THE HONGKONG Telegraph, WEDNESDAY, August 24, 1998.
PLAYTIME
from the
described by Betty Hand
SK any of Hollywood's and navy und white pin-striped
A$
topline stars about their
Jucket.
private wardrobe and, ten Red Bandanna to one, you'll hear some- thing like this: ̈-
BEFORE Maureen O'Sullivan, re-
"Turned to Amerlea after making "A Yank at Oxford," she took me
ever seen.
"I have no private wardrobe to her dressmaker over here so that in Hollywood. After a day at I could see the new slack suits she'd the studios I go home and had made for the hot weather of Hollywood. Hers were the smartest change into slacks and a shirt. ve
Favourite among If I go out to dinner I wear the half a dozen sets was a suit of white same things, and if I go down crepe dotted with red numbers from to the bench-well, naturally, I to 100. She was considering team- ing a red bandunna and a red scarf wear slacks."
with them.
This, actually, is part of a conver- Prefers Frocks. sation I had with that topline stor
Joan Crawford some while back. Since then she hasn't changed a bit; NOR
she's
sportsminded About
JORMA SHEARER, like Maureen, always wears white or light clothes. For when I had a letter coloured slacks. Myrna Loy, though, from her this week she went into is different. She prefers frocks; her raptures over the new slack sults latest this year are made of deck- chair canvas with brief boleros of she'd bought for the summer.
the same material.
These, designed by herself, are These few words show you that made of wool garbardine, have beautifully cut trousers zipped at it's going to be a sporting summer, that trousers are definitely going to elther side, and hell-hop jackets with take a place in every star's ward- her initials, J. C. T. embroidered on the left lapel. With them Joan robe. And, whether we like them or not, we'll have to accept them, for teams white crepe taltored blouses they're going to feature a good dent with short sleeves.
over here too.
In the very hot weather, Joan will
If you live in the country and ring the changes with white play fancy your chances as a gardener, ahorts and shirt of that very heavy invest in a pair of slacks and tartan off-white tussore, Shorts will be shirt, for these are the right clothes kept up with buttercup yellow for a job of work in the open air. braces, made of chair webbing, en- For Gardening broidered with tiny coloured woollen flowers.
More Trousers
WHE
WHEN Marlene was over here and
we had a meeting about clothes,
ANN RUTHERFORD,
21
coming
actress in films, is a keen gur- dener in her spare time and always wears nut brown slacks and brown plaid skirt when riddlag the garden of weeds.
she could talk of nothing but the If you can honestly claim a pair trousers she has made famous. She of perfect legs, then step out in wears them constantly in Hollywood, shorts or a playsuit,
and has many a theory about them.
Hers are cut on similar lines to
There are as many styles in shorts as there are in frocks this year. If you're slim, wear very short shorts man's, straight, fairly narrow, with with no pleats or gathers, while if turn-ups always. With them she you're inclined to իր short and wears a double-breasted jacket of another colour, and this also is the (work of a man's tailor, Her favour-
ite combination is
cream Trousers
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Mix together small tin of strained sweet corn,, half a cupful of walnut kernels, and a breakfast cup full of diced, cooked chicken, moistening well with mayonnaise,
Place a small mound of the mix. turo in the centre of several crisp lettuce leaves, and stick into the top of each two or three small, whole, cooked, baby carrots."
STYLES
STARS
Ann Rutherford, young Hollywood actress, likes the caay informality of trot sera; those she is wearing above are in browe, worn with a gay plaid shirt in green, white, and brown.
dumpy you'll look best in shorts that look ilke a skirt in disguise. Tall and Slim
THOSE that you see in this page
nre intended for the tall and slim. Made of navy linen, they have
For squash Florence George, new singing star of the acreen, chooses navy linen shorts trim- med down the aida scams with white braid, and fastening at the waist with white lacing.
The knitted shirt jumper ale wears with them has a dashing necktic patterned with. daisies,
down the white braid
sides and AAY white lacing at the front. Their owner is news for she was recently voted the most beautiful newcomer to the screen. Her name is Florence George and comes to the screen from the Chicago Civic Opera. She is a modern proof as are Grace Moore, Lily Pons and Deanna Durbin, that? you can sing and be slim too.
