THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 1961.
WOMANSENSE
TWO IN HARMONY
London.
STEPPING out on the fashion scene comes a
bright newcomer to a busy wardrobe-the
By
dress-suit. It is a slicked up version of an old Jane Rogers
faithful the dress teamed with its own matching jacket.
The shops may be leaded with two-pieces of this kind, but when the dres alim and chic. and the Jacket hard-tailored with a spark of Paris about it- Vive le difference!
The new dices-cult comes in a new gli merus fabric, pure silk bler ded with another Aure, One of the top favourites for stommer Iuft-weight it mixed with Then, or weed, The rent a fabric that tahes beutifully, yet keeps a feminine, dressy leak about it without creasing or looking fired by the time the day is cut.
The dreis part of the dress stitis ulmesi always a slim- cut sheath with a lowered neck- Live and no sieves. If it is ready to to date in fashion it probably has a wred waist- Bre as well with the team
your hip-bone coming just and à voile gathered frost to
ekiel beneath. The Jacket
the
half of the partnerchip is almost certainty collarless and buttoned to one side, or trimmed with brad Jike a Chanel suit. In other words, the dress-ault hus Just that stall something ex- tra compared with the ordinary dress Bird Jacket ecmbination, something that morks it cut for any dution-conseicus Weman's attention,
Worn together, these partners in fashion look for all the world like a suit and can take the smartest, fusslest hat and tie most important necessories, long white gloves, for instance, or a ble handtag.
Comes the evening, ned you, shed the jucke! to reveal one of the Invaluable basle dresses that can go anywhere and take anything in the way of costume jewellery, like bald jewelled breech, or river
or bevy of gilt pearls. chain necklaces.
يراوة
A new alk-and-tweed mixture makes this well-behaved street dress in black, brown and white by Rembrant, also Available in large and small filings.
THES
new milk-plus mixture fabric that i spotted isa ako being
made Up taip other things besides dress-sults. Look out for it in shirt-waist street dresses, for it combines the softnras of the aliku Abre with the prface interest and tex- ture of tweed,
NEW DESIGNER A new face In fashion has
up this week, a young Swins-born designer who looks like being a seriaus rival to Mary Quant of Buzaar, with her cult clothes. Her name is Mar- lotte Duetwyler, and she chose London's newest and smartest hotel, the Carlton Tower, to show her collection clothes.
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Marlotte designs for the girl who likes to be an individualist,
fashion personality rather than a carbon erpy of a Poria mannequin, so it is not surpris Ing that she muriers among her cuate mers several actresses and revue stars,
'Thila Reacon, will her first ready-to-wese collection, she has gone overboard for those fabu- lous Thai silks in cyclamen pink and deep turquoise blue, and The uses them with great effect for a series of deceptively sim- ple off-beat cocktal) dresses But
nude everyene cisc's clothes · keem somehow too fussy.
BEATNIK - MAKE-UP
Make-up goes cocl te, cats now, with a range of cormelics designed specially for
Jazz finds. One of London's leading make-up firms whose products are gold in all the chain stores sent an investigator along to the 11.ffee bars and jazz clubs do Brid Gut exectly what the beat niks wanted.
Marlotte Dactwyler makes this tunio-lengthi còat in curry gold with deep alde Alita in Irant, over its own matching Ekirt.
sh shops. She found too, that they, wanted paly chalit-like powder to give them a pale chatt-like complexion when all they call buy was pink
She found they were mad The result of her work 15 about cye make-up but couldn't Get the right colours. She dis. cavered they were crazy about brownish lipsticks, pale couldn't and them in the Eng- cakes,
now on nale: 1 тапка of cosmelles in sullable off-beat packs but atrielly down-to-earth but prices, and it is selling like hot
Rupert and the Paper-fall-37
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Algy is so keen to me if turning round three times has the same magis ellect on him that it had on Rupert and Edward that he Then he does it
starts at once.
again, but nothing happens except that he becomes rather breathless. "Perhaps that was the wrong way
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round 'll try from right to left."
he says. And he spins a fast 29 fe can until he gets so giddy that he falls down. Olt, dear, the whole place is turning round and round now." he gasps, "but it hasn't changed. This is still our Common !"
ALL RIGHTS RESKRYyn
STORIES FOR BOYS AND GIRLS
A Very Strange Bird
-He's Moving But Never Eats Or Sleeps→→→
By MAX TRELL
"WELL," SAID Chirpie Spar- tow us he alighted Un the window sk and took quick, approving look
A
at the
በር
sy know. I know," Chirpie vaid. "You're going to tell that everybody gets hungry,"
That's right. Everybody does get hungry," said Knari.
