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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY, 16, `· 1953.`

UAWEEK-END WOMANSENSE

Eve Perrick LUNCHES IN LONDON WITH THE SMARTEST GİRL IN PARIS Enter mademoiselle

TO SHOW US HOW TO ADD A TOUCH OF · ELEGANCE

TOOK the girl who has just been elected The Most Striking Looking Woman in Paris" to the smartest res- taurant in London. This is what happened.

Twenty-one-year-old law student and model girl Daniele Santoin (right), who won the title made an effective enough entrance.

Harriet Cohen stopped to admire her necklace; Terenco Rattigan broke off his conversation with, Anatole da. Grunwald and looked interested: an Agirrican, in blissful ignorance, sald to his com- pimions-These British girls certainly have some.

Mile. Bahtoln was enjoying herself, too, Liis, it seemed, since she had given up her earlier hopes of becoming a lawyer and taken up modelling in-- strail, was just wonderful,

She koops on winning

the

President of She had

met M. Auriol, France, and actor Fernandel. And she kept on wimming titles,

As well as the "Striking Looking" champion" she was niso the "Girl with the Second Smallest Waist (10ins.) in France." And just two weeks ago she had borrowed a £230 corgi and taken first prize in the "Beauty and, the Beast" contest.

She was specially happy about that, "All the mo: distinguished worgen. In Paris, like Princess Ghika and the Comtesse de la Rochefoucauld, en- tered for it--but I won," purred Dantele.

So she had little regret about

neglecting her law studies.

Anyway, here was her chance.

to do a little Judging on the

6 Mink?

Time

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side. I whispered to Paris's, they thought of g

most elegant lady: "What are your views on the women here?" Daniele looked around care- fully and gave her verdict.

"Algrettes," she said, firmly dismissing the editor of s woman's magazine, "should never be worn in the after noon.":, certain famous actress looked res distingute but tren fatiguee," and a. lesser-known actress should not have chosen a straw daisy-trimmed hai to wear with a fur cont.

A marchioness in mink and yellow bonnet got the nccalade for the best-dressed woman "But then," sighed Mlle. there. Santoin, J'mlak. js always elegant. It's about time some- body thought of ⚫ something new,"

AFTER The tiger-shooting season has ended, the Rajah of Gauripur finds himself with 22 tamed elephants on his hands and is prepared to sell at bar- gain prices

something new

VIRGINIA MCKENNA

A place with the clile,

✯ TIGERS (CHEAP) hence its name." Fifty-year-old Miles Barker, from Knockholt, Kent, works in a soap factory ns editor of a cyclopedia, which is baby talk for a pocket edition encyclopedia. I had asked her what her job had taught her,

The learned lady was just task of reading through the book's 992

nishing her annual

pages on every subject anyour think of-Prominent

The animals, all genuine wild in the jungle and made docile beasts which have been caught by playing loud music at the for night, on end so that they could not sleep and Bnally gave in, have been reduced

for his tremendous money- saver,The

can

Party Hors d'Oeuvres Make A Hit With Guests

By IDA BAILEY. ALLEN “

"Dors d'oeuvres to bake in, hot, oven, 423 F.

¡IFFERENT and new a fork. Brush with melted butter, dust with paprilia, and

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serve at parties," said an Serve at once. American TV and radio-star,

Here are some suggestions to relieve the monotony:

fors d'Oeuvres: of peclect

water to liverwurk

Dinnor

Tomato Jutco ́ Cocktail Corned Beef with Homo-radish Mustard

Potatoes Carrots, Cabbago Frutis Limo Gelatin Coffee

Milk

Teo

Party Hors d'Ocuvres Vegetable Noteli thin rounds corrola, Place In

Trick of the Chef crisp. Dice cubes of

Place cooked corned beef In and impale en pleks. Top each a baking pan. Pour over 4. with a carrot "flower" and Blick vinegar drained from sweet into a grapefruit with the lower pickics. Cover with c. part sliced off so the fruit will brown sugar mixed with 4 tsp. stand upright. Border with pastry splee, 3% e, fine crumbs celery curls, crisp radishes with and 1 tbeo, quepared mustard. their green leaves, and sliced Bako 45 min. at 350° F. Buted cucumber..

