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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1957.

WEEK-END WOMANSENSE

WOMEN'S PAGE

The Rise

of the Redhead

the

AY voto for the girl to most likely to succoed this autumin

goeo to lady

whose hair (whether by nature or art) looks like a copper leaf.

-

The firm that produces one of the most popular tines in semi-permanent rinses no one speaks the rude word "¿yd'

Raving

immateriai me absolutely whether or not she can act.

red-headed beauties like Miss Parker just ought to stand frequently in front of the cameras, while other plainer elvis pluk up the dramatic frag- ments of the story.

A change

to be a brunette but felt

The woman who wants to wear

four tortoises

((TELIEVE it or not"

"Bald

the elegant young man in the dark grey suit, as he closed the glass- doors of his pink-velvet lined cupboard-"aho_dnsh. ed in with four small tor-

toises and said: 'make me a necklace or a couple of clips From these.

"“They've given me sleep. less nights, those tortoises. I can't think what to do with them."

The speaker was Michael Gosschalk, a jewellery de- signer who had just opened a little Aladdin's cave of a shop in Belgravia.

REMADE

ones

The croises, jewelled naturally, were "the property of a lady" tas they say when they don't want to give names) who wanted thera broken down and one Important Into tango-teas remade and burning passion could De Piece. the cornст.

The just around redhaired girls are back.

Temptation and

She had seen the has made for John

SIRIOL HUGH JONES | wife.

Are You The

brooch he Siddley's

"Odds and ends," said John, describing it to me. "Some tour- maline earclips I gave her years ago, her engagement ring, a ruby and diamond brooch that some- body left her and a rather tussy Kitle cocktail ring-all combined to make une really lovely flower spray. (I've sketched it.)

Gosschallt hay very dreided views about English- women-jewellery-wine, that is. "They will dot themselves gver with itle odd tilts,

"Frenchwomen are so different. Oh, I know how everyone gos, of the

Mr

on about the elegance

Clinging Type?

any more—says that Golden MY second redhead, who used Chestnut, Auburn, and Deep Auburn now top the list of the trend of the time, is Marie-

Heleno Artoul, aged 23, hair DGAR BERGEN, the ERIC LYONS, an architect Most revolutionary of all, he

American ventrilo-

colours in demand,

Since the war, what pretty little actress-type girin have got themselves made into in ternational myths and objects of widespread worship?

I'd say Brst Grace Kelly, as nice a mixture of health, purity, and sophistication as the curi of lemon peel in a dry martini; everything a blande ought to be.

to

And then Audrey Hepburn, introvert, never quite uniensed, with endlessly brimming eyes; everything a brunette ought be. (Let no one remind ine of Marilyn Monroe

She la no fashion,

but rather

11סס

矗

of a

temporary manifestation

basle truth about humanity. In

the colour of rich, ripe conker

and cut in that extremely exquist, la a man with a good pensive, castial way that looks as though you can't and the word for the English wo lime to brush it out of your mail. eyebrows.

"The

Volce-and oh,

who 1p designing modern people, takes blocks of Ents for really modern the view that you cannot afford to be senti- mental if you want to be com- fortable.

has done away with the re- piece.

in

French, but it's trite. They con- centrate their jewels instead of scattering them,"

to

He's right, too. From precious stones Jewellery of a very different kind. The tiaras, earrings and brucelets that Coral Browne wears in the current production of Hamlet, at the Old Vic, aro made from gilt Cellophane braid, lurex gauze, gold' Idd and Perspex. The result, even at very close quarters, is magnificent,

The Jong pointed lina ka shoën la famly establiked. In a collection of shocs shown by Chrisilan. Dior; ka. London « few days ago this satin slipper with a high Jewelled tonguo proved most popular. The material is satin and the colour Apricot-Keystone.

Sweets For The Sweet

By Alice Donhoff

Patrick Ide, of the Old Vic, invited me

to go behind the scenes und see them for myself. "I thought they might have a practical application for yourXHEN you feel extra am readers," said he. "They can't bitious and the scEN- all go to Cartier."

sion calls for something special, consider preparing Angel Alaska.

A NEW LINE

These jewels" are the work of Barbara Wilkes. "She's done To serve 8-10, which makes Heraldry-banners and so on this a party recipe, combine 1 but this is an entirely new line pky, chocolate or butterscotch for her. We're thrilled with mix and 1 e, water in a small them and so Coral. They are sauce-pan. Cook over moder- so unlike the usual stage jewel- ato heat, stirring constantly, eryfeather light. Positively until mixture Hartnell In feeling, aren't begins to boil.

they?"

pudding over lower and mid- dle layers.