Honid nodded. "People get hungry, hungry. Hurses get geting Dog and Cats get hungry. Fish get hungry. Canaries get bun- Perhaps Chirple meant to say gry. You get hungry. Every more. He si't. He started body in the whole world pels pecking up the bread crumbs hungry."
bread cruinn spread out for his
breakfast, "I'm rently
tired of it."
und flipping them down his throat.
"You couldn't
be wronger."- said Chirpfe. "There's A good friend of mine who never gels hungry."
Khart and Banid immediately wanted to know who this friend
Winked at shadows While doing this, he wink- ed several times to Knart and Hanid,
Shadow Children the with the Turned-About Names, wha. who were standing inside the "He's a Bird," answered Chir room watching him. The win- ple. dow was open.
"All Birds get hungry," said
"Tired of what, Chirple Knarf, dear?" Hand finally asked.
Katrf thought Chirple might
morn-
They cat more
be tired of the bread crumbs.
"He's a Chicken," said Chir- "You get them every
મૈં Rooster of a ing," he said. "Should we stop ple. "He's
Chileken." leaving bread crumbs and leave
Knurt rod Hanid told Chirple something else, like cracker
that Chickens were always hun.
⚫ crumbs or cake crumbs?"
Chirple stepped in the middle They never stop eating ex- was a started sound in his cept when they're sleeping,"
of pecking up a crumb. There
voice is he said:
"Oh no! Oh no, no, no! I'm null"
Tired of what?
said Hanid.
up all night, when does he have time to sleep?"
That's it," sakt Chirple. "He doesn't."
"Doesn't sleep!" Hanid <X- claimed, givinų? Chirpi strange look. "You're making that up, Chirple dear. Now tell us the truth, when does
your friend sleep?"
"It's the truth, I tell you." Insisted Chirple. "He
doesn't And pat and he doesn't sleep. he's always moving around. He lives," Chirple added with an- ather wink, a sly one this time. "on the top-the tipplest part of the top-of a steeple,"
Shadows laughed
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"I have a friend who never gets hungry," Chirple told Shadows.
Chirple Joined them. He chirped | with laughter,
"He's on Iron Rooster," sald Knarf.
OFF FOR THE WEEKEND
the problem
Here Knart and lank inter- rapted to say that chickens and Rousters didn't ever live on the top of steeples.
"They
live in Chicken houses." raid Hanid.
"Not this one," sald Chirpic. He sounded very sure of him- solf. Then he pointed with his wing to steeple on 1 tall "Ilc': weather Itonster,"
♫ building on the other side of said Honid, "He's weather the bridge.
He twinks
around "There he is," said Chirple. whichever way the wind blown." "Look at him!
say he didn't?" ked
vone,
is what
clothes will you pack?
Mainly for Men
by lain Crawford
YOU
OU are thinking about having a
break. And before you gapes suitcase...
weekend
an empty
The problem: What's going in it? A spare shirt, sweater and slacks will hardly meet all social occasions, but on the other hand you (lon't want half a wardrobe cither.
I paked some experienced "It is a compliment to one's weekenders, Leslie Frewin host
to be
well and hostess owns one of the three largest turned out. Usually they have pubite refatious firms in Europe, taken a great den of trouble It has umces in London, Paris, with their home and it is a bit Rome and New York, and when of an insult to line surroundings Mr Frewin is not weekending to sit in them looking as if you
he is frequently making three- day trips abroad.
had just dug up the cabbaga patch."
He has 47 suits, three cars, an
He believes in taking a gift to unspecified number of horses
his hosts, "A bottle of Arsi- which are the Birst of his spare- class Amontillado sherry pover time hobbles taking their place fails," he says. with his interest in wine, food
and cricket (he is on the com- Takes his
mittee of the Lord's Taverners).
Weekending in the country, he travels from the offer in 1402. single-breasted, blue worst- ed sull, which serves for town and semi-formal country wear.
TELEVISION
typewriter
scriptwriter Andre de Launay who has just completed Robert Murley's new TV show, has a more casun! approach.
For point-to-points and in farmal country use, he takes a dark olive and tan overcheck "Away for the weekend," he Norfolk tweed Bull and he says, "i tuke my typewriter, wears the jacket with Jodhpurs wife and child, one suitense, a when riding,
bow fle and matching pair of socks for each day, dark glasses, pyjamas, slippers and a light- knit polo neck sweater which I wear nearly all the time to avoid having
change my to shirt."
It formality is called for, he pocks a lightweight, midnight blue two-piece dinner suit and a cummerbund.
