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THE great American steel city of Pittsburg is
being painted and scrubbed.
But, unlike London,"Pittsburg will stay clean. Yet only a year ago Pittsburg, as famed for its smoke as for its steel, was thro- only American city to suffer London-like pen soup fogs.
It is no miracle of nature that has brought this change, just a law pusse ist year by the City Fathers outlawing smoke.
Pittsburg's factories, homes, offices, steam- boats, and locomotives must now either burn ***smokeless" fuels-oll, gas, coke or anthracite- or use equipment which will burn the other kinds of fuel smokelessly.
The results: Pittsburg has enjoyed 39 percent. more sunshine, planes can now land 68 percent, more often, and laundry bills for cur- tains and even clothing are cut by a third.
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A FEW WEEKS AGO a British gramophone
company in New York sent out without any fanfare a small batch of a new release from London. Suddenly it got orders for more. Then it was swamped with orders.
Chicago was selling 2,500 a day. So was every big city. Today that record and the tune on it is becoming what Tin Pan Alley calls a smash hit. The tune: "Underneath the Arches," once comedian Bud Flanagan's theme song.
The most
most popular girl in the world
TODAY, August 21, Prin-
To
Her partners tell me that they Ceas Margaret is 18, and dance with her cause they like he?
quille apart from a sense of duty. y{ officially "becomes
age." Already she is probably the most popular teen-age girl in the world. What is she like?
She is gay, witty, and very much Suys thinks and alive. And she openly: "Isn't it lucky that Lilibet Is the offer of us?"
When they were children it was always Margaret who took the lead Elizabeth is more any mischief. black by nature and has perhaps a Aronger sense of duty.
some-
Guests at the Palace are times embarrassed by Princess Margaret's blunt, direct remarks. but very few of them fall eventually to join in the laughter wholehearted-
AS MIMIC
K
Amuses her family
She has a keen sense of fun, and,
in spite of a wilty tongue, is always Kindhearted.
She is also an excellent
and
family at times keeps her mase for hours,
Although the Queen tried to keep possible t was her as young as
netimes diflicult. Now Margaret is considered completely grown-up by her family as well as by
il
her-
The Anal battle over which fune- tims she was too young to attend developed at Ascot.
The Queen t Id her that she wa to stay at home, but Margaret had ..ther idean..
Her family and their guesta set ot for the racecourse, Hint an hour after they had left Margaret ordered another car and drove after them.
Royal When she arrived in the Box there were niny astonished taces. But Margaret had won the clay.
After that she attended every day of the meeting.
DANCING Favourite pastime
Her favourite pastime is dancing She goes with plensure to nearly avery private dance to which she is
invited.
She talks non-stop, telling them so many ninusing stories that soon
they completely forget that sho
Margaret knows a lot of men aud
is quite frank that she wants to get married when she incets the right
one.
She will have a far wider cholce than Princess Elizabeth, and several
any different from any other girl names have been connected with
in the room.
If she were not royal it is cer- lain that she would still be one of the most-sought-after young girls In London,
She Is never allowed to go out dining and dancing by herself with a man, however well she and her family know him. Iter smallest parties have been foursomes-ance with the Marquis of Milford Haven when they" accompanied Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh to theatre and dinner, and once with Lord Derby, when noother maNTE and a Indy-in-waiting went them.
PARTIES
with
creen
hers already,
Lord Derby, before his marriuge, was a frequent visitor at the Palace, and Lord Porchester, Lord Bland- ford, Lord Milford Haven and Lord Ogilvy are others.
But nog all Margaret's boy friends have titles. There are quite a num- ber without and it makes no dif- ference ber,
DUBBED 'FLIRT'
In early teens
early
Wien she was still in her fecus her family dubbed her as a "dirt" because she knew the name
of nearly every officer who came on guard of Windsor Castle during the war.
While her sister is shy with people and often prefers being on her own. Margaret has plenty of close friends.
the prettiest Is Lady Lambart, tall, blonde and
In her own room
Princess Margaret has her sitting-room on the second floor of Buckingham Palace overlooking the gardens at the back. She entertains
friends there alone, her girl
but when any of her bay, friends are in vited ally-in-waiting is always unspoilt. present. She frequently has purtles
i ner own in this roum.
It is not etiquette
for
any man friend to call on ber casually. I has to wait until he receives an In- vitation, either by post or telephone, Intimate girl friends, however, ring up and drop in at all times.
Joanna
of
She is the younger of the...jate - Bar of Cavan's two daughters, and has known Princess Margaret since
hildhood.
Margaret's love of clothes has set the fashions for young girls all over the work. She has very good taste and quotes the Duchess of Kent as tale of the best-dressed women she knows,
Margaret has a telephone in her sitting room and in her bedroom, init it is connected through the
"The trouble with me," she once Palace exchange. Calls from her remarked. "is that I'm too youck known friends are put through direct to be really smart. I wish I were to her. But only calls from knowu 30" friends.
Letters addressed personally to her are sent to her unopened when the envelope is signed by the writer and
the writer is known. Other letters are opened by a lady-In-waiting.
