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Show UTAH THR RTflH COUNTY REAPER. RANDOLPH. Lace in Its Every Lovely Mood Plays a Most Versatile Role PEEKING 'Realistic Attitude Marks PORTS Change in Allied Diplomacy By CHERIE NICHOLAS Released by Western Newspaper Union. ice shows SONJA HENIE, whose thrilled millions, still is breaking records. It is likely that mark for any she will set an to 340,000 playing by performance run at the customers in the New Journey Into International Cooperation Combines Idealism and Realism; Step Away From Old Style Power Alliances. ' P all-ti- 20-d- ay Chicago Stadium. And the petite skater has another By BAUKHAGE record one of which she is equalNews Analyst and Commentator. ly proud. To date she has sent four leading men to the armed forces. WNU Service, Union Trust Building, Analysis of a Stewart Raeburn, her first leading Washington, D. C. Job waltz performer, is a major in the Reporters What kind of a man is Stalin? As I sit down to my typewriter, Canadian army. Harrison ThompThat question was put to President I sometimes try to visualize the son is overseas with the signal corps, Gene Turner is in the air poosevelt at the White House press people who will read what I write Steffen is with the of on the day and radio conference just as I try to visualize the little corps and Gerry his return to Washington from Eu- groups gathered about the loud- ski troopers. The latter performer rope. He was tanned, alert, cheerspeaker when I talk to them. ful, still pulsing with the consciousSometimes I shudder lest they exHis answer, ness of achievement. the importance of the which came without a seconds hesi- aggerate we report. reporters things tation, I thought, was significant. not a bit different from the I am Stalin, he said, was a realist, just anxious anonymous reporter who, like himself. after the last war, still clad in his I am not particularly interested in khaki shirt, wearing the OD (its the accuracy of that answer, either GI now) tie and trench coat, who as an analysis of Stalin or came down to work and stumbled of the President. But to me around the various offices and meetthe fact that the President chose ings getting his stories and writing realism as the outstanding and com- them under the eagle eye of the mon characteristic of himself and copy desk. the man on whose word and deed The reason I am worried now is so much of the future depends, was, because I hear so many people talk I think, significant. about the things the Washington writes or says on On the whole, in the light of later correspondent as the radio term gospel. Well, most of pronouncements, use of that seems a good omen rather than a us try to report what we see and hear. We dont always know whethbad one. try to a er it is true or false. Weof justlabel Mr. Roosevelt is committed it. Most us to about tell you which world for the postwar plan leans toward the ideal, rather than what we know and what we think. toward the old style diplomatic Some do not. Sometimes when we talk with peorealism which is nothing but tactics behind a laundered ple we think really ought to know, facade of protocol. I think the we report what they say with a litSONJA HENIE American people have shown plainly tle more confidence. If we cant cabithe or Hat Brass the quote that they are more interested in net officer or the senator who told is the son of the old lightweight stopping or at least postponing Willie Ritchie. wars than they are in the slogans of us this or that we say authoritative champion, should be reported, too, that It know to We are supposed the isolationists or the imperialists. quoters. Dan her husband, is in Granted that, the fact that Roose- from experience whether what we active Topping, service. wishful or is sound fact just velt emphasizes the realist side hear The 1943-4- 4 Henie ice extravaganwhen he speaks, gives one a feeling thinking. za has 60 girls and 30 boys. A yean The longer we live, the better we that he and Stalin and Churchill there were 38 men in the show; ago the between to real able are judge have been able to reach some rough 34 of that original group are but agreements that are practical people and the phonies. Most now in the armed forces. Most in the dont government try enough to work, and yet are a little less earthy than the old power alli- to fool reporters because they know of the17 boys in the show are less than years, and in some instances ances, which always end in wars they can only do that once. Maybe it is necessary for the girls to dress twice. and always will. You know the old Scotch proverb: and serve in boys roles. The Conference If he cheats you once, shame on World Audience t I recall very well that crowded him; if he cheats you twice, shame Probably the most widely known news conference for which friend on you. Many people think that unless we woman athlete in history, Sonjas caand foe alike turned out to see what the President looked like after his attack the party in power, we must reer has been remarkably successbe in favor of it. That isnt true. ful. Through her ice shows millions trip. One hundred and seventy-nin- e We know, as the old bull said, One of people have seen her in person. and radio