was standing lu the drawing-room of his house, Marnes-la-Coquette, surrounded by hodge-podge of paintings by Utrillo. Renoir, Manet and Monet, and many china ashtrays, of straw hats and Ogurines of | himself in pate-blue china.
The pose
He left for Vienna that very afternoon, announcing: "I've already played AUDREY HEP Dunn's father,
DEBORAH KEOR'A father-in-law-and now I'm oft play SOPHIA fatter." LOREN'S
(Splendid wink.) I feel somehow this is going to be the inest dilleuli task of the three.
Fashion reflections with Patricia Donald-Smith (left), Nancy Spain (centre), and Bromwen Pugh.
Patricia got her tig chanco when she gave a lift to woman publiekty expert 8UNNY PISARRO an the way to the Wimbledon Championships,
Sunny scribbled a note to GINETTE SPANIER, the direc trize of Balmain, on the back of her Wimbledon programme, and Patricio look the note to Paris, was hired on the spot, and has bad the greatest collection created
around her ever given to one single glei, by Balmain.
"I have never suon any- thing like it, the way the shows clothes, said Balmain. "She is so dramatic. She acts 10. What sort of 19. your-old English girls are they turning out nowadays as uninhibited as this?”
of the Ritz Hotel when a very Parisian beauty spol-yes, the "Will PIERRE BALMAIN
I was intrigued to see this altructive man rushed up to me whereabouts were well known
marry Mlle. MADELEINE daughter of a company director ikea mad, darting dragonfly to me, but wild Indian horses
KOHLER (one of his from Angmering-on-Sea, att. bird confided in me that Audrey wouldn't drag it from me--and
Din.. all bones and CHOCHOLLS Hepburn was going to pose for
eyes al San. Mr Ferrer und dend- salesgirls)?"
who has taken this tight photographs during the couture pan comedian Kenton will
little world by storm. collections with hev hus crouch in the wigwam und band MEL FERRER and silent watch Airey modelling in the star BUSTER KEATON sup foreground. Talking about Audrey Hep- porting her D5 hackground burn, 1 had a shock the other igures. night.
A tepee (or wigwam) was to 1 was dining in the garden be pul up in some conveniently
rubber le YOUF BIRTHDAY....
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By STELLA
The Hitle shops have closed. The shopkeepers have left dirty white nolles stuck on Their iron curtains that say "Gone to the sea, back in September," but as one great ilde leaves on- ther foamlug wave of people come azzlog into the parched
streets of Paris,
The secret
In the Cabine they talk of nothing else.
I hit a long, cosy gossip with the two English girls who have mata such a hit in the fashion world: BRONWEN PUGH and PATRICIA DONALD-SMITH.
The possibility, even for one brief weeks, of being the Toast of Paris has brought Bronwen
well
The cure
She used to be a cordon bias cooking demonstrator in Woking and joyfully nets out the bust- ners of demonstrating to the housewife even now.
Yet she has never wanted to go on the stage. "I have been
in school plays," she told me. "I was a Dead Child once in a play by Maeterlink and once I was a turnip."
back to the couture once again. Bronwen, daughter of a judge who has just been knighted The model girls, the visitleg SIR ALAN PUGII, is about the Aremen from America, everyone most intelligent mannequin in concerned with the hot business the business. "Being the Toast of the couture, from buyers to of Paris sounds rather crisp and THURSDAY, AUGUST 6
sneak-thieves, who sical the sunburned to me," said Bron- PORN today, you have a quick your lite mate, there is none models, they all pack into the
But believe me there's nolt- D mind which comes to speedy more loyal than you are,
the right
about magic triangle on decisions. Yet, you are slow to You don't care too much about bank which is bounded by Bal- it it from within by a strange,
For Bronwen always looks using turgip-like or dead
this child, Inaccurately reported act. You want to think every time and the mundane buri- main, Dior, Balenciaga, Civen phosphorescent glow.
as having fainted dead wway thing over carefully before com- ness of making money. Just sochy, Chanel.
four times under the weight of mitting yourself. This inborn long as you have enough for the
When she is being squired her fabulous collection. caution is conditioned fu griat necessities of life and NFC
MORTIMER around by SIR extent by a desire not to make allowed to live your own life, as
WHEELER.
Mummy Donald-Smith of animal, vegela-
got a mistake. As a scholar and an you see it, you are entirely con-
ble, and mineral fame, I always anxious and rang her little girl intellectual, one of the greatest tent. And you're not going to
from Angmering. sins for you is to er in judg- be pushed into doing anything white kennel couts (It is quite
Les Girls wear nothing but pull her leg about this.
Bronwen is the first to admit ment! Just make sure that this against your own desires.
"Darling," she said, "do take she might be something hot here) and enormous quanti-
that hesitation doesn't
it easy. I will
noma cost you
send you Among those born on this good advancement-with some dale are: Goldsworthy
ties of make-up round their Sir Mortimer "dug up."
glucose tablets." Lowes one else taking it before you
eyes. And don't think there are Dickinson, author Alexanderot any seriels in the Cabine.
Bronwen was the Toast of
"I ask you," said Fatricis,' can decide.
