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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, August 24, 1988

PLAYTIME

from the

described by Betty Hand

ASK any of Hollywood's and navy and

topline stars about their

white pin-striped

private wardrobe and, ten Red Bandanna to one, you'll hear some- DEFORE Maureen O'Sullivan re- thing like this:

D turned to Amerten ofter making "A Yank at Oxford," she took me

"I have no private wardrobe to her dressmaker over here so that In Hollywood. After a day at I could see the new slick suits she'd the studios I go home and had made for the hot weather of change into slacks and a shirt, Hollywood. Hers were the smartest I've ever seen. Favourite among If I go out to dinner I wear the half a dozen sets was a suit of white same things, and if I go down crepe dotted with red numbers from to the beach-well, naturally, I 9 to 100. She was considering team- wear slacks.”

This, actually, is part of a conver-

sation I had with that topline stor Jonn Crawford some while bnek. Since then she hasn't changed a bit;

still she's

sportsminded! about clothes. For when I had a letter

from her this week she went into raptures over the new Black suits she'd bought for the summer.

at

Ing n red bandanna and a red scarf with them.

Prefers Frocks

JORMA SHEARER, like Maureen,

N always wears white or light coloured slacks. Myrna Loy, though, latest this year are made of deck- la different. She prefers frocks; ber

chair canvas with brief boleros, of the same material.

These, designed by herself, are made of wool

These few words show you that garbardine, have beautifully cut trousers zipped

it's going to be a sporting summer, either side, and bell-hop jackets with that trousers are definitely going to her initials, J. C. T.," embroidered take place in every star's word- on the left lapel. With them Joan robe. And, whether we like them or teams white crepe tailored blouses they're going to feature a good deal not, we'll have to accept them, for with short sleeves.

over here too,

If you live in the

country and

In the very hot weather, Joan will ring the changes with white play fancy your chances as a gordener, shorts and shirt of that very heavy invest in a pair of slacks and tartan off-white tussore. Shorts will be shirt, for these are the right clothes kept up with buttercup yellow for a job of work in the open air. braces, made of chair webbing, em- For Gardening

braidered with tiny coloured woollen flowers.

More Trousers

WHEN Marlene was over here and W

we had a meeting about clothes,

she could talk of nothing but the

NN

A RUTHERFORD, a coming

netren in flims, is a keen gar- dener in her spare time and always wears nut brown slacks and brown plaid shirt when ridding the garden of weeds.

If you can honestly claim a pair trousers she has mude famous. She of perfect legs, then step out in wears them constantly in Hollywood, shorts.or a playsuit. and has many a theory about them.

There are as many styles in shorts Hers are cut on similar lines to as there are in frocks this year. If man's, straight, fairly narrow, with you're slim, wear very short shorts turn-ups always. With them she you're inclined

with no pleats or gathers, while if to be short and wears a double-breasted jacket of another colour, and this also is the work of a man's tailor. Her favour- Ite combination is cream trousers

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Aun Rutherford, young Hollywood actress, likes the easy informality of trou- sers; those ahe is wearing above are in brown, worn with a gay plaid shirt fu green, white, and brown.

dumpy you'll look best in shorts that look like a skirt in disguise, Tall and Slim

THOSE that you see in this page

and

are intended for the 1 slim. Made of navy linen, they have

For squash Florenec George, new singing star of the screen, chooses navy linen shorts trim- med dowa the side scams with white braid, and fastening at the weniat with white lacing.

The kuitted okirt jumper she wears with, them

Наз fl. dashing necktie patterned with daisies.

white braid

sides and down the while facing of the front. Their owner is news for she was recently voted the most beautiful newcomer to the screen. Her name is Florence George and comes to the screen from the Chleago Civic Opera. She is a modern proof as are Grace Moore. Lily Pons and Deanna Durbin, that you can sing and be slim too.

