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THE CHINA MAIL," SATURDAY, AUGUST 29, 1959.
WEEK-END WOMANSENSE
THE TWO
FACES
THURSDAY'S CHILD EARTHA HAS GONE FAR
✪LUCK
LADY LUCK-
your
CHINA MAIL
horoscope
SATURDAY, AUGUST 29
you for
cautious showing
AQUARIES (January 21- February 19): Accept an Invitation to the country without hesitation. You can be assured of an amusing time plus all the comforts CAPRICORN of home."
PISCES (February 20- March 20): Among your fellow
party guests at a this weekend you will un- fortunately find a person
land.
SHE
THE was born in America's Deep South. A dozen times she almost starved to death before her mother sent her to live with an aunt in New York. There she merely went hungry. She grew up into an ugly, stand-offish child with red hair' and a score of chips on each shoulder. She felt unloved and unwanted. "You'll come to a bad end," prophesied her aunt.
Orcont Wolles.
Yet that same girl once one night was walked straight up to Sir busily searching Europe for
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blonde actress to star in "Helen of
Winston Churchill, stuck cool, him
opposite
out her hand and an Troy." nounced: "I'm Eartha Kitt."
£10,000 Mink
Captivated by the clark, sizzling Eartha, he called of his hunt for a blonde, christened her the Most Exciting WoMATY in the World, and took her on lour with him as Helen. To- The girl who once gether they were sensational.
for couldn't afford to pay her school lunches can now Alzoll into Parla couture Halon, point to a £20,000 blonde mink and say casual- ly: "I'll have that.”
Critics Raved
A little later Eartha caused a sensation of her own when the appeared in a short revue film called "New Faces." To her own arrangement and choreo graphy famous "Monotonous." And the critics raved.
EARTHA
PALE PINK
FOR
MEN?
By PAT BOWLER
"BRIGHTER clothes for men," said the circular
on my desk. And it went on to review the possibility of the drab hangover from the latter half of the 19th century being ousted by the gay colourfulness of the early 1800s.
It's an awful thought that leaders of today's male fashions fare actually rebelling against the dark-ruits-white-shirts re- gime, and aro considering the Idea of putting, women com- pletely in the shade by design ing excessively bright clothes for
men.
What girl worth her salt could bear to be seen with her boy
friend when he is the focus of she Bang her now-attention?
Thursday's chlid, as she called herself in her savage, bitter autobiography-haa come a very long way from the mistries of the Deep So Eartha Kitt became a star. But fame ond fortune didn't South.
change the woman behind the Once she said: "I feel is She has been presented stat.
Eartha Ki were #1 to the Queen and the Duke though
friend of mine who is doing
of Edinburgh, argued rather well, and I am proud of about politics with Pandit her, but a little surprised." Nehru,
discussed and Einstein's theories with the great man himself, She can speak seven languages, in- cluding Turkish.
Sull remote, still insecure, she deles publicity stunts to bulld her up as Eartha the Man-Eater" by being rude and eff-hand to almost everyone.
She makes a luxurious liv One of the highest-paid ing singing bad-girl songs-and stars in show business, insists that she's just a down- "I like Earthd con command to-earth giri at heart, several thousands of pounds to read," she says, "and reflect. for a single night's work. And cook the odd meal," Her sultry, molten-honey- over-gravel voice collects her star billing wherever she sings to the tune of £85,000 a year.
Big Break
help make some enquiries before
It all started when she your generous went for an audition with the Katherine Dunham (December 22-troupe of coloured dancera January 20): Since you are and won a scholarship for something of a perfectionist a few pounds a week. The you may find it diMcult to Dunham dancers took her live up to the high all over Europe to Lon- standards
have you
set don, Paris, Stockholm....
yourself.
of the kind that always LUCKY ENCOUNTER:
find fault.
ARIES (March 21-April 19): After having tried to make friends with a rather dis- tant person you will come to the conclusion that an entirely different approachi is needed to achieve your: aim.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20):
You will have an opportunity
today is your birthday, meeting with ร woman named IRENE may have some special significance.
In Paris she left the troupe, solo cabaret act worked out a for herself and got a job in one of Paris's mos! fashionablu nightclubs.