Not to lead h'melf down with
special dress shirts, he takes He travels in a check shirt,
white-on-white. satin-striped shirts which can be worn either cavalry twill slacks and a zip-up formally or otherwise. His dress know I'm going to
suedo
Jacket--by care
PICTURE BY MORRIS NEWCOMEN
WEEKEND SUITCASE. Ready to go in is a dinner suit in 9oz, mohair-worsted. Inside are grey, brown and black check worsted slacks, two check_coun- try shirts, black, orange-stripod poplin pyjamas, a green rib-knit cardigan. His suit is in 17oz. Glenurqhuart brown and fawn check tweed set off Failsworth by a yellow face-cloth waistcoat, a "Cross Country" fabric hat and tan Derby brogues Her cardigan is in yellow ribbed wool. The suit- case is one of the Antler range.
a party," tie is a slip-on-"because not one says Bir de Launay, then I take not fuzz, keeps its shape mud is not fixed because they are not of us-not even my chaufleur-
ran lamentably, le a straight- a dark suit, white shirt and a mothproof and drip-try. forward old-type bow tle."
Equipped for
everything
festive bow tle, but I prefer a
weekend without this kind of VINTAGE 1960
party,"
1, like Mr de Launay and me, you feel silghtly resentful if you have to put on asult at weekends, you will have some new off-duty shirts I have seen.
ADD a couple of pairs of shoe. They are well-designed, virile
-suede elastic-sided chukka and colourful. boots and all occasions slip-ons A non-iron cotton pullover dark blue sweater, pyjamas, shirt in tan and black sacking tollet case und alovat ben
weave, with white cable stripe feathered hat and Mr Frewin is
I thought particularly attractive. equipped to face all sceial peril: A cotton jacket in stone with a English countryside can blue and greeen vertical stripe would be useful for the beach or golf course, too.
the DIT.
He assures me that it will all go into a small suitcase and a hand-grip and with minor modi- Mentions, can be used for Euro- pean wecktending as well.
Activity has brought back the bush-shirt for civilian use in n military style jacket shirt In "I do not belleve," says Mir white with four flapped pockets, Frewin firmly, "that simply be- One Piccadilly store has good cause one goes to the country knitted shirts in plain colours for the weekend that one should made of Tycora, a man-made wear 'rough old clobber."
blend like fine wool which does
LADY LUCK
YOUR CHINA MAIL HOROSCOPE
FIRST SIPS
DECENTLY
Rome
yet in bottle.
His 1959 wines are beginning to show splendidly now. Tho Meursault Charmes which should ect at around 17s. 6d. lives up to its name. well-balanced,
with a soft fruity wine Enish.
dry
I tasted of the 1960 Among the 1959 reds only the wines. They are, of course, smaller wines are becoming ready, bust the Monthelle not ready to drink yet, but Duresses (from a small vineyard it is possible to get some near Volnay) is good smooth idea of what they are going burgundy with a fine "nose" to be like.
With Monsieur Jean Rupiteau I sampled burgundies and Rhone wing, He told me that 1000 wines promise well-abundant and characterful although not as good as the best of the 10595.
and flavour.
If you are looking for a sea-
wine
to sonable
drink this weekend why not try Vin Fou?
This pleasant sparkling white wine from Arbols has other qualit'es berider apposileness. Drunk well-chilled it is drapey, His Meursault 1980 should be dry and no bad substitute for en excellent white burgundy by champagne. this time next year. has a EVERYONE is buying British heady bouquet and although still in men's clothics these days. I sharp on the palate at present, hear that President Kennedy on contains a lot of fruit which will taking up office ordered 12 new balance it out.
sulis all made from cloth ob I also liked the prospect of tained from the Meursault Parzuot and the Burlington-street woollen mer- firm of New 1000 Chateauneuf du Pape. chants. Retail prices for these wines are
~London Express Service).
JACOBY on BRIDGE
extra work which is proWHEN
you
ind yourself in perly the responsibility of a bad contract there is no reason to settle for a sure loss, Unless you are bled you should look around to see it there is some way to bring it homo.
THURSDAY, APRIL 27
AQUARIUS (3) (January 21-
February
19): Don't
uthera. magnify the difficulties of
(9) (August 22- problem facing you. VIRGO Ordinary
September 22): A docu- canimon Mense
ment submitted for menns
your may be the best of solving it.
signature today should be scrutinised with special
A
PISCES (1) (February 20- family March 20): A obligation will have to be fulfilled, no matter how much it may interfere with your personal plans.
"Did I say he wasn't?" asked) ARIES (12) (March 21-April Chirple.
