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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
FRIDAY, AUGUST 27, 1948.
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Fashionable Footsteps
By GRACE THORNCLIFFE HERE a trio of shoes out for a
stroll along
fushton
Jane.
First is a powder blue collon Pabardine double ankle strap sun- dal with cut-out heel and a double- band vamp. The second shoe is o twist around ankle strap in dark Dark kidskin. while brown and brown is the colour of the strap, the heel and the narrow platform. The vamp is nicely draped into the
shell darker leather. The
opera printed crepe is the sort pump in
elegant pahoe that provides un Contrast with a solidt hued frock.
RED-HEADED GABY MODELS FOR DIOR
by patricia lennard ·
DARIS-After a hectic night of
shown and heat, Gabrielle (Gaby). Young, nest British model to join the house of Christian Dior, finds herself. foie hy American spectators;
She will stay 'at Dior's for six months and then join the top-flight American | John Powers. Circuit,
model agency. for two to three
months.
Pushing back ter vivid red hair --parted in the middle to the nape
te all. Dior's models this, senson | with curls over the ears--she said: "It was no hot last night, they had to wipe us down with towels cach show."
Gaby, blue-eyed, 30 years old last week, returned from a four months tour of South Africa with a collec- tion of British clothes early, this ycar, then Ho! pneumonia.
In Paris on the way to Cannen to convalesce on July 1, she "popped in to Dior, because I've always wanted model his to clothes nod. couldn't rome year before."
to
18 changes
the
She was allowed
chase the
for two weeks and returned on July
15 for two wecks of night and clay ntlings for the
clothes changes of she wears Er parade. of models.
In
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She is the only British model out of Dior's seven-the rest are Polluh, Hungarian, Swedish and French.
She is it, 0, without shoes, bust 35in., hips 35in., waist 21in.- queplered to 18in. If necessary.
Her husband back in London is in the theatrical business and they have a flat at Marble Arch, "It's dune-in French style too--that Louis furniture, very dainty.". They have no children.
J
All too long
She found that all her clothes and those of other models had to be shortener for the New collection.
Dior inde her wear red, a piquanf shade she has never worn with her hair, and he wants her to wear ble hats to match her eyes,
She gets
Tastes Detatar Biar merta a challings, but --
The New Look will live on
AROUND THE TOWN
with Mercia Hillaly
THE THE second "Passing Out" parade Length New Look" in white shark- of the Hongkong Chinese Training sky with epaulette shouttlers and Unit on the ground adjoining Kow a black fez twined over one eye with loon Hospital on Thursday morning white drapery. was slightly marred by a drizzle.
Matthews.
Mr Neil Buchanan. managing
The GOC, General continued his address (translated director of Neil Buchanan Etd., ar- into Cantonese by an interpreter rived yesterday from Singapore with despite the rain, even though he was his assistant. Mrs Marie Connorton. slowly getting wet-and
found their pencil'nates "porters They have been touring Malayn to
At the conclusion of the parade, dry sherry and hot coffee biscuits were served to officers
and
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introduce some of the exclusive English fabrics that have alreasty been displayed fiere. Mr Buchanan
only 20,000 francs 2
Keep Count of Calories
Courtesy Dulları Boccers Selano?
If you have a tendency to put on weight, avold:starches and fain; oat Jots of fruit,
By HELEN FOLLETT
month for model- ling (about £25)-- payment in Inverse ratio to the caget-
with ness
which the jobs are sought.
VOU see pictures el pretty movie it. Trn and culley should be taken But models are
stars at y parties. apparently eleuls if you haven't had them that allowed to have feasting on
the good things of the way your tiste buds will soon de one ouift out of
iable, But don't fancy for 1L
turn-nbout and won't protest. every season's col-
moment that they ent whatever Eating is largely a matter of habit lection
happens to appeal to them. They anyway. specially for them watch their die every day. Keep- for nothing, and oting to normal weight means every- the end of the sea- son they can the original models
mode
buy
(starting price for cheapest garment, a day dress, is £100) for £10 to £15, "But they are pretty far gone by then,"
You can have lean meats, poultry,
thing to them; health, good looks. $65, sen food, vegetables, fruits, good jobs. And they exercise like fruit juices, buttermilk, unsweeten mad when they find that the svelte
ed lemonade. frame has taken on a few extra pounds.
