1938-02-16 — Page 4

Happy Teething Time

TEE

and yet baby is perfectly con- EETHING time

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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1938.

What's Become

Become of the

Shoulder

Victorian

?

(the shoulders with

that beautiful slope) •

By Betty Shannon

THE

THE tominine shoulder has never) which characterized the top of the been so important, nor as classie, areping bodice of the 1830s, 108 and As in the time when Queen Victoria 50s and longer. was a lovely young thing presiding over the glitterlag court of Great Britain, with a tact and poise that amazed the diplomats of the day.

Shoulders before had been worn undraped. In fact, In the Empire period which preceded Victoria's, the whole body had been wrapped in a mere sarap of thin white or gandle or lawn. put on dampened so that it would cling to the form. But the shoulders had not hien bared so amply, and yet with mach decorum, as in "the earlier days of Queen Victoria" when, under their ebawla or capes, ladies' "clearan dropped lower and lower from the shoulder" and, remarkably enough, remained at a precarions level with- ou the aid of straps.

Recent Paris fashion openings forecasted a return of the off-the shoulder gown with the lavish địa play of the beautiful contour which made the Court, of Queen Victoria (and of Napoleon 111 and Eugeale of France, too) a never-tailing delight to the portali painter and the etcher of the early Nineteenth Century.

Would such a revival be possible, we wondered. "

Where are the lusciously round- ing, alluring shoulders that alopod B gracefully into dimy berthas and tarlatan Behus, rosehads, blonde lace rumes. ruching and bows, with-

1 any visible means of support,)

Look around you. There doesn't seem to be much to prohibit one from sooing almost any shoulders today. But can any one and a real, honest-to-goodness stoping Victorian shoulder anywhere? Unless one bas een some of the recent pores of the enchanting Atas Neugle in Herbert

(Right) Anun Neugie in "PIC FORIA THE GREAT." (inset) Sketch of a Victorian drawing roum from an old painting, .. (Below) Display of decolleté charmi at the wedding of Vic turia and Albert, from a paint- ing of the period.

this aim is the only ideally eloping!

Says Mr. Myera. "Today athletics motor driving and xil the sports anz activities of women have tighteners and strengthened their minds, as well as their back-bozes, and have squared their shoulders."

Miss Frances Robinson-Duff, das tinguishedNew York dramalie. coach who has had many a loading light of Hollywood and the stage. under her rotolage, agreed that the noticeable dearth of sloping shoul ders today is due to the rivactly what athletle mindedness of modern we

mee.

lo analyzing the shoulder fron- the point of view of action, she calls. 1t the thermometer of the passtour and sensibilities," to use Delsarte's classification. The Victorian matron. with ter calm even shoulders, an less her chest was porked up so that it expressed self righteousness.

con

Wilcoa's "Victoria the Great" lo showed diguity, and self-assurabre

One fashion expert whom shoulder, I have seen since ́l can resulted insisted that girls' would look member. Because, the shoulders of as they did in the Victorian ern it the ladies of today seem to rus pre they had the same sort of clothes

and the same sort of corsets. ponderantly square.

Where is one ta suppose the pret ty. satiny shoulders of Victoria's carlier day have goo

Jerome Myers, distinguished Now York patuter and etcher. saya that sloping shoulders have gone because women no longer, do “aloplug things" or think "slepitgly."

"Sloping shoulders." said Mr. My ers, to his studio si Carnegie Hall, "wen! with weak spines, leisure, embroideries, playing the barp- and an income. Winterhalter and the other Court artista of the day ra corded only the aristocratic women of wealth and fashion. picturing their best polats, without doubt.in their most dattering lights.”

"Corsets made all ite difference in the world," she says. "in a lady's shape; and so do the lines of the dresses. The Victorian corsels were broad and matronly. They pushed up the bust, and the top of the Victo rinn ceanty's anatomy settled down Into the duffy bertha of ber dress. or the tarlatan or embroidery that awatbed ber around, like the top of plo cushion, with a large cameo in the middle of the front neckline.

This was Mrs. Albert Wheelan, for many years costume dealguer for David Belzato, who ought to kdow how clothes change a lady's tonka. Perhaps we will have a chance to

Two large volumes of engravingsace, with the new fashions predicted of "The Females of the Aristocracy

of Queen Victoria's Court," done by William and Edward Finden. pub-

from Paris.

As to the aorals involved in wearing a bodice est practically to 1shed in 1849, show bighly virtuous the waist line in front and in back. Victorias lady after lady with the my interviewees all agres that Vio lovely sloping shoulders. The old toria and the women of bar contury. fashion plates in America's Godey's ; and class probably never thought Lady's Book lavariably present beyond the fact that the shoulder their crinolined fashion models in bera type of dress was the height.

of fashion. keeping with the Victorian form..

