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McCORMICK MESSENGER. McCORMICK, S. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 24, 1937 ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★ 5 STAR * ★ ★ ★ ★ it it it it DUST Aiovie • Ra Jio ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ it it it it ★★★By VIRGINIA VALE★★★ F IVE small boys have just about disrupted Hollywood. They are the youngsters who played on the stage in New York in “Dead End” and who now are in Hollywood playing the same roles in the picture. They don’t like Hollywood, they think acting in movies is pretty silly, and their complete lack of rever ence for glamorous stars frequently makes the girls furious or tearful. One of them will go up to a famous star, and out of kindness let us call her “Miss X,“ and say politely, “Is it true that you get paid two thou sand dollars a week?” At her nod of assent, the little tough will look her over critically from head to foot, and say “But why?” Barbara Stanwyck “This Is My Affair,” a Twentieth Century-Fox picture, has Barbara Stanwyck and Rob ert Taylor as its stars, which is enough to cause a stampede at the box office any time, but in addition this has some gripping historical scenes. It must be thrilling enough to the old folks who can re member Teddy Roosevelt and Ad miral Dewey to see them represented on the screen, but for those to whom these two great historical figures are just a legend, It is downright throat-choking. Bar bara, as usual, gives a beautifully sincere and moving pei*formance. As for Taylor, he is his usual charm ing self. *— If yon like Navy pictures with lots of gold braid, humming engines, wonderful marine views, and ter rific drama, there is “Wings Over Honolulu” for yon. It is a Univer sal picture with Wendy Barrie, Ray Milland, and Bill Gargan and it is so exciting that I just had to stay and see it a second time and any day now I may go back again. Incidentally, Bill Gargan is now making a picture on the Universal lot qalled “Reporter Missing” and he has been taking the thrills of the picture so seriously, that when a burglar-alarm salesman walked in to his house he found Bill a willing customer. Bill had an electric eye also installed so that anyone enter ing the house in the dark late at night would pass it and set gongs and bells to ringing an alarm. Any week now Don Wilson may have* to break down and sing a few songs on the Jack Benny radio pro gram. When Jack had to bow out of his usual Sunday night radio appearance because of flu, Wil son subbed for him and threatened to sing. Phil Harris, Kenny Baker and the rest implored him not to— and a few days later protests by the bushel poured in from Detroit lis teners. They didn’t realize it was all kidding and they resented it. They remember, you see, that Don Wilson used to sing with a vocal trio at a Detroit station and they know that he has a glorious voice. When Fred Astaire goes off the air for the summer, Trudy Wood, his singing partner, will stay on with the new program, which in cludes barytone Jimmy Blair and a sixteen-voice rhythm choir. Trudy is only twenty-one years old, so you can’t blame her for being so happy she went home to sing and shout for hours the day the con tract was signed. Gracie Allen has a perfectly won derful idea for raising a lot of mon ey for charity. She wants to send her husband, George Burns, and his bridge-playing cro nies, Tony Mar tin, Bert Wheeler, and Benny Rubin on a tour of the coun try to stage bridge games in public. She maintains that they play the worst, the loudest, and the funniest bridge and that everyone ought to have a chance to see and hear them. —*— ODDS AND ENDS . . . Folks who scribble on the tablecloths in the Para mount studio restaurant are now fined thirty-five cents. Jack Benny's debt ran so high that Mary Livingstone gave him a few old tablecloths from home to use on his table at the studio . . . When Dick Foran was given a new contract and told that he was going to graduate from West erns into big, spectacular, expensive pro ductions, he asked wistfully if he couldn't make a Western now and then. "Don’t you want to be a big, important star of the best pictures?" he was asked. "No," he said, “/ want to ride my horse" . . . Big Boy Williams shudders when he thinks of the jeering fan mail he is going to get soon. He had to eat 18 cream puffs for m scene in "Let's Talk of Love." A Western Newonan*? Ur ion Grade Allen Silk Prints, Jackets and Big Brims By CHERIE NICHOLAS S "" IHL IT ERE’S giving you a very proper * * formula for smart spectator sports costumes to wear these sum mer days. The combination runs thusly—stunning silk print for the dress which must have a jacket, cape or coat of the same or of some other plain silk related to the en semble, with matching print silk de tails, to which add headgear that makes a wide brim appear at its widest. The fuss and furore being made over gay prints and wide brims is on the increase as summer advances. The vogue started early in the season, at which time fashions at the Belmont racetrack set the pace for a colorful and luxurious sum mer costume program, that high lights silk prints in unmistakable terms. Then, too, the emphasis placed on big brims is becoming more and more apparent as fashions take a definite stand. At outdoor events fashionables are adopting this formula of silk print costume plus a huge brim with greatest enthusiasm. Noteworthy among high-style gestures is the topping of one’s print dress with a coat or a cape or a jacket of silk bengaline. The revival of bengaline is big news in the fabric realm, and it’s good news for bengaline is so dependably wearable and has an air of gentility about it thart ever ap peals to discriminating taste. In assembling your costume to be worn in the grandstand or to view what’s going on from the club ve randah the big thought to keep in mind is the importance that fash ion attaches to matching or related jackets or coats or capes if your taste runs in that direction. If you like to do things notably “modern” you will see to it that your dress be monotone with your coat or cape or jacket done in spectacular print. The swank outfit to the left in the picture tells the story more dra matically than words. In this in stance it is the coat that is of gay jockey plaid linen-like silk that tops a simple monotone sports frock. This type is a “last word” fashion in coats