correspondworking press ents were there, not counting offi- cow is much as another. We know Millions more in many parts of the cials. The innocent expected some that despite the different party re- world have seen her in pictures. The records show she had her they are hot, inside stuff; the cynical hoped galia politicians display, once much alike share of disappointments before victhey pretty really errors the President would reveal office not as good as they tory came her way. At the tender into get re; them the average by concealing be for the most part, seldom age of 10, Sonja competed in her porter knew it was going to be a might good story one way or the other. as bad as the opposition paints them. first world championship, finishing last although she already was NorEveryone was satisfied. Those who The Active Element ways best. In 1924 she competed for the dramatic the got yearned acis in the the But in her first Olympic championship, power party story of the German plot which didnt come off. Those who were tive element, it makes news because finishing eighth. The minority merely In the 1926 worlds championship looking for trouble were gratified it does things. that he revealed no new concrete de- objects. We report what is done. at Stockholm she was runner-u- p to we approve or disap- Helmar Szabo, skater from velopments. The objective reporter Not because but because Vienna. The figure got his quota of news, for everything prove of what is done following year Sonja that is a concrete act. The opposi- replaced Szabo as champion a President says is that. after tion can do little more than oppose the latter had held the title four But the two remarks of the Presi- That is negative. We know that if dent stood out in my mind the one the opposition were in power, it consecutive years. She was 13 when she won her first worlds title and I mentioned (realism) and another, do the same thing, and the might 16 when she won her first of as soon made almost as the last in power, which would then only crown at Oslo in 1928. Olympic us had squeezed into the crowded party be the minority, would object. I declares oval office, and they were, believe, that the closest Sonja That is hard for the partisan layshe ever had was durmost revealing as far as our future man to understand. We know that. competition the 1936 Olympics at foreign policy goes. We have ideas, too, and the party in ing Germany, when she Those in the first row had time to power usually has some pretty gooc take in the Presidents cheerful and ones which the minority has to ob- faced 23 of the worlds ranking skatinformal appearance the colored ject to, merely on party grounds. ers from 12 countries. She finished sweater Not being of either party we, the the school figure competition with a shirt and the pull-ovwhich he had worn on his trip and reporters, may also become parti- narrow three - point margin over which, because of one meeting fol- sans not really of the party but of Cecilia Colledge, an exceptionally talented English star. A brilliant lowing another from the moment he some of the partys ideas. in the free skating enhe still White the arrived at House, It is hard to make some people performance abled Sonja to beat Miss Colledge wore. He had been on the job since believe that we are not partisan by the scant margin of 424.5 points 9:30 a. m. it was then after four. when we are objective, easy to make to 418.1. As soon as the signal that the others believe we are not when we last reporter was in the room was are. Royal Welcome I have covered Republican and given, the President began to speak A week later she competed in the of the success of the trip, and he Democratic regimes. I have covtenth worlds championship in said that those who shared with him ered one Democratic regime a long where 16,000 Paris, spectators in the hopes of a durable peace (he time. I certainly hope, for the good the indoor sports palace to referred to Russia, Britain, China) of the state, that I shall be able to jammed see the twinkling 'Norwegian star were motivated by the determina- cover a regime of the Republican skate to an easy victory over her 15 tion that there would not be another party, not because I think it is per rivals. war while this generation lives. se better or worse than the DemoKing Haakon VII of Norway wit' I must admit that the words at cratic regime but because I think nessed her 1928 victory and became a is for the republic. change good first struck me a little coldly one of her most ardent fans. It When the next administration was while ibis generation lives. Not through him that she was made e much optimism there, I comes in, I shall report what it does. Knight of the Order of St. Olaf one thought. But afterward and since I shall lean, in spite of myself, to- of the few women ever to be honhis later pronouncements, general ward the constructive issues it pro- ored in such manner. though they have been, I feel a lit- mulgates. But that wont, I hope, are an inevitable part of ice Spills tle better about it. It seems to me make me a Republican any more and has had her skating emwe at are Sonja last than my leanings toward the conthat perhaps barked upon an adventure in inter- structive side in