Then came her first big break for stardom. In the audience
New Cook Books
to relax over the weekend COOKS who think for themselves can take a
und enjoy the luxury If
vacation this summer-from thinking, not
being pampered by a per- cooking.
fect host.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21):
:
New cookbooks that do all your party menu The best way ́to keep planning are almost as numerous as mosquitoes at
valued friendship which
threatens to Ku Utt the rocks is by being Conn- sistently courteous and re- fusing to quarrel.
a barbecue. They offer guidance for serving six guests or 600. Some make good use of the hasty cook's best friend, a can opener.
Among the most helpful Scott has only, one thing to re- volumes are the "Farm Journal's commend It-plans for serving Country Cookbook" (Doubleday) dinner to GDO guests. Don't do it and Thoughts for Buffels" yoursel?, the author advises: Ap-
point a committee, line up loughton Mifin).
battery of chairmen, and solicit;
CANCER (June 22-July 21): You may have to be some- what daring in your plans for the weekend and with any luck you will get away) The first with it.
LEO
VIRGO (August 22-Septem-
ber 22): Stay home tonight
and you will discover that
all the fun you want is right on your door-step,
11's more than the female sense of pride could bearl
1
de-
now-length shorts corated with tiny embrol- dered lager-beer bottles." What a picturel
And then there is the problem of choosing cotours that wouldn't scream at each other. A mental picture comes to mind of a pale pink zult (male version) with an orange dress (worn by the lady whom the male was escorting).
Not for one moment, however, do I think things would get so bad.
After all, men hove того
Could you Imagine, after all these years of female superiority in the matter of clothes, that the menfolk would take the lead in sense (I think) than to presume the fashion stakes, be the centre that after more than a century of attraction at social functions women would surrender to such and gatherings? What a horrible trend without SOME sort of thought!
fight.
But after looking seriously at I can just imagine fashion
preview pictures of what the notes reading: "Mr X best-dressed men would jook was wearing a delightful like. if imaginative male outfit, with elegant acces designers In the feld of mas- sories of pigskin, in- culine fashion had their way, I
·cluding a matching cover for his cane" or "the victor in the men's terials finals wore
can't resist a slight shudder.
Natty check suits, stripes that run horizontally and vertically on the same sult; and a creation the described as one of the latest
"lounger" suite, made all in one piece (like a little boy's romper Bit!), washable, Crease- resistant, designed for at-home wear, and with a brass-buckled front-bell which is purely de- corative. Designed in America (of course!).
Any sensible man should realise that women prefer them Just as they are. No too-bright colours, no startling stripes, no gorish checks,
dazzling bquares, no glamorising innova- tiona
Rings Just For Fun!
Whatever will icy think of next? I've just seen a display of novel rings, each with a built
In secret compartment. Shades 1800s again--but of the carly this time for feminine wear....I think.
These novel rings belong to a range of massive cocktail rings, many of them ret with brilliantly-coloured stones, and marking the spread of a fashion that until recently was only accepted on some parts of the European Continent.
was afttret thai These rings are only for fun-tio one is expected
take them seriously."
Some are set with stones that have a mirror effect and ALL are enormous.
Another Oriental range is set with stones carved in "Intriente designs, and for evening wear there are rings set with pear- Hoed stones surrounded with scintillating parte.
THINGS TO COME
Includes substantial, contributions, of food and money, A diet that one dreams
rural fare and Americania d foreign specialities. For lastance,
and
☆
In contrast to the party booke
ment,
There, she'll sit or sland stage of develop aboard a cartmobile operated by
a simple, single-hundia.control.
"It she wants to walk rather One thing will remain un- than ride," Ernst sald, "she will Change, Ernst said. That is the move the sonic control box and "horse trading instinct that's in carry it in her hand and every housewife-her insistence cartmoblie will follow like
keep the cartmobiles that she have a chance to look, trained deg. Radar bumpers will from compare and select,
"Food stores definitely are nudging each other er bumpin*
and larger," he into shelves of morchandise." getting larger
"so we're going to need wald, revolutionary conveniences make it easy for women shop."
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Some women stand ont, always....... ...not for their beauty, though they may be beautiful: not for their clothes, though there are perfection, but for certain indefinable air, their nacural in- born elegance. When next you try to analyse that quiet distinction-beyond- price, study its elements one by one, Look, for instance, at the watch. You'll find a Rolex watch in the instinctive choice of the world's most elegant women.
