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ALSO LATEST
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LOVE ON BUN
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A W, 1. VAN OTKE production Produced by Joseph L. Mankiewicz
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MARLENE
NEXT CHANGE DIETRICH - CHARLES
"THE GARDEN OF
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Styles For Coronation Year NIPPED-IN WAISTS & PLENTY OF POCKETS
From VICTORIA CHAPPELLE
1, 1937.
the
who was sent specially to Paris to obtain an authoritative ac- count of the Spring and Summer Coronation fashions now being shown in the dressmaking houses.
The Ittle Danish town of Silke- borg, in Jutland, possesses Paris, Feb. 21. hear that, if they insist on it, world's largest globe. A new cir- ridiculous cular gas reservoir, recently erected, THE Paris dressmakers they need have no
gave us the surprise of leaves, very few impossible is also used as a giant globe. our lives when the Springine to contend with this Spring. hats, and not a single awkward collections opened here to-: day.
eye on English
Are
the
English women, it seems, are res ponsible for this simplicity, for with the Coronation first-cinss news in all Gone were the various his-the dress houses, the designers have torical "influences" which be-certainly kept. on
tastes. wildered us last season; gone were the rather fancy dress clothes which are so often a trap for the unwary buyer during the opening days of the dress parades. The mannequins presented of the most wearable, simplest, and best tailored models turned out for some time. No Ridiculous Sleeves.
some
The showA next week may spoil this record, but for the moment women will be glad to
When Is A Cow A Machine?
COURT DECIDES
Honolulu, Feb. 10. Whether or not cows are contented Is the least of dairymen's worries in Hawaii.
a
With one adverse decision already have the against them, dairymen problem of proving that the cow is more than just on ordinary animal
that it is
milk producing machine.
It doesn't
affect the cows much one way or the other, They still get their hay and are milked twice a But for the dairyman, the fact his cows have been ruled animals and not machines is costing him solid cash.
day.
The trouble started when the gov- ernment disallowed a $68,105 deduc- tion in excise tax computations by Robert Hind, Ltd, a dairy.
It is true they are ́s bli uncertain about our waint-lines, which Kaing up and down like barometer in a wet summer-but wo can-do as we like about them. They are "nipped in," but I do not Imagine that ilght-incing is on way back.
Coats Like Guardsmen's
Here are some of the new lines:
its
Long conts like guardsmen's, with swaggering fulness at the back, fit- ing tops, lots of buttons, and an amazing number of pockets;
Short-Atting jackets with high revers or none at all, fairly straight skirts, and buttons and pockets as before;
Marlene
Dietrich
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Stepin FETCHIT
TO-MORROW
at the ALHAMBRA "ALIBI FOR MURDER" A Columbia Picture
A "Brutal STAR
Kisser"
-
SAYS EXPERT.
Here's a personal warning from Wally Westmore, Hollywood's make-up artist to Londoni Mar- lene Dietrich is n "brutal" kisser!
"She's enough to drive you crazy," asserted Westmore, who stands by in the studio to Occasionally the long ends of a reshape kissers after each kiss. coloured handkerchief fall from a pocket, and the effect is smart, "She needs a new mouth after especially when the latter is placed ench kiss. She's the hardest on the hip-line at the back;
kisser in the business. Her
and dark slim akiris;
Loose finger-length jackets in leading men know they've been bright colours, with matching hats kissed when she gets through." Miss Dietrich's osculatory devasta- Evening suits cut on day sulttion created something of a problem ilnes, with neat jackets or gowns in during the filming of the Selznick International technleolour picture, printed materials and glamorousThe Garden of Allah", since it was long coats silk net to cover them; nimed entirely in technicolour. Ex Vern Borea has jackets of jute and
evening gowns of glazed pique with traordinary care had to be taken straw belts and buttons in her collec- with the star's make-up, as well as tion.
with that of her co-star, Charles Boyer, during their love scenes. Mr. And the colours I have never seen Boyer was not available for comment so many outside a rainbow. With on the subject but it is a matter of orange, red, turquoise, lilac, coral record that not once during the with grey, beige, brown, and black as making of the picture was he heard background, our clothes this spring to complain about the "brutality" of
Miss Dietrich's kisses. should look cheerful.
The new hats will stay on the
when Boyer Evidently,
meets head without much preparations, Dietrich he doesn't mind a little but most of those shown me to smearing. After all, it's all for uri's day had the kind of shallow crown sake the present time Robert Donat,
which needa elastic and plenty of At hate to keep them in ploec.
famous star of "The Count of Monte But they are attractive, useful, and Cristo" is the recipient of Miss very gay. Some were shaped like Dietrich's labial caresses. All in the plates, others had straight brims, and line of work, of course!
