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THE HONGKONG | TELEGRAPH,
SATURDAY, JUNE 24, 1950.
:
IF YOU'RE ONE OF THOSE PARENTS. WHO SAY-
'My daughter's crazy
about
clothes.
BERNARD WICKSTEIERD This Week Goes Places Where FASHION IS BIG MONEY
mean. She
TOU all know the girl I "I shall sit up and take notice doesn't when a girl comes to me for a Job and says her only qualifica- tion is that the loves drearing women."
want to be a typist. She doesn't want to be a teacher. It's got to be something more creative and glamorous.
The stage, you suggest. No, she says. What she would really like to be is a fashion designer.
Do you know the gir! now? When she was your she was
for ever dressing dolls, and as
Mait, one of the top dress London, started designers in that way as a boy. He made clothes for his sisters, an oc cupation that gave him plenty
scope because there were 12
of them.
Starting point
the grew older she spent hours that point clear? This gri,
this ICHARD ti domestic
st the mirror wrecking hers who we want to get all mother's at.
vur hands and launch in the fishion world, likes dressag other women. .her mother. her 12 sisters, the neighbours, anglundy.
Now that she's 18 the house the lives in la abnost uninhabit
bke There are, pins every-
to cal where, and you have standing up because the table 15 covere with baskets
wing machmea
If you sit
2-***
a chair there are luve because
ynth material some epeater
prut there, and if you make a fl step on the var gana tread ott pattern lail out for 1 paper cutting.
(Passing fasulon note: When a reporter asked Hardy Amics
bust
HOW FOUR OF
THEM STARTLD
1. NORMAN HARTNELL designed university stope shows
2. HARDY AMIES: described a dress in a letter
3. MATTLI made clothes for his sisters 4. DIGBY MORTON
Tweeds caught his interest.
a rancher
༡
the boss's eye.
(SU another fashion
note:
ENEDES PICHA DESNICS, BIG-PECTA VOOR
"What makes you think it's my father's?"*
Miracles Of Eye Surgery
By LEONARD ZAHN
HE recovery in America six of the eight children of
THE
of six brothers and Joseph Brochu, a shoe fac- sisters from virtual blind- tory foreman, began Having ness stands as a dramatic trouble with their vision. testimonial to the miracles
of modern surgery,
The medical history uf
A disenso corneal dys- trophycovered their eyes with a milk-like film by the the Brochu family of time each child reached the Rochester, New Hampshire, age of 38.
The disease, which doc
is one of the most unusual on record. From the time they were in their teens, Lorn
SATURDAY AT THE DIAMOND HORSESHOE by BILLY ROSE
of
For crying out loud, here is a story my Uncle
Fi
the people |
know, my Uncle Char
lie is the champion when it comes to changing
what sort of women. he led starting at the bottons is not as answered: essential as in many other pro- he dressing "Rich inst.")
Now, how do you get the de- fessiona. Peter Russell had been No one I spoke to could remem-bosses. As I see it, this is A mulher planter in Malaga and ber a mannequin teho ever largely due to a tempera- Theyment which has never per- signer started? Studying the
In Canada before became a good designer, trees of there at the top in't some fetena persanded him to mostly get married or go on
the films.) Hartnell was a much help.
set up as a designer of dresses
The other alternative is to go k Cambridge, (Another passing fashion note:
fashion rahool to ride the flught the father of who drew attention to himself by why are there more successful to
the costumes he designed for men designera than women? background. There are private
university stage flows.
Prihaps for the same
On bis Fare appearances out- chair has to harden his heart to czempo beat Bianctally involved in unposible dress* making ventures,
You can't help feeling sorry for men like that, so I have been prowling round the fashious hausen und Hitting rooMS
pre
mitted him to see eye-to-eye
learn
Dlhy Murton was roh to think men are mute successful magazines, the London County
of painters of women.)
be an architect till he got more interested in the patterns forests than pinns of houses.
The entry of Budy Amies
Ure
On
with an employer-or any body else for that matter. The In his GO years of living the only topic and foaling.
which Charlie agreed with the rest of the world was that Man o' War was a fabulous hunk of horse, and When the bangtail was re- tired to stud in 1921 my for uncle stopped betting keeps and quits..