Prepare meringue topping by beating 3 egg whites until stif but not dry, Blond 1/3 c sugar and 14 tsp. vanilla ox truet -gradually. Continuo beating until the meringue stands in peaks, Sprand meringue over sides and top of stacked cake.

min

Brown quickly in hot oven

thickens and (450 FJ for approximately 5

Blend a little of the pudding Into 1 beaten egg yolk, Then beat into bat mixture in Boll a Jew minutes Kauce-pan.

hot

longer, stirring constantly, then ed fluvoure, Fluco remove from heat.

Ice

To serve, alice crosswise. I thought them quite lovely

For another pretty party and can well imagine them, in

special, but one that la easy to and pearls, makny silver

fix, have 12 sponge cake shells and 3 pts, ice cream in assort- nebanting bridal head-dresses. But practical application"

small no. There's no itsy bitsy "maite

scoop of each of the 3 yourself a tinya for 35, 8d." story Slice one medium-sized cream flavours in each sponge pound or angel food cnico cake Bhell. Crush 2 pt. trazen I'd just as soon advise my horizontally, into 1 equal or sweetened fresh berries. readers to buy themselves on layers. Place lower layer on Serve the strawberries over old iron bedstead and make DIL ungreased cooldo shoot. each to make 12 colourful, themselves a Reg Butler statue. [Replace layers, spreading % . flavourful dose-gay cakes.

there.

SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS

Women

:

"As long as the heating system is efficient you don't need them.

TTS scent and sensibility

dress, By JOY MATTHEWS

on your and they make a purely artificial

petticoat. -focus for a room. People want to

from now on.

Sprinkle a little on the Ironing board, in the water you rinse group round the windows one thing I notiond

are wearying of buying ex- told to use their perfume lavish your undies in. Whare Suzy is open-air and

The when I arrived in London was

only really minder summer or round a table. Transationtle and all-American

The result of all this is that girlish with only a trace of the

the wanderful English voice, buildings in this country today"Five years ago I designed a pensive French perfume at ly and all the time.

to They are told: Put scent on the sweet smell of success is no exotle, Mademoiselle

You see--I am used to listen ere nearly all bincts of offices, show-piece flat, and of all the anything from £3 38. Arnoul

now from which the red business hundreds of people who trooped £21 a bottle and getting your furs, your letters, your longer French at 25 65. a time, Ip to Is sparrow-boned, Latin, and

man retums in tils streamlined through, only about five com nothing from it but a faint sheets, on the tem-line of your but good old English lavender. fragile, looking delicately at the wonderful a good English volce

to his out-of-date mented on the absence of a framell that nobody seems to 1957 car big world from out of the seems to me after those high-

The rest did not even golden eyes of a cautious little pitched, jerity American voices.

house, complele with crazy place,

notice, russot-coloured fox.

paving paths, big fireplaces, notice." "When a woman speaks she and gabled roofs." You know. gives away a lot, You can tell if she is affected, of all, insincere;

or, most neurodice. Just by her voice on the telephone. And you can tell if she is the clinging-vine type Loo,"

And her Alm career has started with a role in "Cid."

Tradition

oas form or another, she has NOT all

always been with us).

Innocents

In the nuts he designs the living-rooms are as big as ho can make them.

Insulated

the popular myths about redheads are true; You can have bluzing red haft

Although Mr Bergen admires " have windows as big as without freckles, or a danger the Englishwoman's voice, he is possible

to make the

Tomy ous temper, or green eyes, or shocked by the terrible way in look even more spaciou Irish parentage.

I which so many women seem to And

always Havo NOW take it to be the furn of

the the redheads, the way these different, very often elings

But something odd, magical,] try to imitate Americans. "It kitchen built of the Hving

to doesn't sound American, it just room 50 that tite

wife things Ko in weil-ordered

doesn't feel too cut off while she cycles; and of two redheads in red-headed girls in countries sounds stupid."

toils away. particular, both tapping their where they are le a minority

the maybe it only as a result.

"I never design 1 separate tiny pointed Angers on modest cottage door of the flm having rebelled against

dining-room. It is waste of space industry, Be a couple of irna- called "Ginger" and "Carrots

In this servantless age, unless

psic for It specially cent Little Red Riding Hoods as a child.

people which they rarely do. And the walls and floors are Insulated so that you don't have to listen to your neighbour's radio.

standing about waiting to be gobbled up.

The first is Suzy Parker, Now Suzy Parker is sister to the model Cecil Beaton has some-

of

being

Revival

THE Victorian view-point has It is impossible to Imagine taken Bhe Place of the the impish verve of Kay Regency splendour of D fcw Kendall without that spanking years af, red crown of hers-it even melted Rex HarTİBON.

It

Two of the prettiest examples is impossible to imagine have seen this week:: ((1) A times described as the greatest, Arlene Dahl, one of the most charming pink and green trellis Dorian Leigh (I seem to remem- beautiful women alive,

with wallpaper, selling at only 5s. ber once learning that there was anything but red hair,

24. a roll. Wonderful for a yet a third sister in this anton- ishing family and that she was called, though it may seem too good to be true, Georgia Belle).