Del Mar, political economist and (The Cabine is not ta Tittle Paris last year, This year glucose tablets in Paris! As it Home e means a great deal mining engineer; Guthrie
director to you, for you have exception, McClintic,
wonden but; It is the changing she may cede her title to an they would do any good." Garnish hot or cold soup with
and pro-room
where the manmoquins even crisper English piece of You will dueer; Alfred Lord Tennyson, strip and change for the great toast:
Brandy in the chopped. pimiento-stuffed olives.ally strong ties to kin.
do anything for those you love. port; James Thomson Shotwell,
Patricia Donold- would probably save Patricia's Your emotions
collections): are strong. historian,
Smith, aged 19-"Butte right now. So she had When young, you probably will To find what the stars have in
better look The one groat secrat the hope I look like 26,” sho fall in and unit of love with store for you tomorrow, select Cabine wants
Wilder. to know is said. great rupidity, since you may your birthday star and read the mistake temporary infatuation corresponding paragraph. for the real thing. But once you your birthday star be your dally have settled on one person as guide.
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CHILDREN'S CORNER
Wings For A Policeman
-He'd Trade His Shoes For A Small Airplane-
By MAX TRELL
whole world could fy-Cows and Sheep and Horses and Lions
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said the Pulicemon to of them could fly, there wouldn't 4 parfait,gress there, too.
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the Shadow Girl with be any room in the sky for the straw- SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22)-- berries.
TAURUS (APT. 21-May 21)-te Turned About Name, "that poor life Birds.” Concentrate on some special
Your best day ambition, and see that all efforts you could make some important could grow a pair of wings.""
of the week. I'd give almost
anything if I
All Different fare directed toward its success.
new coniacis, who can further: "Wings?" cald Hanid in sur- Honid said: "Birds By in the SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dee. your interests.
sky. Fishes swim in the sea. 22)-A month of generally good
GEMINI (May 23-June 21)prise. "Wings like a Bird?" fortune, and this is one of the Investigate the details of a legal look at that Sparrow on that and Bugs live in the ground, and The Policeman nodded. "Just Worms and Moles and Beetles botter days for all your efforts.
matter and get expert advice if tree," it appears to be neossary,
people walk Oti top of the CAPRICORN (Dec. 23-Jan. CANCER (June 28-July 23)-
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The Policeman nodded. fortune, so if it appears slow in Ucklish problem. Advance
Ilanid looked across at the Hank. The Birds have the sky. "It's all just as you said, coming, examine your own speedily by taking one careful tree. A Sparrow was sitting on The Fish have the water. efforts.
slop at a time!
the end of a branch. It stayed Moles and Worms have the could carry me up one street and
The shoes for a small airplane that. there for a moment, then away earth, and we walk un top."
down another. Only they don't "But some Fish can fly," said make them that small yet." Hanid,
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Finding that it is possible to free tap demands. It was Ragety's his clothes front the clinging fault," says Rupert, He threw Bramble thorne, Rupert, atruggles my Daddy's pipe in there and 1. out and, looking around, he aces was trying to fetch it out that three of the Imps of Spring Well, here it is." saya another have rejurned to help him by Imp crawling into the bramble pulling the branches away, “Flow patch and bringing it est. But ever did you get stuck like that, who in Reagery?" Another pal of you silly little bear? the lending your 2
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"Нете опе minute, goue the next." sald the Policeman. "Birds can fly. Policemen have to walk. Now if I had a pair of wings, I could fly down to the corner with no trouble at all. I could fly across the park. I could My home for dinner. I could fly up to the top of the tree and trod a book in the sunshine.”
The Policeman was silent for the next few minutes.
Trade The Shoes
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"Look at that bird," the policeman said to Hanld.
"Maybe," said Hand, som body will invent a little airplane no bigger than a bicycle."
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"And nome Birds can-swim,” said the Policemon, like the
"I hope they invent it soon," Ducks and Greese and Penguins," said the Valiceman, "My feet are "And some Animals and Bugs getting tired. Well, I'll say good- who live in, the ground cun conte bye to you now. I've got to start out and run wound as well as walking all around the block." we can," said Hunid.
Then Hanid wild goodbye, Sho "Oh yes," said the Policeman. turned around to wee the Police- "Rabbits and Foxes and Chip- man walking down the street. munks all live in the ground and He was walking quila briskly. Finally Hanid said: "I wonder they can run faster than I can."
"I don't think he's tired at why Birds" havo - wings, Mr
Hanid suddenly smiled.
nil," she said to herself. "I think Peliceman, and people haven't," "I just thought of something he could run around this block
That's a hard question to clse" she said. "People really 5 times without getting tired. : answer," said the Policeman, 1 can Oy, you know, And they He'd like a pair of wings because suppose when you come to don't need wings, either. They it's more fun dying than walk- I think of it that it's only fair that can fly in airplanes,"
Why Is It?
birds and insects should be able "Of course they can,"
to fly around, and people should the Policeman.
agreba
ing.'
And Hand run all the way
only be able to walk ground. "And don't think I wouldn't be home waving her arms geetatik-
| Because if everybody "in this happy to trade my best pair of ing she was a Bird.