:chools advertised
Connell is interested in a rchool Unnouliedly, the best thing in the Wed End, and the Royal that could happen to the father College of Arts at South Kin- who sington has a Faculty of Fashion of th
daughter (or son)
for fashions Design with a full-blown pro- even profension was
wanted to go in conventional. He
Lold would be for him to save the feror in charge. thing machines, and got life of
establi hed She is Professor Madge Gar- an already
the land, and she used to be fashion decribing someone's dress in designer would be so grateful editor of Vogrs. At the moment
he has 22 students. them girls.
of tut
Mayfair seeking advice to pass to discover how you do In and make a girl a designer. wasn't a bad
agunent
ift the
by fashion business
letter to an Buni.
Designing calls for.
than technique,
The world I moved in was Jargely inhabited by models and beautiful women, who talked Dair
lily about popping over Paris as if it was only ridir.
Lu bee
Hut refusing to be diverted, I pursued my inquiries and found That the first thing percut must ascertain is whether his daughter la interested in dress ing other people or merely in clothes for hersett.
High rewards THERE
Eltz is fame to be had in the fashion world and, next
to Paris, London is the best place to win it. The reward of
uccess is high, and £5,000
not incominon for a year is designer who knows what she's dolas
But it doesn't go to the gir who can dress only herself. As che woman high in the fashion world Bald: "I'm sick of girla (and young men) who they are going Hartnells because they draw or do needlework.
Quigl
to be NonTILI
Kun.
more CO
Well,
Why? designer. that he would take the daughter
as his assistant.
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By watching, listening to, and
the treat
1 enduring
Cold Shower
• "You have to grow up Un- to be a good designer der 30 you are too naive." "You may gel to the
without top
business acumen, but you won't siy there long.
"Tou musta't confuse fashion drawing, which is ubjective, with fashion de stgang, which is creative."
"The customer
•
is al. ways right. So what do you do when she is wrong? If you can's answer fla no good."
•
"Designing is like wine tasting. You must not only know If the wine is good, but what it will be like a year from now."
work, the girl might be able to pick up enough to do tome ure- ful designing herself that is if she were patient, pulite, intel- gent, and able to stand on her feet all day.
Two
courses
THEY
innst of
that
If it was my horse," he ence told me, "front now on he would get
sour cream
Charlie
"Onions, bunions," she said. "Next time you cry you got to On it show up at Giltel depends the room rent."
came that
Man
o'
Wor America's great. est racehorse, Was
onte beaten dako,
Ho won £62,366
in
stoke money
and shed a line
that has won, over
£1,000,000.
TON
First
two-
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year-old in 1919, died in 1947.
In 1939 his awners turned down en aller of o million dollars (£200,000 (hen) for him
*
Aut Frieda edged Charlie and stuck paper in his face.
heard this
over to
a piece of
side of the
·
believe is hereditary with this particular family, took the colour out of tho children's eyes.
Doors, windows, mirrors and other square objects all looked hazy, blurred and rounded. Passersby were just dim, distant shapes. Voices instead of faces be came their means of iden tifying friends and rela- tives.
But in the last three years, with the aid of the Boston and New York eye hanks, surgeons have re- stored precious sight these stricken children.
Eye Banks
The cyo
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banken have been established to provide curgeon. with corneal transplants. How-
ver, the banka cannot hel every blind person, only those with
certain types of
nyu
trouble.
The dread
disease can be cured by transplanting a healthy cornea from uno person to an other. The operation has been known for more than 100 years, but was used
only in isolated enses until the 1930's Eye aur (cons estimate that today there persons are about 10,000 in the US. who probably could have their sight restored by a corneal graft.
Dr Ramon Castroviejo of New York City, widely known for the transplanting operation, ins given the gift of sight back to of the Brochu three members family.
I
Samo Story
of r.co
There were six
In 1047 he operated on two PEY do a three-year course,
Natalle
Brochu and when
I went there with his hay."
sisters, Mra Lemire, of Biddford, Maine, and
Beatrice Brochu, My uncle looked at it, clapped Miss reped into a room and hurried- ly closed the door again because i
The big
hand to forehend and then Rochester. Beatrice could it was just like those homes i
November at the described earlier, except
funeral of a came to fe with the most for only two months after the of Instead
one dress-mad RUT let me back to my
then "the cloud B
record, wealthy butcher, and for hours uninhibited series of serceclics operation and uncle's employment the chintzes daughter among
before
event Rivington ever the
Came back." But a successful Four autumns ago, unless my there were six.