If you would do a little sienderis Ing, don't regard the campaign as a terrible trial. Just take it, day by day and don't think too much about
It. Satisfy hunger, then don't take a single nibble more.
Avold cercals, sweet rlesserts. macaroni. Potatoes are not especial- or ly fattening: it is the butter gravy you put on them that gets in the mean licks.
Take a brisk walk every day. You the anyway, for should do that,
of sake
com- your health. your plexion, your figure. Gaby loves the work, finds the
Your worst diet enemies are fats, sujet supervision of
Don't sleep more than seven hours models com starches and sweets; fats lend the at night, never indulge in cat naps logs and gologs quaintly school-
others. Just cutting down Airlish, and exclaims at the typical cream, butter and
on during the day, You must be netive pastries may so as to burn up the calories you Parisienne's extreme femininity-make all the difference in the world. consume. If they aren't burnt up "they even Wear jewellery on Take tonsted rye bread instead of they slow themselves away in the foundation gorments."*
buttered white bread. You'll ke forin of adipose tissue.
BOYS AND GIRLS MAGAZINE
Shadows Visit Plymouth Town
They Meet Some Pilgrims Going to Church-
By MAX TRELL TERE was a picture on the wall.
Ruests in the Omeers' Mess. Among represents several Brilish fashion in the playroom, and under it
the few women present I noticed Mrs Tausley, wife of the Unit's Adjutant, wearing a definitely "New
houses.
colourful
He showed me a very scart with the five Olympic rings and covered with the names of all the competitors taking part in the
Your First chimes.
Impression Counts...
FIRST
Count
Mr Buchanan finds Singapore women very clothes-conscious, but more so in the evening, when “some
were the words "Plymouth Town." The picture belonged to the chil- dren; but since, it was in the play- room, all the toys felt they owned it, too. It was quite a pretty plc- ture.
You could see a row of housed with high, thatched roofs with lite side of them.
of the ladies are really exquisitely gardens on each dressed," he said. He will be leav-Toward the back, there was a brock ing for Saigon on Sunday.
with a hill rising behind it. And in front, was the sea, sparkling in the Dr Oswald Cooke, lecturer of sunshine. Yet, it must have been Physics at the Hongkong University winter_time_for_there was snow on bare for for over a year, is leaving with his the ground and icicles on the impressions
tomorrow for Manitoba, trees. Marching down the street. everyone, but especially impor-wite
were some men and women, boys where he will take up a tant for Career Girls. By that Caunda,
"of Manitoba, and girls, all dressed very strangely mean that the care you give your post at the University
or at any rate, not dressed like "surface" is just as reliable a gauge as Assistant Professor in Physles..
people today. of your Personality as the care that you give your mind, your job
A, Summer Social brought about 50 members your family,
of the European Slovernly grooming and a fum-MCA's Women Section together bling social technique show lack of on Wednesday to spend a most en practicality and up-to-dateness. Ajoyable evening chatting and having girl with these defects may have tea. The ladies voled for "heart of gold" but the people who meet her for the Orst time are more conscious of the shine on her nose and the flabby way that she shakes hands.
The girl who seriously wants to improve her ability to give favour able first impressions is not Just
Teddy, the Stuffed Bear, Mary
7.2.
Teddy suggested they And out about the Pilgrims from a book.
children olders.
were
NO BIRD
IN HAND
Grandma took her three-year-old granddaughter Linda for un motor ride. It was Grandma's custom to huy Linda seme Inexpensive toy before they returned home. -On the trip they passed one of those small traveling carnivals. Think- ing she could find something suit- able un the grounds, Grandma stopped. Grandma hunted and hunt- ed but no sign of a rubber ball, toy eur or anything.
spied
Finally in desperation she paper hat, bought it and clamped It on Ilftle Linda's head. They climb- Led back In the car and beaded
homewards.
+
TH
For a long time Linda was very 'quiet ̄ ̄ Finally "Graždina” broke the
silence, "Well, how do you like your. pretty new hal?" She heard answer so she turned and looked at her granddaughter. Linda wore the dressed like their most woebegone expression imagin- able, Suddenly her little hands shot out. palms upward as she sald, "But I haven't anything in these!"
a
Jane, the Rag Doll. Miss China Doll. Knarf ran up to a man with and Kaarf and Hanid, the shadow beard, who was leading the rest of children with the turned-around the people. Knart told him who he names, all wondered who the people was, and said he had come to find more were whom they saw on the picture out who they were. The man rail- frequent gatherings of this kind, of Plymouth Town.
ed. which have been inking place only twice yearly,
"llow would you like to join a Charm School?" and "Would you
Uos asked merbets
Look It Up
applying a profty veneer to her pernaire circulated in a question-if you look it up in a big book."