They appreciate the design and quality that have made Ratex Skien- crafted watches famous for over half a century. That's why, whenever a gift --for a celebration, or an anniversary, or simply to give pleasure--is in your mind, you'll want to give the one watch she woukl choose herself-a Rolex. To find out more about the beautiful range of Ladies' Rolex Watcher, please write for the illustrated Rolex Ladice' ratologue to Rolex of Geneva or visit your maten Rolex jeweller,
ROLEX
A landmark in the history of Time measurement
Babies
love Nestum
Excellent for the aged and convalescent.
The easy-to-eat cereal flake's
**
Made from a blend of pre-cooked cereals, anriched with B vitamins and mineral salts, NESTUM is the ideal first solid food for Infants. It is also a delicious breakfast food
as well as a substantial evening: maal for school children and adults.
No cooking, just add milk or water.
Nestum
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not just pulling To get from the ground floor STORE architect ore dreams out of the air service area to the selling floor, the shopper will board a ramp- aald. "Maybe my veyor or a smooth, plastle eircu Presumably, on the day of wife in 1976 will travel to tongue's in cheek a bit, but lar tube lift in which the floor (July 22-August 21): French pommes de terre souffles such a dlaner, your donors will the food market by helicar, what I'm talking about will rise to the desired level, he A refreshing. elunge of are billed as pusfed-up potatoes. appear with 250 to 300 poun tour the aisles in a radar- either is available today said.
of baked ham, 35 three-quart revive sceno will
your The buffet book would make dishes of potatoes, 25 three equipped cartmobile, and somewhere in industry or in lugging spirits and make
eggs in some you fit for the hard work a good gift for brides not yet quart dishes of peas and carrots, buy pre-shelled
expert at gouging meal prepara- „beverages and trimmings.
teur-open plastic boxes. ahead of you.
tion time. Each menu has a schedule showing which dishes may be prepared a few hours, a
She will turn her helicar day or weeks ahead.
over to an automatic park. Also recommended for brides are cooking guides from two tre- ing elevator, rido a side is a revised, enlarged edition of qucally misunderstood groups, Walkveyor into the store, and ascend to the selling The Chafing Dish Cookbook" the Shakers and the Yogons. (Prentice-Hall) by John Marie Roberson, with stop-by-. sophical
"The Yoga Cookbook" (Philo-area by rampveyor or cir- step directions for recipes.
Edna cular tube lift. Library by Thompson adopts dishes of many If she wishes, she will be countries to
own dietary able to prepare the evening rules forbidding the use of res Aned food products. Instead, the dinner in an electronic oven "VIP Tosca a Party" (Simon recipes substitute whole grain, in the market's delicatessen land costs will force construc about preparing some meat cuts and Schurter) by William Me- potato and rice flours, com dopurtment, stick it in an tion of multiple deck, pigeon or has any questions about a The product, Brüst said, she will 28-Intyre, with 160 cartoon illustru meal, brown and raw sugars and automatic thermal wrapper stall parking (October
tions by Virgil Partch, is the honey, Yoghurt and wOLIT ETERNIT
onto a ramp where an automatic phone. The method of prepara- visit from a new cookbook you pass with often are used interchangeably, and arrive home with a shopper will drive her helicar pick up convenience "view" Gilox Annual ...
piping hot meal all ready mechanism will issue a coded ilon will be described to her Hong Kong Business Symposium acquaintance may somewhat
while she watches a film of the for Dad and the kids.
card and store the vehiclo. your
enthusinam for
The housewife, Ernst said, process This view of grocery will step into a Feldewalkacyor, "Milk will come in disposable the person after you have
"Shaker Recipes" (Green- a low-fat diet, wich) by been subjected to a tonSE
Willam Lawrence shopping, 1075 style, comes closed in a tunnel of clear cups, and eggs will be pro- right on your door-step. | (Enbieding) try Ancel and Mai Laser indicates that this row from Ralph Ernst, store plastic with a controlled tem shelled and packaged in tear- SAGITTARIUS (November Karet Key fussia appropriate at war for chead of His engineer and consulting perating of 78 degrees. The open individual plastic boxes,"
Uma in coriventerica: tpokery, 22-December 21): Animents and reglpos. -
The Shoker Manitato of 1878 architect of the National moving belt will carry her, at Ermal sald. "Butler, margatino,
the supermarket--probably acquaintance who is down Treasure of Personal Ideas" had a recipe for instant volles Association of Retail Gro x 40.12 miles hour, toso jams and jellies will come in
cers of the Uniti States, huge circular clone,
LIBRA (September 28-Octe
ber 22): A chance meeting with a very attractive per- son of the opposite sex may
develop into a satisfying re-
lationship.
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