WILK operation
performed of This brought forth a gasp The curriculum includes com-Aurt Frieda is Obbing, Charlie Street buzzed with exefted talk Wailing Wall ins is reckoned the best way
year later. his job at about the two contestants. How- fred from
from of the Crier's admiration at all the Wils in, but as it at open to pulsory attendance:
even the Factory for Silverman's Candy
ever, because without those
influence we big London dress houses and,
at the in the toffet poor showing
noodle corpse-hardened Mr Herzog him- must consider the others.
For
ut the end of it. If you pass putting kotebup whose father - hasn't the tirl
the on the theory that the mixture man's send-off, the smart mony self, while less inured onlookers you exams,
Ret
the Italian installed the Weeper as a to had to make fists to keep from would appeal to 11:- of saved someone from drowning!
5 favourite.
breaking into applause. This example まず there
1wo
alternative poma
the diploma rates in the trade.
injustice hi known, capitalistic yet industry
the faculty
the most ear-piercing has only pretty hard, and for weeks he
moped
the house unt since Bestly the Bum was shot storied and no ne has
il A side, and try to net inished t
finally got on Frieda's
d in 1931 and his pals imported Course.
"Shouldn' you maybe known from there. This. Has this puidance been any
type hop-entlers from Chlengo. other Janne "yourself has
done. Several help" been
Personally, I am lucky.
die sustursted.
Friends of the deceased designers Ketting £5,000 MY daughter is unly five employment?**
fnum with stoord Such treachery
an the profes. in awe you in the wholesale busine months old and as fat as a ball
emotional
waited. stonis
went bestan that way.
was too much for my So he hasn't yet
oot cf butler.
was 1001 kimman, and before you could wimperia, developed the taste or figure for
"Patte Davis te ind evident that my uncle was in clothes,
launched into a speech which trouble. might have Leen lifte stinight out of King Lear.
courses.
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19 not
One is to start in the dress because the business on the sales or manu just
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around
hin
nerves.
At the end, overcome by bis own clearence, ho burst into
Well by all
accounts it was funeral
Another sister, Mrs Arelene
B. Michel,
of Rochester,
GUMA
next to undergo a transplant, and since then
she has worn
glasses only for reading and fine
And that
S for Willie Gittel, the out-knitting. A burst unnerved hin com- pletely.
Delancey
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Dr Castroviejo operated On night from brother, the Rev. Emile Brochu, Styret to Union of Amampuan College at Wor- Square, classes were raised to rester, Massachusetts, last year. the winner und new champion. The last two to have their sight
Archio and What had Aunt Frieda shown restored were Churlio
to other sister, Mrs Marie B. Hoss pur victory? Well, I'm afraid it of Sommerworth.
They all tell the same story Willie, pacing himself like wasn't exactly ethical, but re
Then he there was the room of this medical magic and say the pro he was, managed at
do what they'l
hey can to help every time rent to conskler. horrendous phrick
It was a newspaper which others similarly afflicted. Charlie paused for breath-ali
and truglet in rezerve for headlined a simple
One of the children, Mrs keping enough
pitce of information-Man of Lemire, said after her operation: War was deart.
"Save [?v•
water works."
convelled my nunt. "With stach n not, you could get a job bon-hools in Ierzne's ali Funeral Parlour."
Frieda was only kidding, but my Uncle Charlie is a literal-. minded man.
"Who not?" he said.
*more grade - A
"I got
genu wing
emation than anybody."
Side
IT should be explained at this point that the professional Is still a fixture in mourner New York's lower East life, and that when relatives a nun a classy want to give send-off they generally hire a set of by-the-hour banshees to provide the tears and lament- prov
ations.
Bull ro
right in Eulogies their place, it is contended with some reason, but the true worth of a man can be more accurate- the amount of ly assessed by breast-beating and hair-tearing which accompany
cxit.
his Krand
a hurricane finish.