19) By taking enough time to buy wieely you cont improve your home without upending a great deal on it. TAURUS (4) (April 20-Mny 20): With your reputation for industry and integrity you should easily obtain "the backing you need to carry out your plans. GEMINI (2) (May 21-Juno 21): A minor disagreement should not be taken aufll- ciently seriously to spoll.
otherwiso pleasant
**Did Chirple.
"And of course he doesn't Chirple, eat," and Hanid.
Knarf and Hand looked. Then they looked at each ether, and looted at and laughed.
"See him?" asked Chirpic. "Yes, we see lun, alt right," Answered Hanjd.
"In be a Rooster or isn't he?" asked Chirpte.
"He's a Rocster,"
Kaart,
answered
He con't cat
"Of course he doesn't!" said Knarf. "He can't, lin couldn'."
won't. "And hy
And he wouldn't," said Chirpie. "Haven't I naked him n thousand រង one limes to fly down to this
friendship.
"And Roosters eat even more thon Chickens." said Knar!, "be- cause they get up e:rlier in the Then what are you Ured ct?" morning. They have more tine flanld asket gain. "You to cat." shouldn't say a thing like that "This Roesler friend of mine," unler you mean it, We're sald Chirple, "is up earlier than worried about you, darling. Niw anybody else. He's up earlier west and the north and the "And hon't he answered wh 1 is it you're tired of?"
than all the Chickens and not," said Henid. "He's mov- thousand and two times that Roosters put together. He's up ing whichever way the wind is he's never hungry?” all day and up all night,"
blowing."
"Is he moving around or isn't window sill and thore my bread CANCER (6) (June 22--July
"Hungry," said Chirpts "I'm
tired of being hungry?"
Knart and Hand
In surprise,
exclaimed
he?" asked Chiiple.
"He's moving to the east and
crumbs?
And Chirple went on pecking "When does ho alemp7". Keart Then Kharf and Harild burat up ħli criarbs end tossing them ooked. “If he's up all day and cut laughing again. This time happily down his throvt.
21): You must not let one porson's failure to appre- einto your help harden you to the needs of others.
LEO (5) (July 22-Augunt 21): Don't be too ready to burden yourself with
CRTC.
After West's
South
❤+CARD SeriJUA
opening lead of the three of diamonds did not take long for LIBRA (11) (September 23. to see that three no-trump was October 22): You will be not a really good spot. His best |sult was clubs, but if he took falling in loyalty to an old
time to knock out the ace the friend if you let gossip defence would have five tricks raise the slightest doubt in right off the bat. your mind about him.
A little further study, showed SCORPIO (8) October 23-South that he just might make the hand If he had a lot of November 21): Give way luck and South decided to play to your partner's whim in for that lot of luck. an unimportant matter, it you c thus avoid fric- tion. SAGITTARIUS (10) (Novem ber 22-December 21): If a friend entrants you with a secret, you must resist the impulse to divulge it even to your family. CAPRICORN (7) (December 22-January 20): Draw on your own experience when anked for advice on a very human problem.
LUCKY YOUR
NUMBER: Count the letters in your first name and add the total to the number shown in brackets after your sign of the Zodiac. Thin in your lucky number for today.
Fass
Q-The bidding has been: North 1
East South
Weat
14
Pass
4N.T. UN.T.
Pass Pasa Ром
Pass
1.
Pai You, South, fold: ARJIGE VE12 4AB54 35
What do you do? A-Bid soren hearts. This is paradoxical because you actual- ly were encouraged when your pariner showed up wilk ne kings
TODAY'S QUESTION You hold tho samo hand and respond one spada to your part. ner's ono clubs opening. His xo- bid is one no-trump. What do you do now?
Answer TomOITOW
NORTH A743 ❤AQIOD +7 4QJ1004
EAST AKJ4
6432 Q1005
WEST
A 960 ❤K75
KJ932
13
SOUTH (D)
A AQ 102
JD
462
A84
Both vulnerable
K970
South
West North Fast
Para
Para
I A
Pars
34 Pass
3 N.T.
Par
Por Pass
Opening lead-3
13
Then he led the jacic of hearts and when West covered with the king (West hoped that East would show up with the uine spot). South counted four heart tricks. Now all he needed were four tricks in spaden and he could make aine tricks with- out touching clubs at all.
South promptly led a spade from dummy. East played the four and South put in the ten. When that held South only needed one more bit of luck. He cashed dummy's hearts and led a second spade. His queen covered East's Jack; lis dropped the king and nine to. gether; and his dence of spades inado the ninth trick,
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