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JAPANESE HOLD MOORISH CAVALRY ·

FRENCH LINER

SAVE BRIDGE

Salamanca, Feb. 15.

It is reported from the Ternel

ri

FILM OF QUEEN BOMBERS AND

VICTORIA

POLICE WORK

London, Feb. 14.

The Prime Minister, Mr. Neville

Crew Said To Have front that Nationalist troops have To Be Shown Here Chamberlain, was asked in Com

Filmed Fortified

Zone

Shanghai, Feb. 15.

succeeded in consolidating their positions on the right bank of the Alfambra River.

&

Next Week

An attempt by retreating Gov- ernment troops to blow up bridge was frustrated at the last

1

-The French liner President moment by an attack undertaken Doumer, en route to Shanghai from Kobe, was stopped by the by Moorish cavalry fighting for

the Nationalists. Japanese last night at Rokuren,

A severe snowstorm yesterday Just after crossing the Shimono-

the resumption prevented seki Straits.

operations on this front.

28 an

STONE QUARRY COLLAPSES

THIRTY WORKMEN BURIED

máns to give. assurance example to other nations that the Ciovernment would prohibit the Hong Kong will be able to see use of bombing aeroplanes for

Budapest, Feb. 15. any territory

Thirty workmen were buried the world-acclaimed film, "Vic-pollee purposes in

under British control.

that beneath a huge fall of stone as a toris. the Great," next week when

Mr. Chamberlain replied it opens with a gala premiere night the Government was not prepared result of the collapse of a stone at the Queen's Theatre on Friday, to imit the activities of the Air February 25.

of

The picture will also be released next day at the Alhambra.

The Government.

No further progress has been re- the

f

he

Force except as part of an inter- quarry at the foot of the Matra

mountains national agreement.

added. A rescue party has so far suc- would be fully prepared to give ceeded in extricating only ave of The name part played by such an assurance ported fron Estremadura Anna Neagle and Anton Walbrook agreement with other countries the workers. All tive were very

is in the role of Prince Consort. was possible.(British Wireless).

Bookings should be made early

Some members of the 'crew of the French liner are alleged to have taken pictures of the fortified sector-(Transocean). zone in the Straits.

as there will be a"heavy, demand

a suitable

The French Consul-General, M. French Consular official who ar-for seats during the run of the NEW DUTCH ENVOY de Pegre, and the Kobe agent of rived in Bhimonoseki last night-aim at these two theatres.

the Messageries Maritimes have arrived at Shimonoseki and are now negotiating with the Japanese

the ship.- for the release of

(Reuter.)

Transocean).

NO FURTHER NEWS

Shanghai, Feb: 15. Up to an early hour this morn- the Messageries Maritimes ozices in Shanghal had received

N

ing.

PARIS CONCERNED.

Paris, Feb. 15.

no further information regarding

News of the detention of the the plight of the s.s. Paul Doumer. French steamer, Paul Doumer, by although the skipper had assured | the Japanese authorities in Shimo-them he would wire the fullest in noseki has created a considerable détails. stir in Paris.

RUMANIAN GOVT. RUMOURS

TO ROME

Amsterdam, Feb. 15.

neverely injured.(Transocean),

COLONEL BECK'S TRIP TO ROME

Warsaw. Feb. 15.

It is officially announced here

M. Droubrecht, hitherto Dutch been Minister in Bucharest, has appointed Minister to Rome.

H credentials are being made that the visit to Rome of Colonel out to the "King of Italy and Em Jozef Beck, Polish Foreign Minis

Iter, has been fixed for the second

half of March. FAMOUS PAINTER LEAVES From a reliable Polish scarce it

Bucharest, Feb. 15. Rumours of a further reshuffle peror of Abyssinia.--(Transocean),

the Rumanian Government elicited an emphatic

have

now

It appears that the vessel was denial. It was omcially announced Comment in the press is being on the point of leaving Rokured here yesterday evening that there withheld for the time being, ap- when she was boarded by Japan parently until the Foreign Office ese port oficials, who prevented was absolutely no foundation for

such reports.--(Transocean), is in receipt of a report from the her departure,(Beuter).

HUGE FORTUNE

London Feb. -14, is learned that a return visit from Philip de Laszlo, well-known Count Ciano, Italian Foreign

painter who died last

left £141,099 (Baikh |Minister, will be made in April

(Transoceán).