When she sends a personal letter the initials the envelope "M." These personal letters, like all the Royal Family personal fetters, are register-
vil.
EDITORS PRIDE SERVICE,
Druckin
TERBATUBBAT SVIKING POST
“Havo much trouble. bringing him in?””.
So she looks forward to the day. when she can lend fashions for the "young marrieds" and leave teen-
age clothes behind her!
MAKE-UP
'Uses too much'
At present she has a
continual
battle with her family about wear-
ing things which they consider to be too ok for her.
'Bad Flanagan said: "That oki song, which I wrote in the dressing- roots of the Hippodrome, Derby, 1920, went to the U.S. years ago. But it did not exfch on. They told me the tle was misunderstood, Americans thought arches meant feet. But I am told that the Gl.s who went back told the Americans what the song meant."
PROHIBITIONISTS are making the
most of new Government figures which show that out of every £25 left to consumers after paying taxes, 17s, tl, goes in whisky.
new
And in preparation for 1 Prohibitionist drive, an organisation known as the Sons of the Whisky Rebellion. composed of bartenders
and their customers, has coined this slogan: "There are two types ot nores we do not go for--red noses and blue noses:"
A 62-PAGE REPORT issued
Iv
America's Foreign Trade Council today advises Washington of nine mensires it should take to guarante the U.S. a large port of the trade of India and Pakistan, em 9: "Further reuctions of Imperial trade ferences and trade barriers."
IT COSP *
pre-
Missouri prankster, fehn Fraser, £16 165. 52) couri fine for painting "ex" in front of the words "President Trumaa"
on a slip pointing to the President's hone in fidependence, Missouri,
ACCORDING to the United States
News, Washington is urging Sir Start Cripps
volunteer
Ludil of the British Empire's tances to show next year's more sceptical Congressmen that Britain, is not wasting any US dollars on Empire upkeep.
of
the THE MASTER
steamer Grand Dyke, having radioed a distress signal that his engines had In spite of her frequent wrangles failed 110 miles
uf south with her family about her clothes. Panama Canal, replied to a Press she gets on with them all extremely radlogram Inquiring what danger she well and loves being at home,
was in: "There is no danger when
The Duke of Edinburgh and she you have good Scats engineers." nre frm friends. She spends a great deal of her time with him and her sister.
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the
"You know, I arranged the mar- | 12USINESS; In 1939 foreign (mostly riaze!" she says.
DBritish) ears sold in America
She is delighted of the prospect of fatalled 298, in 1947, 1,453.. By becoming an aunt, and has keltted a | this year's end the total is expected lot of baby clothes,
to reach 20,000.
Before Princess Elizabeth was
The Queen also takes the view that her younger daughter uses too married the two Princesses used to much make-up for a girl of her age, breakfast logether in what is known but Margaret is astute about this as the School Room.
Now Margaret breakfasts alone or with a member of the Palace tail. She has other meals with the King and Queen.
now.
She just uses little powder and lipstick at home, "so that there won' be a fuss," she says, but "makes- up properly" when she goes out!
Her family also disapprove of the high wedge-heeled shoes she wears ecaure the thinks that they make her look taller than she is, and they do not ke her "new Inok" dresses.
But Margaret Is adamant. She refuses to have any others.
HER DRESSES Rings up designer
Her dress designer enjoys doing her clothes because she takes a live ly interest in them.
Sometimes he submits sketches of Iresses, and adds a flowered hat or nmuff in muke the picture com- plete.
When the dress arrives, without the extras, Margaret rings him up immediately to ask him where they
·rre
".
AT HOME
Quero
Wears an old skirt
When at home. Margaret usually wears an old skirt and jersey, and becomes theoretlently a child ngain,
FASHION: Polis show that only disapproves the New Look.
one in every five women sül
TELEVISION: Because
television
has become part of the necessary equipment of every New York bar, the Salvation Army in campaigning for television theatres. Its coin- ment: "Many a sincere man deler- mined not to drink has been lured room just to watch
"In spite of everything, soine into a bar times find it difficulty to look upon televisión," her as a grown-up," sald the Queen,
like so many other mothers.
The principal difference her 18th
birthday witi moke to her status CPORTS: All during the present will be that today and after she racing season in New York. could succeed her father or her sis-munters have refused to belleve that ter as Queen without the need for a Regency.
She is, however, not qualifled to be a Counsellor of Stald until she Is 21.
She may, after today, have a Indy- in-walting of her own. At present one of the Queen's or Princess Elizabeth's ladies attends her,
certain horse was strong enough to siny the course. But it has won consistently, and against such odds has made a small fortune for its backers. The horse's naine-British Istes.
SHOW: It cost so much to try. out a show in Amerlen now
But she is not likely to have any that Broadway is thinking of using other staff of her own until after London as a try-out centre.... and her return from the Australian tour. Before it fa 100 Into Margaret Truman, the President's daughtër, is
Her favourite colours are red and blue, but she also weurs quite a lot of pinit.
She thinks that dark blue white la the smartest colour com- bination, and she likes shoes and gloves.
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She says that she prefers the new to the old look, because it is more graceful and a change after the uniformity of war clothes."
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