Playsuits

PLA

‣LAYSUITS, like shorts, are in- tended for those with the mod- ern figure. There's a three-plece photographed below consisting of shorts, shirt and ankle length cost with ↑ crownless bench hat favourite Hollywood fashion this of the same material. Mary Brodel wears it.

Beach Wrap

GAIL PATRICK, the film

star

mother in "Mad About Music,"

a

la inuch the same type as Kay Fran- cls and has the same flair for clothes. She, like Kay, likes alick, sporting clothes rather than "pretty-pretties." Above right you see her in lounging housecoat of white wool crepe with scarf and belt striped in scarlet. Copy this coat in towelling and you have n charming beach wrap.

The playtime ensemble, worn by Mary Brodel, on the far left, would be quite cany to copy for the beach, in brightly patterned waffle cotton. It consists of short-sleeved rest robe, slide fastened to the waist, an abbre-| viated one-piece "romper," and wide-brimmed sun hat, made without a crown for coolness" sake. Hollywood extra is the pay-flowered calton romper photographed next.

COLD SUPPER DISHES

Chicken and Corn

small *

Mix together

tin of strained sweet corn, half a cupful of walnut kernels, and a breakfast Mas-moistening well with mayonnaise.

cup full of diced, cooked chicken,

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any of the usual salad ingredients.

drain overnight, then the next day It can be made most successfully it is ready for removing from the

bag for use. as required. Salmon Aspic

and economically with a special un- salted margarine and the aid of a cream-making machine.

Here'a new line in housecouts, earn by lovely Gail Patrick. It is in white wool crepe, floar length, with a wide ́sash wound twice round her waist. The long rash ends are striped in scarlet, and the scarf at the neck is atriped to match.

VANITY NOTES

MA

MANY women like to feel that their beauty prepara- tions have the same pedigree value as their furniture, their silver and their china. There

are indeed many alds to beauty in the salons of London, Paris and New York

to-day that are faithfully copied from old formulas and briginally made up at the request of famous beauties of other centuries.

FOR instance almond

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lather--cream, made up by London specialist as a luxurious substitute for svap from fresh almonds, was first made from the same recipe for that tragic and beautiful figure of the nineteenth century, the

Press El

Elizabeth of Austria,

of the mad King Ludwig Bavaria. It leaves the hands

of Bar

very white and transparent- looking. In the famous Winter- halter picture of the Empress® the beauty of her hands is very noticeable.

SKIN food made from fresh cowslips of the Eng- lish countryside was used as tradition has it by Queen Elizabeth for whitening her rather sallow skin and keeping the wrinkles at bay. A limited quantity of this is still made up every year in a London labora- torp from the fresh blooms.

About the middle of last cen- tury a special sandalwood scent was made up in Paris for a Russian Grand Duke who liked perfume but did not wish it to be said that he was cffeminate. This is now a popular scent with Englishwomen tu wear with furs.

AS

JUST before the war a group of smart American women discovered that Long Island strawberries could be crushed into cream and a lotion with a wonderful astringent effect, and they used this treatment a rejuvenator during hectic

seasons. To-day **Jat strawberry treatment is being lasts one hour, the favourite given in London'

salons, and

from 5 to 6 or from 4 to 5, before time for the treatment being

Half a pint of cream made in the usual way with the cream-making

social Make hell a pint of packet uspic machine, using pint of milk and jelly and leave unul it is cold and Place a small mound of the mix. lb of unsalted margarine, is left to just beginning to firm. Mix in half ture in the centre of several crisp stand in a warm part of the kitchen lettuce leaves, and stick into the top until it turns slightly sour-about of each two or three small, whole,

three days. cooked, baby carrots.

Try making cream cheese yourself -It's useful for combining with

three

salmon (or tinned salmon may be a pint of finely flaked cold, cooked

used if desired) and three table- spoonfuls of cooked rice. Set in good, mixed salad with which some small moulds, and turn out on to cheese to mayonnaise has been incorporated.

Then add 4 teaspoonful of salt and and hang up over a bowl to drain. stir well, put all into a muslin bag It is best to leave the

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