"It is a cheap thing for archi, tects to do--but too many of them never give it a thought."

He builds bathrooms leading that of the bedrooms,

So

It seemed the most natural nursery hall, or a young girl's you don't have to trail along the thing in the world for Peggy bedroom. (2) A rehash of an corridor to take your plunge.

Dior's girls

Ashcroft to wear д copper-ald favoucita Victorian black coloured poay tall wig when landscape print transferred to she played Cleopatra (the while china, costing 829, Od. Dorian's little sister Suzy has ironic legend was that the bele

for a C-ploče tea-set. wild shoulder-length hair the came from a convent). colour of new pennies, looks Elizabeth Tudor and

Mary ravishing in sugar-pink, has Stewart were inevitable red- often played a dizzy Galaica to heads. So was the Name- the Pygmalion of fashion photo. coloured eccentric Marquesa grapher Aveston's camera, and Creati,

darling of who well to fancy A young Mademoiselle of the is frequently photographed in a twenties, whirlwind furry of movemont dress parties lending a chained that among the more leopard, or dressed as Saint statuesque and ladylke girls Sebastian stuck full of arrows she has tho look of a crazy that should have lit up electrl- speedboat that has got loose cally had not the inarquesa amang a lot of stately and be short-circulled herself at calmed yachts.

last moment.

50

the

the

the

Revival DOSSIBLY the craze for red hair (and there are count- She less red-toned rinses on The

without Pos

Koving learned the other side of the camera trorn masters she has tried her hand ot fashion photography extravagant success. And has had a shot at acting in Alms.

Someone should really see to it that Mas Parker pressen on with the flm career. It seems

Household Hints

if you press a

NNA GAYLOR, the newest

French screen, is not u fan of Christian Dior, although he enn how afford to Ko to him for her clothes,

"I thi Dior is for the very tall and very thin Ek:1," ahe said. "He is best, I think, for the American girl. I get, most of my clothes from Uttle boutiques.

You see, I was once very market) is yet another angle on poor as a student in Paris, and the twenties revival, For I used to spend a lot of time was in the twenties that Clare ] guzing in the shop windows and Bow, the It Girl, made a pas wishing. Now I care o in and slonate picture called "Red bay and I do just that. I buy fluir." with a script by the an odd sweater, a pretty pair of most flory and fabulous redhand shoes, a pair of gloves." of them all, the groen-eyed

Ellinor Glyn, who enjoyed re- elining on Ugor skins.

Long-haired Anna was Wear- In a pale grey flannel skirt,

the i Airport,

at Glaston

No time

TIE pep-talk gang is being strong. Every girl is being told to plan her wardrobe; get the daily habit of beauty; put new life into her hair; bleach away her suntan; and try A calorie diet.

Once scent was a symbol of Now it is a symbol of

sex.

money.

For the scent users have

make

found that they cannot their bottles last for more than a few weeks, and if they do all the fragrance fanaties tell them to do, for only a faw days.

"We find that women Just Not only are their bodies being won't pay for expensive per- pepped up, but their minds too. fume these days," Fold tho Take painting lessons! Learn a buyer of the perfumery depart new language! Attend a cookeryment of a big store. "At Christ- course! Try out the new dancing mas the men come in and buy stopal yell the brain washers.

it, but the women are going for Personalities, are being brushed the cau de Colognes, the laven up, Chunky jerseys are being der, and tallet waters." knitted for winter. Exercises to tone up-or pare down-are being performed morning and

night.

That is all very well, but where does it get a girl? She is healthy, beautiful, well-dressed and chockful of new ideas, but she hasn't a minute to spare to

SIMPLE

PE reason is aimple. If you want to get any effect from scent you must use a lot of it.

The days when a faint dab try out her brand-new personal-behind each car that was so ity on man.

discreet it did not notice gune. Women have been told JOY MATTHEWS to smell nice. They have been

The mysterious hour...

and

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"A girl with such an appear a gray cashmere sweater ane must be badi Red hair bought garment and black eyelashes and green cream, high-heeled, bointed- between wearings, first spofigo, oyest No really nice womunton shoes, no jewellery except a out any sisins. If these aren't creature could have colouring very narrow Swim gold watch. removed, they will be set by like that! She must be stoned!" the heat of the iron."

she ironically, but with *** Hva

dry sweaters more than a touch of self-nicleta, and usually low-healed congratulation in the exclan shoes, I hate getting dressed Never wring out glass Abreton marks, wrote in her dlaty-up,

Rectato taffela materials Stone the redheads! A happy after laundering. These fabrics, taught for those bored, by the whether. crtuine or a fully Dellid pleasures of sicile and ponder. I put on a dress from petticoat. should be washed the teaspounful of coffee that fisuri-be, kis, encrest Deansinine→→→ without seruibing hung up to these days Turks under the thien) and high-heeled shoes. Your 100% drip dry.

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