Playsuits
PLAYSUITS, like shorts, are in-
tended for those with the mod- ern figure. There's a three-plece photographed below consisting of shorts, shirt and unkle length coat with П crownless beach hat-u favourite Hollywood fashion this--of the same material. Mary Brodel
wears it.
Beach Wrap
Alm
GAIL PATRICK, the star
mother in "Mad About Music,"
is much the same type co Kay Fron- cis and has the same Entr for clothes. She, like Kay, kes slick, sporting clothes rather than "pretty-pretties."
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Above right you see her in lounging housecoat of white wool crepe with scarf and belt striped in scarlet. Copy this coat in towelling and you have a charming beach wrap.
The playtime ensemble, worn by Mary Brodel, on the far left, would be quite easy to copy for the beach, in brightly patterned waffic cotton. It consists of short-sleeved rest robe, alide fastened to the waist, an abbre-' viated one-piece "romper," and toide-brimmed sun hat, made without a crown for coolness' sake. Hollywood extra is the noy-flowered cotton romper photographed, neri.
SUPPER DISHES
the
ony of the usual salad ingredients, drain, overnight, then the next day It can be made most successfully it is ready for removing from and economically with a special un- bag for use as required. salted margarine and the aid of n cream-making machine.
Salmon Aspic
Half, a a. pint of cream made in the. usual way with the cream-making
Make half a pint of packet aspic machine, using 4 pint of milk and Jelly and leave until it is cold and lb of unsalted margarine, is left to just beginning to firm. Mix in half stand in a warm part of the kitchen a pint of finely flaked cold, cooked 15 until 11 turns slightly sour-about salmen (or tinned salmon may be three days.
used if desired) and three table- spoonfuls of cooked rice. Set in
good, mixed salad with which some small moulds, and turn out on to
Then add 1⁄4 teaspoonful of salt and
and hang up over a bowl to drain. stir well, put all into a musiin bag
Try making cream cheese yourself -It's so useful for combining with. It is best to leave the cheese to mayonnaise has been incorporated.-
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Horc's a new line in housecoats, worn by lovely Gail Patrick. It is in
white wool crepe, floor length, with a wide sash wound twice round her waist. The long sash ends are striped in scarlet, and the scarf at the neck is striped to match,
VANITY NOTES
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[ANY women like to feel that their beauty prepara- tions have the same pedigree value as their furniture, their silver and their chino, There are indeed many alds to beauty in the salons of London, Paris and New York'
that are to-day faithfully
old copied from formulas and originally made up at the request of famous beautics of other centuries, - --
FOR
instance an almond lather--cream, made up by London specluitst as luxurious substitute for soap from fresh almonds, was first made from the same recipe for that traple and beautiful figura of the nineteenth century, the
cos Elizabeth of Austria,
of the
mad King Ludwig of Bavaria. It leaves the hands very white and transparent- looking. In the famous Winter- halter picture of the Empress the beauty of her hands is very noticeable,
A
SKIN food made from fresh cowslips of the Eng→ lish countryside was used as tradition lias it by Queen Elizabeth for whitening her rather sallow skin and keeping the torinkles at bay. A limited quantity of this is still made up. every year in a Londen labora- tary from the fresh blooma.
About the middle of last cen- tury a special sandalwoood scent was made up in Paris for a Russian Grand Duke who liked perfume but did not wish it to be said that he was effeminate. This is now a popular scent with Englishwomen to wear
with furs.
JUST before the war a proup smart American women discovered that Long Island strawberries could be crushed into a cream and a lottan with a wonderful astringent effect, and they used this treatment as a rejuvenator during hectic strawberry treatment is being social
scasons. To-day
this London gluen in lasts one hour, the favourite and salons,
from 5 to 8 or from 4 to 5 before time for the treatment being
evening's entertainment.
San
treatment can also be done
at home.
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