Onion Cheero Tidbits: Cut charp Cheddar cheese into small cubes, Impale en picks and top cach with a tiny pearl onion. Arrange a cirected in the preceding recipe,

A Brace of Canapos Baton Canapts: Fry or broll b. Chinelleed bacon until crisp. Dmin "and crush fine. Combine with. 1⁄2 e. chutney sauce and spread 'on crisp-fried allees & bread, fingers of Melba toost or crisp cocktail cruckers, Sally Bea Canapes: Rub 34 c. flaked crabmeat, lobster or shrimp to a paste. Add 8 minced stuffed olives, 1 tsp. lemon juice, 11⁄2 tap, paprika and 9 drops tabasca Blend with a very little silit mayonnaise. Serve on conape biscuits or Fallincs. olive slice.

Top cach

with on

Hot Chocto Ban Bouchees

7.

Roll rich ple pastry to 1-in, thickness. Cut in 2-in, squares, On half of coch placo 1 tsp. nappy cheese. Fold over, tum- over fashion, and press the edges together with the tines of

THE THINGS THEY BUY

THE SKIRT ---Grass and Straw

London.

ONDON'S stores are crowded

By HAZEL MEYRICK

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spring. seems to have dis- appeared this year. good

Beach Look

BY VERA WINSTON

SOMETHING now, different

at the moment with two sess in pure gold. This is done by a thing, too. I bought one last and pretty for the right, figure

of harassed shoppers: London ers planning to escape from the copital, scorching for holiday

ounts; and averseas visitors, here for the Coronation, looking for clothes to take back as sou- venirs.

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new process which means you

summer, and was walking out in it, when the thing suddenly instead of putting it in a glass sprung backwards off my head

and

con wash and wear the scarf

ease. It costs five guineas.

bus,

is the bathing suit with the wrapped look. It is demonstrated here by a suit of clasticised was annihilated under arayon foille. The shirred bust section' rets into tho slighuy I've never worn

since.

line. surplice

The diagonally scamed front panel, by which the wrapped look is achieved, is slightly draped at

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cuffed

THE CROWNLESS HAT is a Prints on, hats may be inbut circle of straw with a hola in - not those made by bus wheels. THE SILK SUIT-something the centre where the crown between a garden party dress should be. Rudolph, Digby THE GRASS · SKINT has the side. The sult is effective and a jumper-sult. Introduced Morton's pet milliner,

showed

come to town, for the girls who in either dark or pastel tones by Lachasses in his spring col-it in the form of a giant want-to-go-native-Schiaparelli and pretty sure-to-be a hit for

cartwheel. lection, it is now copied in the scalloped

Now took over n London night-club | the summer. ready-to-wear

are making their own for the evening It a womens ranges.

to show her sleeveless, collarless, and with by buying-up - cheap straw

́own_exotic_version of it. It was a breath-taking neckline that sombreros

and cutting

the made from fine strands art.

mado

mire makes it practically topless. crowns out of them.

The suit is made of coarse You tie a coloured scarf round pulk, sewn into place by hand in a series of spiralled your head, gypsy fashion,

It might at one timo plonk the straw brim over tha

silk twill, in muted colours like

coffee, porridge and grey. in

in

В

the inexpensive ranges it comes

dupion.

and

owed a vogue allegiance

wear the brim on its own, tied to the hula-hula girl's original

烈 new crease-resisting rayon in place with voluminous, but in this form it looked frank→ beekeeper's veil; or draw your ly Mae West (one of Schlapa-

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customers).

relli's

"Genuine' grass skirts are sell-

liko hot cakes ing

to holiday makers who

who want something different for tho beach, or

de butantes who want

shotk to mother anu Impress

their friends at parties, Thead skirts are made from lacqueros rafla or straw, in emerald, black and lush scarlet. There are match- ing strapless tops of poplin, trimmed with waving fronds of grass and the skirts Dre held together by circles of plaited rata. But oll beware at cigarette endal

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the dorriere, is fastened in front a giant collage loaf chignon.

The jacket dips down towards hair up through the centre Info

pebble-sized buttons. The by neckline is either a decollete

THE PACKABLE HAT is be People, Events, General In-shoulderwide square, or a deep ing bought by people with suit from

Iormation, Medical Dictionary, cut-away circle. 3,000 rupees (£250) a head to Buy Culture, Domestic Pets,

case trouble. It is an Anglicised The skirt

features ·ឆ im- version of Givenchy's Parla half that figure.

and lots and lots of etreleras. portant new line. It has no sido chapeau-a straight strip of Mr Butler can take no credit

seems but a Bat box pleat in polished white baku straw are She has been doing the job front, shaped like a mermaid's wound tightly round the head the for five years

stil inil. The sleeves are merely into a topless fez, buttoned to- now, but market valuo of elephants has inds that it's the little odd, broad shoulder-straps.

gether at the back, dropped considerably, since the usually useless, bits or informa

* maharajahs in the new India

ch that stick In the mind. THE SILK SCARF they're all are cutting down their

buying, is one created by standards.

added: "I rill" haven't Oilver Messel, the theatrical de found out what an ephah is, signer. It's a Coronation square except u tenih of a

homer." of pink silk with the Royal (Ephalis aren't in the cyclo- cipher, Coronation coach, and other emblems Imprinted on it pedis.)

to

rajah Bay's

living

SNOWPIECE

A NEW face has been added

the distinguished portrait- gallery in Court photographer Dorothy Wilding's Bond Street show-case.

