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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, JUNE 2, 1961.
WOMANSENSE
BY JILL
Maytime in Moscow BUTTERFIELD
THE DRESS BEHIND THAT RUMPUS
IN THE
MARKET!
THE SETTING Is Moscow's tumble-down Central Market. Here, as Bri- fish model Stella Grove posed for this fashion picture and Russian shoppers admired her dress, rumpua threatened. A Communist Party mun objected: This la not good for Russia. A good-humoured police- man said: Nonsense. And the picture was taken." The model-and the dress-are in Moscow for the British Trade Fair.
SWALLOWING Moscow in two days has the same effect as downing a glass of vodka in the traditional throat- burning swallow. At first you feel fine, full of "What's-all- the-fuss-about?" normality.
This city where golden domes and soap-coloured skyscrapers soar side by side seemu a pretty ordinary sort of place. If all the women lost n stone in weight and all the doors gained a coat of paint it could well be Man- chester. Then the difference. like the vodka effeci, begins to hit you-bard.
For this is essentially a town where everything has a purpose and little is done for fi
But for the women of Mas-
cow the purpose and the pattern
Fashion with all the force, zeal, undertaken !! Operation and initiative they give to what- ever they do.
Their drive has three Main prongs,
IMPROVING
дге changing fast. Where ti Firal: More labour, money,
couple of years ago it was con- and propaganda is being poured sidered a bit decadent to be well into the neglected fashion In- dressed, well groomed, today it
dustry. In considered "unkultured" not
to be.
O.K. WORD
"Kulture" is the current OK. 10
is very kultured indeed.
"Don't let these styles sit Idly shelves," booms the on our commentator
kind of Bl the show which would have raised Rales of tiggles a few усага ngo.
+4
מן!
In Moscow's
Contral
Markot:
British girl. British dress. The girl is Mayfair model Stella Grove.
freer
Soviet Vogue are in
sketch elreutation. Students Instead of sniger when they see a well-dressed Westerner in the street.
GLAMOUR
aru certainly Pretty clothes there if you have the money. For fashion in Moscow is u business. expensive
word here. Mothers uf
The Press too urges women to children are kultured. Prima wear brighter, gayer colours and streets ballerinas are kultured. Gagarin the complaints in the
rulse an echo of home for me. For
shop- England, Today it is the ofetal pers
here complain that hideously Soviet Intent to make the the fashion buyers don't bring "The up-to-date little dress i women of Russia the best dress to the shops the kind of go- ed in the world. Will they sucered? They might
us all. For the Russians
ahead clothes they want. surprise But conditions are improving have daily. Copies of Modi-the
tried on in Moscow's mammoth store, Gun, would have set me back £25. An ordinary man's overcoat costs around £90 and
The dress is a shoath in belge and white stripes
Third: The Russian officials
Russian - made winkle-picker which is open only to brides, fashion-parered Moscow it is a
grooms, ond their shoes sell for £23.
families. bendy drink. black-eyed, Here the director, Second: The young are en- couraged to be the style setters fenial Naigevzin, silting under are willing to watch, listen, and a smiling portrait of Khrushchev, learn. Recently the first fashion of tomorrow. Children have told me: "The trend in our
the show of the British Trade Fair whole shop devoted entirely to politics is to strengthen them with toys, child-size China, family
was presented in Russia's House ice cream on every slalrease, make the beginning of married of Models,
fe beautiful,"
And youth is given a heady taste of glamour in the six- month-old Young Couples' Shop,
bond.
So
try to we
LEARNING
ก
Three hundred Russian fashion executiven saw the kind of good-looking dresses which sell off our pegs for around £8. Their applause shook the sudote Dom Modell.
And the lesson that fashion can be both chic and cheap had been tearned. The order books will show how strongly.
and enchanting clothes on sale
very day of the week. You can buy long-sleeved dresses in bright orange, cailor suits in sturdy navy,
prettily embroi- dered party trocks. And in the streets of Moscow you never The "beauty" consists of short see an uncared-for child.
white wedding dresses with flimay cotton veils (80 per cent of Moscow's brides choose lo wear white), trousseau room packed with rainbow coloured underwear (a nylon-
After the show, I talked to a like petticoat would cost
you
"We bays over £0), the luxury of fresh young girl student.
a natiy line in had more important things flowers, and
than fashions, suits, Moscow grooms think about men's can buy their
shiny One day. I know, we will be plastic handbags, pearl neck as smart as you," she confident- laces, teacups inscribed "To ly told me, as her teenage oves
wandered covetously over our wedding."
bright scarlet coat, high-heeled There is nothing, you could shoes, and sheer nylon stock- not And in the cheaper chain Ings. Flores of Britain-but 10
STORIES FOR BOYS AND GIRLS
A Story Comes True
--Shadows Follow Cinderella To The Castle...
By MAX TRELL
IT WAS
to their feet. They ran to the door.
strange how it all They could see nothing. happened. Kaart and Haald, Cinderella and her earringe the Shadow Children with the and galloplug white Horses and Turned-About Names, could her party dress and her glass hardly believe that it really had slippers had all vanished away. happened.
You can't imagine how dia-
Knart and appointed
They had been allting in the were. corner of the room next to the bookcase. It had grown dark. The clock had already struck nine o'clock.