They are The dairy sued for that allowance, the few small ones usually had currently diming "Knight Without usserting that the deduction was for flowers or ribbons jauntily trimining Armour for Alexander Korda's Lon- grain and molasses fed to the cows, the front.
don
Films at Denham Studios, Expert testimony was sought in an
For the "under-twentys" there are London, Both "Knight Without attempt to determine the exact per- centage of grain and molneses tunique fezes, worn on the very back Armour" and "Garden of Allah" will
be released by United Artists,
ed into milk in relation to the amount necessary merely to sustain
"From the evidence", wrote As- soclate Justice James J. Banks, "It is impossible to tell what, if any, part of the special foods were in- corporated into and remained in the product (milk) dealt in by the tax-
payer.
"There is a vast difference be- tween the cloth going into a suit of clothes, or even grain going into machinery of a brewery, and mate- rial fed the cows.
[
"Although..a cow often is called producing machine, It differs substantially from what is ordinarily called machinery in that nothing need be fed to a machine to main- tain it in working condition, while a cow requires food to keep it alive .even if does not produce any-
thing."
He sustained the government in disallowing the deduction.-United Press.
Star Runs Gauntlet of Kisses
New York, Feb. 21.
R. Taylor, handsome
of head.
"THE KING'S INDUSTRY
IS REMARKABLE”
-SIR J. SIMON
From PERCY CATER
Westminster, Feb. 21. How much diligence is demanded by the day-to-day tasks of a British King was made clear by Sir John Simon in the House of Commons debate to-night on the Regency Bill. Sir John said it was perfectly true that the constitutional Sove- reign in this country was not engaged in exercising his independent judgment and giving his personal decisions.
"But it is a great mistake to suppose that on that account a modern Sovereign has not a great deal of necessary business to do.
"Each department of the work cannot be carried on day by day Government is constantly send- is very great." ing to the King for signature and formal approval a very large range of documents, and the in- convenience which results if that
PROMENADERS SHOCKED
Shark Rises With Victim Adelalde, Feb. 21. People on the beach near Port
Mravourite of the screen, had Gemma, saw a 15-foot sharic rist cut
to run a gauntlet of kisses when of the water with a man's body in attending the Presidential birth- its mouth. The shark disappeared, day ball at Washington last and later reappeared with the body
still in its mouth. night.
Members of the Ladies' Com-. Captain Karl Karlson went out in "boat and fired several revolver mittee stood in line when he shots at the shark, which was not arrived with Governor Nice and seen again. other State officials. First one
and then another threw her arms able seaman, was later recovered.
The body of Lars Rasmussen, 21, round him and kissed him.
By the time he reached the plat-
The body of Axel Harry Lindquist,
form, where he made a brief 21, chip's carpenter, was found wash- speech, his face was NO
smeared cd astore next day. with tipstick that he had to borrow
Bir John spoke of the industry and punctuality, which were re- quired to deal with this amount of business. "I daresay` that some. times it is very uninteresting and not very exciting. The way
the Sovereign gets through it is very remarkable."
The Bill makes provision for a’Re- gency in the event of the Sovereign, on accession, being under 18, and, in the event of the Incapacity of the Sovereign through illness, and for the performance in certain events of royal functions on the Sovereign's behalf.
The B, when it became law, would apply to Britain and the Colonies, sald Sir John Simon, but it would be for each Dominion Govern. iment to decide whether any legisla-
tion was necessary.
Mr. J. R. Clynes (Platting),
who
expressed Socialist support of the Bill, said the Throno was accepted as a serviceable and proper institution by all classes in the land.
,、
As the Socialist Party had grown
In this country Republicanism bud. declined. A division was challenged by the IL.. members, and Mr. Gallacher
the Governor's handkerchief.
Both men, who were members of and Mr. Maxton (IL.P., Bridgeton) Police guarded him on the way out, the crew of the Finnish" barque were nominated as tellers for the was that the but there was another meice and Penang, were returning to the shilp "Noes." The results Mr. Taylor lost his white tie. The from a dance when their dinghy second reading was carried by 305. woman who seized it distributed por- overturned in a rough sea. Their 10 votes to one (Mr. Buchanan, LLP..
companions were saved.
Gorbuls, as the tellers do not vote.
tions among her friends.
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