She'

..

Miss Barker, a B.Sc., one-time specialist ir mathematics, physles, and meteorology, con bo considered today as a good all-rounder, who could prob-

Elected to the elite which ranges from the Queen. Princess ·ably make a fortune in Ameri- Margaret, and the Duke of con radio quiz 'programmės. Edinburgh to› Douglas Fair-

banks and Noel Coward,... the She confessed that her big- pretty but only recently rest heallacho was Prominent Instinctress: Virginia, Me- People, Names become famous Kenna.

overnight--others fude OWDY, and events always seem to hap- pen at a bad time for going to Prest.

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★ A BOUQUET

Still 'Mister'

TMOVEILJOYED to learn that Stanley Baker, a newish actor who specialises in tough- guy Foles (the nasty man in "Bir Winston, I'm afcald, Is "The Cruci Sea," and a nastier going to be plain Mr Churchill ond in a forthcoming Alan Ladd for another year and a half as pletare, can be often most far as we're concerned. And wedk-ends acrving flowers in Malenkov. cropped up too late his wife's florist shop in the to make the next edition. Brompton Road,***

ang.co

LEARNED LADY

best sting

Then when we add a new name to the llit, an old one,

somewhere near it, has to bo

talen out to make room. This year, for instance, I'm putting In Norman Douglas and taking out Admiral Docaliz

EA HOMER," said Milas Mary Farker.

Hebrew dry mesure containing 10 ephths.

As you can, sóc, it's quite a hooooj is; a bird that

harassing job at times. For occasionalleviate Britain in colaxation Milas Darker, rends the spring and has very hand Ruskin And Glide. pogodnplumage:of---golden bust colour, and a peculiar cry and Gi=(London Express Service),

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Another suitcase-happy hat on sale is a copy of one of Dior's models. It is close-fitting akull cap of grey cotton denim, with curled petal edges which over- shadow the face,

the kind hal head by 0

The bicycle clip that grips your

The English Look is typified by thezy two dreises de- "signed for wear durtig, Congriation work,

*** • LEFT: For Presentation parties initii" shows a simply cut drem of white sell-siriped organza, with a wide skirt ani a bunch of marguerites sucked into the bell With It goes a parasol in matching, material

HIGHTS To wear at the Coronation service, Arthur Banka has designed this Victorian-style sown in white brogade}}} {X}, has a pleated tulle pelilecat, front cared with brocade fedyes 1, and roses;; and sprinkled with silver, sequins, andidimiadaj

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THE PATCHWORK SKIRT is this week's Cinderella story, An enterprising London- designer found a way of using up scrops of material lying around in her workroom by making them up into circular patchwork

skirts. They're on display in all the

and pro

are being salona sizce upon by

rich girls who want to cultivate a poor look.

Meanwhile,

from the chall- stores, poor girls are buying

model

similar skirts at a fraction of the price of the original, made up in a patchwork print so reui that you have to handle It tri tell the difference.

on

In

Madam, your slip is showing. but not in the new petticoats salo In London... Made

cottton

cambric with camisolo tops, they have a triple row at pleat edging round the hem, if your allp is too long for you, you just cut it off of the appropriate row &faultching,

Tall girls in London are look- ing with envy on their apposita number overseas. Nows comer that British designers have now Inverted nylon stock- ingg. that stretch to at females -with-long legs;

This means to wide gap be ‚tween : girdle', and stocking-top, no more being bent doubld by yard-long suspenders, But, ilko most good things In Britzinat -the “rooment; they're for export only, to, you'll be seeing them before we do.

Peek Preans Piscuits

Coronation Souvenir "THE QUEEN'S DRUM"

receives special commendation by the Council of Industrial Design and as a result thereof a rare tribute, by "The Times", London In the publication of a photograph of the Drum in the issue of 24th February 1953. ́ ́2; It marks: an ideal" "Coronation gift and is avaliable at all leading Stores and Compradores. ›

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