But there weren't any big books in the playroom.
Finally Knarf, the shadow, said
he knew how to find out
without
"We are Pilgrims," he replied.
-Henter L. Alleison
P
PATRIOT
WORD DIAMOND
"We are going to church. Not jong Our diamond centres on George ago, we landed here from Holland Washington: na An Tedrly said: "Some one ought to
American like talks on women's toples. and look it up in a big book. You can
In a ship called the Mayflower.* We | PATRIOT. The second' word is “a fluid," the third a "demon," interests were some of the ques-find everything you want to know, have built this town of Plymouth tree
and we mean to stay here always," || the, fifth "to onamel," and the sixth
is a negative word: for the purpose of
Knarf asked why they 'were sonality. She is polishing it so that finding out what the indies were in-
carrying muskets and the man its real beauty may be seen.
Perhaps she begins on the outside terested in and whether they had any
anawered that it was because of Ideas or suggestions for improve-
the Indians. Then he invited Knarf bust she
sht nds that only when shc
to come back soon. He said they has penetrated beneath the surfacement of club meetings.
looking up any big book. Mrs A. Bolton, Secretary, was pre-
were going to have a Thanksgivinit can she get the results which she sented with a silver cigarette case as
"How?" everyone else asked, feast....the first Thanksgiving ever desires. She may assume a better
to to be held in Amerlen. posture, just so that her clothes will a farewell gift, as she will be leaving wondering what he was going set better bul she will find that the shortly for a six-month vacation indo.
Knart found out that the man's England. correct posture will give her new
For answer, Koarf made himself name was Captain Miles Standish. робке,
too. It will make her feel
Fisherfolk and the landscape on small (for shadows can make them- Knart also met John Alden and more buoyant and more beautiful!
a little Island rear Hongkong pro-selves any size they plcose) and the Priscilia. Morale. Even good grooming Bvide endless inspiration for a little next instant, he sprang into the not entirely superficial in its effect. It raises a woman's morale to know that her face is properly made up and that her hair and clothes correct.
ure
frem Honol.
the
playroon
known but talented artist who hails picture itself. From the playroome pleture, back into
Then Knarf Jumped out of the they could see him landing in the We shall hear more about Joseph garden in front of one of the cottages, the Pilgrims. When Kharf told them and told everyone that he had, met Vaience when he gives an exhibl- then hurrying to the street where tion of his work. He hopes to do the strangely-dressed inside the Thanksgiving feast, Teddy the Stuff-
that
they were invited to the Siniling Eyet. The girl whom we this in about two or three months' marching. Meanwhile, Instantly like gives a simile with time when he has completed about picture, Knart found, that it really ed Dear usted: "Are they going to her handshake or her simple, "How a hundred paintings.
wps winter. A cald wind was have turkey and cranberry sauce?". do you do?" Her lips may not do
The influence of the painter blowing.
Knart didn't know, but when he so much but her eyes smile right | Gauguin is noticeable in his work
looked carefully at the plcture Into yours. A smile ju attractive In | with its bold, élemental colours and Kharf had a close look at the again, sure enough, under o Kself, cpu' lighten up an other-softened outlines. Ic excels in people. The women wore bonnets near the edge of the brook he saw wise plain face. When it is direct-portrait studios, but is now tackling and white collars and long, wide a turkey. And that made him quite ed right, at us, we like it better be- an ambitious Imaginative creation skirts. The men wore wide hats sure that there would be cranberry causo it seems a percopal tribute. Lon a very large canvas.
and they all carried muskets. The fauce too.
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BEY KETTAIN ANG
The Mandarín · Li-po welcomes li Rupert gravely.
Visitors Iram Nutwood are rare in China.” · be you are a friend of Pong. Ping, so you shall be free to go where you will." My grandson will show you what you will" E mustn't stay long," says Rupen **bus I should like to see your quick way of fishing that Ting-Ling spoke about." ***So be it." the, mandarin. Fetching a streng basket with a lid, the boy; waYES. good-bye and the pair aétioll down. kul.
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