that are worn over either black or beige crepe dresses. The huge stitched silk cartwheel that completes this costume gives per fect style accent. Speaking of hats that are styled of silk, the most re cent millinery collections feature them, particularly wide-brimmed types that are tailored of black or navy taffeta. A hat of this kind is considered good style worn with ei ther the daytime tailleur or with the summery dainty lingerie frock. The costume centered in the group makes twin print its fabric theme. It also stresses the voguish redingote silhouette. Royal rose printed silk crepe is used for the dress with printed silk chiffon for the sheer redingote that is worn over it. The redingote as here shown has a border of the silk crepe, thus bringing the costume into a perfect unit. The idea of a jacket of contrasting material that is lined with the print that fashions the dress is nicely car ried out in the costume illustrated to the right. The dress is of aca jou silk crepon printed in powder blue. The jacket worn w^th it is of flannel identical to the blue in the print. It is lined with matching print. Note the large Spanish sailor brim and velvet bow on the hat. If you favor the very smart red- and-white color scheme we would suggest a redingote of wine and white printed silk chiffon banded with a matching silk print of the same fabric as the dress. Wear with this charming redingote en semble a white toyo sports hat trimmed with a wide wine colored band. Shoes and bag of wine col ored gabardine together with gloves in matching wine tone will add in finite distinction. © Western Newspaper Union. BOLERO EFFECT By CHERIE NICHOLAS ROMANTIC MOOD IS KEYNOTE OF SEASON Rivalling the princess style in popularity in children’s fashions is the dress with a bolero or at least with a bolero effect. The idea of a bolero is really a peasant trend, such as is wielding a widespread influence throughout juvenile styles this season. The cunning white pique frock pictured has a simulated bo lero typical of the Dalmatian dress. Wee brass buttons go down the front and there is a dash of gay embroidery at each side of the front done in red, blue and yellow. The typical peasantiike pillbox hat sports a streamer tassel of pom pons repeating the color of the embroidery on the dress. By CHERIE NICHOLAS For the very formal evening gown the romantic mood is the keynote of the season. Crisp silk mousselines, silk nets and silk marquisettes or stiff silk taffetas make gowns with yards and yards of skirt fullness swirling and billowing about the ankles. Some are stiffened with cording like “Southern Belle” hoop skirts, others use several layers of the silks in contrasting or match ing colors to give the bouffant ef fect. Exotic striped sheers over plain silk foundations sometimes have huge ruffles of self fabric around the hem to accent the width of the skirt. There’s romance in daytime clothes, too. Frills and furbelows in the way of ribbon-bow trimmings and neckwear, also blouses of the sheer face-trimmed fluffy-ruffle type add the feminine touch. As to ro mance in hats there’s plenty of it in the way of large leghorn capelines, many having long ribbon streamers for dressy wear, while for wear with tailored suits there are im mense black or navy leghorns that are banded with ribbon tying in a sprightly little bow. New Evening Frocks Are Beau Catchers for Fair The new evening frocks are regu lar beau catchers, and the dance floor looks just like a garden filled with beautiful, ethereal blossoms. Full-skirted frocks of chiffon or lace v/ith patching, long capes, com plete with dainty hoods, are selling fast. But they should be worn only by the very young woman. Then there is the marquisette dress and bolero, with short, high, puffed sleeves. This comes in delicate blue or rose and has the bottom of its full skirt strewn with tiny velvet forget-me-not clusters. A S RIGHT as rain, and as cool ing, are these clever young modes for the woman who sews. Each is simple to make, pleasant to wear, and may possibly be the difference between a modern and a mediocre wardrobe for you this summer. Sew-Your-O w n wants to help you look your best, to stamp you modern-to-the-min- ute, and therefore is anxious and proud to present today’s trio. A Two Piecer for Chic. If he tells you you’re just a nice armful you are the right size and type to wear the blouse ’n’ skirt shown above, left. The waistcoat idea is very much the thing in blouses. The skirt is terribly young and figure flattering. What more could any little heart desire? You can have this smart ensemble for a song and a mini mum of stitches. Think of the countless summer occasions ahead that all but specify this very outfit. Not Smart Matron. You should sue for slander any one who calls you a Smart Matron when you don this gratifying new fashion (above center). You step into an entirely new size range when you step forth in this frock. So simple is its technique— merely a deftly designed feminine jabot, softly draped contours, and a meticulously slender skirt—yet so effective. It will thrill you in marquisette chiffon or lace, and it will keep you deliciously cool. Snappy for Sports. Play the net or the grandstand in the sports dress at the right and feel perfectly confident in any event. There isn’t one among us who hasn’t a real yen for a streamlined all-of-a-piece sports ter that’s on and off in a jiffy, launders easily, and comes up smiling time after time. You can concoct something clever of seer sucker or pique and complete the whole thing in an afternoon. Why not order your size today and have all-summer benefit of a real ly companionable sports dress? Pattern 1302 is for sizes 14 to 42. Size 16 requires 2Vi yards of 39 inch material for the blouse, 2^4 yards for the skirt. Pattern 1286 is for sizes 36 to Silence and Speaking By keeping silence when we ought to speak, men may be lost. By speaking when we ought to keep silence, we waste our words. The wise man is careful to do neither.—Confucius. 48. Size 38 requires 4% yards of 39 inch material. Pattern 1915 is for sizes 14 to 42. Size 16 requires 3% yards of 35 inch material plus S 1 /^ yards of bias binding to finish edges as pictured. Send your order to The Sewing Circle Pattern Dept., Room 1020. 211 W. Wacker Dr., Chicago, 111. Price of patterns, 15 cents (in coins) each. © Bell Syndicate.—WNU Service. 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