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PH, FRIDA

LAVIBER: 29, 1960;"

Madam, the bargains

shout out

at you.

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NEW YORK. ṬEW YORK gets my vote as the world capital of the women's fashion trade.

You thought it was Paris, with London making a bid for second place, and Ameri- ca coming into the picture only because of its proved ability in the mass-produc- [tion field, did you?

EVE PERRICK IN NEW YORK

*This fakelous city of dren'

But the presence of uniform- éd guards at strongpoints does not make for a cosy atxaosphere,

Outside the store, one of those rice is Sign which usually rarry news ashes spells, out aide. details of the grand bargains in-.

Once in, you're still not lot alone. Over the loud-speakers announcements In

Valoti Square is New York's come speaker's corner.. Amkt 12s dust, lired-charmer accents of com. tired-looking soap-box poliu- merent radio: cians Bold forth. Round the "Ladies, have you ever heard edges, in the littered, tawdry of reat suede leather handbags three dollars ninety-five streets, are the cut-price shopp, at

cents? Of courte, you haven't.

Biggest and most famed of there in Klein's; "Klein's on the

"Due to an exceptional pur- chate of t famous malcer's

Square" monument to the (favourite expression at Klein's)

to

job buyer and a brusque sales flock of bags, created by one of technique,

America's top bag designers, a

you will be proud Purs It is a enormous building, curry is now on sale at that reven storeys high, four blocks astuunding price on the main teng-and then there is

an on floor."

So did I. Now I see that New York brings the great- est influence to bear on rexe. what people wear because it alone has succeeded in runking women 'so fashion conscious that the dress shops have no closed sea-

son.

Everywhere else, the style softers are one jump ahead of the mob. Here

the woman in the street is right on the heels of the lady fashion,

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Cathay

Hey, look!

Put It employs fow sales nesistants.

a self - service 03-

tablishment. Frenzied

women in their thou-

On the nose'

LMOST impossible, it is, to sands ruth the rails Ko Into the stere and com and misle counters, out without buying anything. pick what they want

or what they think The people rushing around in they want-arid then semi-dementia; the cry of the queue at the cashiers' cashier's resistant ringing Out desks to pay arid have with "on the nose" each time a

Klein's rely

the article wrapped. customer tender the έχεις amount for her purchase? the hot lazed look of the woman who has discovered from among a million

ents, one exactly the same as her sister which it bought yesterday for five dollars more, make you believe Day by day it is moved from that this really is the place fur

quick and vast turn over. Every line merchandise there has of a te limit within

must sell,

rack to rack teach to en-

preal values.

or more

ing a price reduction) until the It probably is, but it's cer- fatal clearance rail is reached, fainly shopping the hard way. About a third of the things on sale there are at the end of their

WHISPER from far-away Framer list Dior has tired of tangerine and is dickering tether.

about with royal blue; # pub- licity paragraph from Hollywood that certala film star has been Isern at ʼn parly wearing a fring-

Not all the artifes are Jow- eces:ful enough to nitrect the priced. The system has been

luxury-lovers. At Klein's you ran buy a mink coat (for £600) Klein's probably believe that or a diamond ring, as well as the customer is always night, ten-shilling dress. but they'll be hanged if they are

going to tell them 50, The few And yet there is something

et shawl; a photograph from lesgirls are ensual to the point missing the contact with the England showing the Royal

of rudences, and are eusily talesgirl. You hear women exasperated, Family in tartans and right

anxiously asking perfect stran gers-their nearest neighbours away the propaganda machine "That one looks all ragat on in the serum: "Do you think gets going. The campaign is on, you, lady; I can't see why you the blouse will wash?** or want to try on any more," a "Would you say this hat suits The women throng the stores, the art of advice they give to me?" driven there by an Irresistible a perplexed hal-hunter. urge, that they have acquired through years of subjection to the greatest advertising methods in the world, to be in the fashion.

It

{ woman cannot afford

complete outfit of the moment, she will buy at least one news worthy article. So, if a heavy, plain skirt worn with her sunt- mery blouse does not Jonk enart, at-east che shows that she tried.

Square,

The guards

Her strategy

the

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“Darling, the gentleman's an M.P. and in a hurry to get to London-tell him where you've buried his trousers and shoes.”

London Express Servic

Public School fees continue to go up. Several schools have just announced further increases-among them St. Paul's and Haileybury: And there are more to come.

CAN THE PUBLIC SCHOOL SURVIVE?

M

OST

the

By HUGH LYON, former headmaster of Rugby

er, a veteran of many foras's at Klein's. She explained her it easy to make ends meet. shopping strategy:-

"It needs four people besides yourself. One to scout out the

The normal increase over best buys, and to follow the pre-war figures is between RUMOUR that the mirrors scout round the rails and collect 30 and 40 percent which---

the management.

the

My

to

They have

Most difficult

to face mouning which, grants can be given to branch of their sons of old boys and others to

meet their efforts half-way.

It is true, also, that families are smaller nowadays, and often perhaps deliberately limited.

on

fact remains

Then there is the torture of

LONDON. the rack. As one dress rall is stripped by the human locusts,

of the larger costs in every others are quickly wheeled in

public schools have expendituro. without so

cafeteria, where

And most im- inch as

IN a "minu

put up their fees at your backs, please." Accident

same exhausting e of least twice in the past five portant of all, they have to pay frequency works out at about snatch-and-geab prevails, 1

a comparatively large staff cue bumped back to every 500 met an old, hardened campaign them even now are finding quality.

for six years, and few of scale which must attract customers,

So fees had to go up and PUT perhaps what will most of plmost certainly they will go Dall help to defer the evil higher stu

moment is the fact that these kchools are beginning to attract In the American way of sell-

In much larger numbers that ing to women there $ 730

comparatively small section of time-ing in the new ideas in

the community which is today clothes, cemetics and

are modelled on the devies the things she recommends, an- though it is a staggering THE surprising what used in the war by the secret cher to help you try on the blow

relatively prosperous: thut in spite of it all the long as money talks with so loud

and n bave-you getting into the low- terelce, and that stre delec. luthes, and the last to do

parents already priced stores. At one and the lives stationed at the back of ing-up at the cashier's wondering how to meet all schools are still crammed and a voice it is perhaps not a bad thel: lists long for many years thing that the voice should be Game time you can buy a dress then can see through. to the friends and I always do it at the other expenses of main- to come. In Fifth Avenue for about $125 customers trying

an educated one. dresses way--ami jonk, we've lived to taining a family in these The long lists may be cx- and its copy for E5 in Ubon themselves, has been denied by tell the tale.”