this regime make share of them. Her most embarnational cooperation with enough me a Democrat. I am neither. I rassing tumbles were taken during idealism to keep our eyes on the am, and hope to remain, a reporter. a performance before King George heavens and enough realism to keep But, as beauty lies in the eye of the and Queen Mary of England. Badly our feet on the ground. That is my beholder, so truth often lies in the flustered, she fell three times. It is an episode she would just as soon New Years hope and wish. , ear of the listener.forget. , self-analys- tooth-and-cla- is w X . A. V. ' old-time- rs Garmisch-Partenkirche- man in uniform loves to see you dressed up for the evening in gowns. It is flattering pretty-prett- y a compliment to him as well as to you. To know you think he is worth it, helps a lot in inspiring high purpose and new courage in him to go forth to do and to dare where duty calls. Whats more, statistics show he likes best the charms and the graces of the utterly feminine in THE rose-and-lil- dress. Fashions for important gala nights are just like that this winter as beguiling and appealingly lovely as designers can create. Much of the enchantment of the current evening mode centers about the widespread and often unique use of lace, ranging from crisp starched types to the most fragile cobweb filmy meshes. This season lace drama especially thrills, as jt enters into the makeup of the new street-lengt- h gowns that have gone definitely formal. These charming flatterers are prettified with devastating necklines and cunning brief sleeves. The smartest ,of the smartest of these lacy street-lengt- h black frocks are in all black, either made entirely of exquisitely sheer lace or of fabric trimmed with lace rufflings and yokes, or they are apt to do 0 teamwork, lace with marquisette, net or some other sheer. in its Convincingly 50-5- style-corre- ct Nailhead Glitter ,'W.VW.SJ every detail is Mainbochers slim black dinner dress of print desprit, with bodice and ruffled peplum of black lace, as shown in the inset panel to the left. It sponsors the traditional floor length, which, by the way, loses none of its style prestige as it competes with the new shorter length versions. The pencil-slisheath-lik- e skirt contrasted with a peplum flare, is a silhouette regarded as strictly ultra in current costume design. The only color accent to this regal lace and net gown is its corsage. Speaking of the lace peplum, heres a clever idea when you have a dress that needs must do double duty. A bride with vision for the future in way of a wedding gown that she could wear later for various occasions chose a winsome pastel wool frock (for an afternoon ceremony) that was styled with utmost simplicity. Which tells but hall the story. The other half has to do with a detachable peplum made of handsome crisp white starched lace. This fastened about the waist under the pastel wool belt. A bit of the lace was repeated in connection with the dress collar. The same starched lace was used for a youthful n mushroom hat. After the with lace removed, she wedding, was the happy possessor of a plain tff ac high-crow- wool for wear. on For the woman of affairs who goes places, a lace dress is indispensable. Mocha lace for dinner at eight, as illustrated to the right, has intrigue plus. The effectiveness of lace for evening wear is being played up for all it is worth this season. Here the diagonal patterned lace is designfully arranged down the front. Flamingo red flowers add a glowing flash ol brown-tone- pe color to the Dress up for him in a lace (foi the bodice) and taffeta (for the skirt) portrait gown as pictured to the left, and you will make an unforgettable you picture. The prettiest colorwould could choose for this gown chabe rtreuse. Heart-shape-d neckline, with fitted bodice of chartreuse lace and a dirndl skirt of taffeta, a gorgeous rose poised at the neckline bespeaks transcendent loveliness. As to the gown centered in the tc low-plun- n, er sparkling-as-champag- ge ne group, it has an interesting story the tell in that you can change it in twinkling of an eye so it will dress oup or dress down to any dinner is effected via a lacy black net skirt that ties aboul the waist, worn over a simply styledis basic black crepe frock. The net embroidered in a stunning peplum effect with gold paillettes and metal ccasion. The change threadwork. Released by Western Newspaper Union. long-rang- This d frock for smart wear is made of sooty black rayon crepe thus offering a perfect background for gilt nailheads scattered in an intriguing allover patterning. Interesting shoulder-yok- e treatment outlined by nailheads and metallic beading adds flattery at the h high square neck. rayon crepe has been declared the fabric-idewhen it comes to the perfect background for the glitter decor. slim-line- dress-u- p Dull-finis- al - ; Pleated Skirts Permitted the It was to be expected that fabric conserving rules would ba ish pleated skirts from the curren fashion picture. However, the goo' news is that style creators are deskin monstrating in new types that a exce not can be pleated and yet Whi government requirements. are means that pleated skirts eluded in the new dress progw |