Hanid
A little faster "If only we had run a lite faster," said Hanid, "we could
Hanid had said she was pretty have caught up with the car sleepy. Knart had yawned and ringe. Just think, Knarf, we
Hcord voices
What did she do then but reach into her basket. She took out two black Mice and instant- ly changed them into two mag- nificent black Ponles, all saddled and bridled.
"They'll take you to the party, my dears," she said.
"But we aren't dressed to go and a party," said Knarf Hanid.
to
Party clothes
The next second, Hanid found herself wearing a golden dress, while Knart found himself in a pink sult with high boots and a hal with a feather in it, just
ke a Knight.
"Off with you now," said the old Lady, smiling.
Out
"How can I go to a Iml?" Girl's voice was asking.
atretched and said that he, too, might have gone to the party Knart and Hanid, then
mom galloped of the
Just then the clock struck 12. down Knarf and Hanid and Cinderella was ready to go to bed.
with Cinderella."
"I don't know where she could the hall and into darkness, then all ran pellmell for the door.
and in through the have gone," Knurt said, after out again he looked all around. "Where is gates of a magnificent castle. All at once, they heard some-
The dance was taking place in one saying-it was a Girl who the party?"
the ballroom Inside the castle.
Kuarf danced with Cinderella! Hanid danced with Prince Charming!
was speaking-"But how can I
And now on even more won
go to a halt? I haven't even got derful thing happened.
n party dress."
From behind the bookcase
At ini, another voice ---- it came an old Lady. She was grey was a Woman's volce sald: and wrinkled. Her clothes were
like some "Here's a dress, my child. And plain. She looked here is a pair of glass slippers, body's Grandmother! She car And now we'll change these led a basket over her arm. Mice into Horses and this She stopped in front of Knarf She smiled in a pumpkin Into a carriage. And and Hanid,
kindly
Just as Grand away you go!"
There was a clatter of hoofs mothers niways do, even when Bomebody clse's and a rumble of carriage wheels, they
Knart looked of Hand and Grandmother. Hanld looked at Knarf.
"Cinderelin!" they both claimed.
ex.
way
are
Can sho help?
brides
to
my
-(London Express Servtca),
JACOBY on BRIDGE
RICK stealing is not the sole prerogative of declarer. The try it defence has a right to
also.
South won
Arst trick tho with the ace of hearts; there wi no reason to hold off. Then
trumps he drew
with three leads and gained nothing from Enst's two heart discards.
His next step was to go after Bull When that the spades. failed to break he wasn't dis- all. He simply Something clattered behind couraged at Cinderella as she rushed down threw West in with the queen the stairs. I was one of her of hearts.
As you can see, West had no glass slippeva.
Knort was about to pick it way to beat the alam at this Ipoint. A heart lend would give up, only Hanid stopped him.
South a ruff and discard; a club "Let Prince Charming and lead would allow South to plek it," she said. "That's the way up three club tricks.
Nevertheless, West gave the the story goes,"
beat the Knort and. Honid got home cards a chance and sately. They hoped that Cinder- in the whole ballroom stopped ella itid, too. They didn't see hier to watch. For never had they any more that night, seen such a beautiful couple.
Beautiful couplo
, Then Cinderella danced with Prince Charming and everyone
♥*CARD Senack♦.
Fairy tale book
It was Hanid who glanced at the clock in the ballroom.
Wert
It wasn't until the morning that they found
next her
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Boulk North Double
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Part Pass
You, Bouth, hold:
47% PAQES2 4KQ#8 495
What do you do?
"Oh, dear," she whispered to Liside the Fatry Talo Book on Knarf. "If Cinderelin' doesn't the top shell of the bookcast.
Ala bres hoaria. You have a chair. She wan sitting in
already made one very sicom Prince Charming was putting
bia. her foot. the glass slipper on
"Is there something I can do leave in ono minuto, her porty A second later, a tiny car- for you, my dears?” she asked. dress will change to rags again alage, drawn by a brace of gal- ne just saw Cinderella go and her beautiful carringe 1 loping white Horses rode acrons back in her earringe," haid going to change back into a the room and disappeared in the Knarf, "We wanted In foltow.
the other side of her to the party, but we were pumpkin pulled by Mice."
Just too late,"
"That's what's going to hap All the sleep was gone from "Oh, you're not too late at pen to us, tool" cried Knarf. Kaari and Haöld. They sprang all," said the old Lady.
"We'd better go, Hanid!"
darktiest on the door.
They were both smiling.
I'm sure said whispered to Kaart, "that they're going to Rve happily ever after,"
.
TODATE QUESTION Your partner raises to four hearts. What do you do now! Answer TomĪTEST
NORTH AAK72 ΦΛΟ
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18
EAST
31003 37542
WEST A 95 ➡ KQ 10 0
642. 44802
354 SOUTH (D) 6984
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Para
Pas
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Pass
Opening lead-♥K
hand. Instead of meekly lead- ing a low club which would and have forced East's Jack
fincase against his allowed
West played own queen, queen of clubs.
This put South's back,
Pho
the
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monkey Should lio wilh the trick in dummy and play Enst for the Jack of clubs should he win in his own hand and play West for both club honours..
South Onally
went wrong and even his partner could not really blame him,
LADY LUCK-
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Poor Podgy looks more and more This place gives me the creeps," he says Still, I suppose yours is the only idea left. be some way though There may be book says Rupert,
Imre."
but we must be very careful,” The back of the witch'a hide-out
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