(and all but the most daya-is not in the circum- plated

But then are postponements. complacent Readmasters ore pre- not ---Londen Express Stretee) stances unreasonable,

#solution, pared to give this explanation) solution uitimately to be?

What is that by the incurable optimism or the English temperament,

One school of thought, less Names have to be put down considerable or at any rate less fantastically carly, the registra veeal than of old advocates a tien fee 13 negligible,

and pelley of grim laisser

faire, nothing ls lost if in the long run leaving the schools outside the the necessary funds are not State system to their Dwn forthcoming: incanwhile it is devices, to perish if need be of always just possible that ships economic starvation, taking with will come home or great-uncles them into oblivion their class Huxley, which London saw a Dinge.L Shakespeare event show unexpected benevolence. tiple of YANG AKO. This la of the .nson listed so far is a

exclusiveness, their feudal 'tradl already in rehearsal with Basil revival of "King Lear," with the parents of all those already But the problem remains how

tions and their unbearable Rathbon Valerie Taylor and Louis Cathern, and Marcia Swinburne,

new at school are meeting their musical background by, Marellablities. Blitzstein.

Partly as every head of a school Opening about the same Unic NEW YORK.

Hading the list of the new will testify, by serious and often at foston and New Haven, Con-musicals is "Call Me Madam," herole sacrifices. In performing this seem CURTAIN going up-on ingly

neclleut, for their, pre-Broad- impossible feat another sparkling Broadway will embark

way runs are "The Lady's Not Which (it is no secret) is based on the life of a certain American on For Burning, by Christopher Broadway season, marked an intricate programme of Fry

which (with John Gletgud and Woman diplomat, and by the biggest invasion so tour bookings, closings and Famola Brown), and John bears the magic names of Ethel [PUT sacrifice is possible only cate the

Va Druten's "Bell, Book and Mirman and Irving Berlin,

London makes biggest rush

on Broadway

CU

By Frederick Cook

far from London's West complicated switchings.

End. The playbill is spatter-

ed with the namies of

conceit.

But most of those who quarrel with the public schools today are distressed only because they are exclusive, and limit what they have to offer to no small a aceiton of the population.

These would probably advo- adoption of these up to a point: and the fact schools, when their need be. which Candle,"

brings

Rex

is that far more school fees are came acute, by the State, with Harrison and his wife Lill Smash hit for those who like today being paid out of acrumu- the obvious corollary that the Falmer back to Broadway to thir comedy broad will belated capital than ever before. State would then be responsible #elber.

"Guys and Do}" (American for

not only for continuing their Unfortunately it is easier to existence, but for deciding en Roys and Girls) based on same of the funnier storica of the opend capital than to replace their sphere of

work and the and if it is only the capital of pupils they should accept. late Damon Bunyon.

their clients which stands be.

111

the

West

a real-life

character

really

The English Invasion British plays. British already begun. Lasley Storm'A players, British writers. Back Chiffon"-writ Flora

I bson, Anthony Ireland, Ray- A later entry for mon Huntley,

Patricia Hicks, End Maks is Christopher Fry's For a month no new play Richard Gal: and Patrieia Mar "Ring Round the Moon," from

and disaster has beer produced on tont-s

playing at Boston in the Globe, with Lucile Watson George S. Kaufman, a friendtween the schools a pre-Broadway try-out. It is ond Neva Patterson.

for many years, is then sooner or later their doo Broadway. But five are list- due in New York at the end of Hir is to return to Broadway doing the direction and nobody is seated.

Wendy tunyon the month.

"Ann Veronica," Bona'dows better how

As we have seen, the truth is THIS is a possible way out

but unless the independent Gow's adaptation of the 11. G. Broadway

conealed by their apparent

rehool is tu Jose the Yery Beating 1 by a fw days into Wells story.

prosperity and undoubted popu-

for which it qualities

Is Fo And the crisis may for wise'y valued, it is Running this one close, ac- larity.

essential Mordaunt Shalep's drag, curding to the

well-informed, one reason of another be delayed. that it should not be so absorb- with Edith Evans, Ciell Pucker "The Green Bay Tree" (which will be the new Olson

the rest. Parker ilremly in 1933 brought to New York a

and Johnson revue. "Pardon Our All this is to be packed has a toyat American following, young man named

Laurence French," now in rehearsal.engths to which sacrifice can go: cess, that it loses all its indi is Oilvier),

to be into

and most schools, after twvo viduality and character. produced 31 theatres, 14 of

The cast includes Denise Daree!. Early next month comes "The waln this. time with Jay

destructive wars, have secumu-

(World Copyright Reserved-Londex. which are occupied already. Gioconda Smile," by Aldous Roblazon and Frank Allenby,

-(London Express Service} lated large memorial funds from

Expres Sarvica).

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ed between now and the end of September.. Forty-one, if the producers' present plans work out, will have been in troduced before Christmas.

NANCY

Laugen's James Brilie's play, Broadway will be Daphne

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