An hour later, when it
iver but
was
the shovellion
---ELANGOл kspress sermre) ̧
"I could see who it was ried."-United Press.
mar-
CANON WARNER
you spank a two-year-old?
Should you
"Althougia 200 Of A Derp much in love still, vet after six years we spend the greater part of our time quarrelling and nagging af one another until we are almost always miserable, and I begin to fear for the happiness of our two-year-old daughter. We make repeated attempts to be nice with each other, but these always seem to end in more quarrels. Part ny the trouble ta over the upbringing of our little girl. fic expects me to slap her for every tiny error."
TWO-YEAR-OLD can
My uncle got the job at Her-A be a wilful little mon-
ZOR'S
and if I may be per-
mitted a bad joke, made good key. She is no doubt get- with a splash-In fact, within ting her teeth still, and a
a few months he was conceded
Js,
to be top man in his field. That child of this age often finds it very exasperating not to with one exception, cadmium-throated gent named he able to put into under- Wille Gittel, who had been standing words the things
since professionally
Lobbing the age of nine,
And
she
wants her parents to as was inevitable, nado. Don't be surprised at epochal rivalry sprang up beher tantrums. tween Willlo the Weeper and
the new contender. Charlie the Crier.
Get your husband to see all this. We men can be very un- imaginative creatures, especial- The following spring my uncle suffered a major setback ly when our own domestic con- threatened by o inventence is tho funeral of an portant noodle magnate he was high-spirited toddler. Your hus- band 10 paying his little badly outblubbered by Willie.
"Ho run in on me a oniun." daughter the foolish compliment
who of treating her as his equal. told everybody Charlie
of "What kind would laten. ethics la thn17"
TIS
her. She is likely
then to kick time if you take this line. You over the traces completely. She will be badgered by the person had never been given a chance who says a woman has no right to "do. the right" for its own to cling to a man who doesn't sake, but only from fear of the want her. consequences if the didn't
Divorce? No!
own your
You will be accused of a re- Your own
line is the right vengeful spirit. When you got you may one, and your husband should to the High Court
who be thankful that he didn't well find certain judges marry the kind of woman you believe you are mistaken. Ob- solicitor viously so often see on a crowded pave-
a fool in more ment slapping and tugging at thinks you are
And you will same Innocent but fidgety child. senses than one.
have heavy burden to carry alone. But no one can force a woman to divorce her husband.
"Good I would say to you: fuck in the stand you are mak- ind for the sake of future enerations. Face the music. Remember you are not alone in taking seriously your marriage vows: other women are suffer. Ing like you for the sake of those who will one day marry."
I have not had a penny from my husband for two and a half years, when he mic for a vounper Now that ant coman. taking it to the Ligh Court and refuse to divorce him, he ta making things so awkward, pre- tending he has no money, every. thing is mortgaged, etc., though he has a good business. I have three children with vie, ona an invalid. I am afraid that the court will oward me a smell maintenance, and will also make me divorce him. My solicitor said altould have to divorce him. 1 don't know which way to turn. Can you help me?
a growing YOU have joined
urmy of wives who have come to see the effect on society which every application divorce inevitably must have,
As for money, a High Court Judgo han certain methods open to him of getting at the real financial condition of a hus band. You can trust him to get you justice, whatever his own personal viewa may be.
If your husband defaults in the payments that he is ordered for to make, report to the court at
before
begin piling up. The court has power
once,
BITOUS
If
In a society where divorce has to distrain upon his goods, become an accepted common his fallure to pay is due to his He is doing something wOIFC. A child who is driven, by the place you at once get an alarm wilful refuzal or to his culpable mar neglect, the maxintim perfor to tread the ing increase of recklesy His point, of course, was well fear of slapping,
taker, since
lachrymal path of "virtue" is going to be ringes, broken homes, frighten- for which he stimulants are cutlawed by the her father's headache when she ed children, and scheming co- prison is three montha Mourners Guild. But these gets older. A time will come respondents.
So you refuse to divorce your professional nlcetics didn't in when he will no longer be able
to use physical violence upon husband. Don't expect an easy terest my aunt.
can be sent to
You have a duty to your calldren to act at suce.
-{London Express Service)
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