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Show . , Sugar House, Utah Thursday, Feb. 7, 1957 SOUTH EAST INDEPENDENT age New Books At Sprague Library Announced FICTION The Facts of Love Baron The Ides of August Haygood Summer Hills Stevenson NON'-FICTIO- N Last of the Great Outlaws ....Croy Guides to Straight Thinking .... ... Chase Legends of the Bible. Ginzberg Your American Government Bailey The Drunken Forest Durreli Flower Show Themes Diddle The American Story Riegel fhis Hallowed Ground Catton MYSTERIES Death at the Easel Miller - WESTERN'S The Peace Maker Poole Vida Wright and her two children, Vivien and Nicholas Anthony, whom Wrights adopted recently. Woman of the Week (Continued from Page 4) To augment the ballet, and looking to future horizons, extensive train-ing in drama and piano was also begun. For two years she was a pro-fessional dancer in New York, ap-peared in Ziegfield productions and night club performances. Her drama and dancing career were not destined to take the prominent place in her life as it has that of her aunt, the well-know- n Lila Eccles Brimhall, for she returned to Utah, met and married Grant J. Wright, Three years later the Wrights were head-ed east to live in Boston, where 'her husband "was to continue his business education at Harvard School of Business Administra-tion, Here Vida decided to con-tinue her schooling in costume de-signing, a course she had previous-ly taken at the University of Utah. After her first year she was awarded a scholarship to complete the two additional years. One of her designs brought her first prize in a contest sponsored by the American Silk Company which gave her the thrill of achievement. She graduated from the New York School of Design. Once again Utah . lured the Wrights homeward and here, Vida, opened her own business "Custom Made Clothes for Ladies," which she ran for eight years. The Wrights have made their home in Holladay for 17 years and have had a family of eight chil-dren. And just recently they adopted two orphan children from Greece. This was a natural turn of events for Vida as she had long worked in the foster care for chil-dren, and participated with that plan under the County Welfare and the LDS Relief Society for several years. And during these years she has cared for fifteen children ' in her home. With Vida there are perhaps not one of her many talents or gifts placed first in her life but she has made a place for each of them to broaden her role of mother and housewife as she also has done with her church work. She has taken an active place in her church as a counselor in the Primary or-ganization where she also was a teacher, as dance director in the MIA and as a work director in the Relief Society. We are pleased to have Vida share her talents with our readers in her weekly column, "Vida-wrigh- t" and to this charming lady who has done so much we say, "A King's Ransom!" Fashions . . . O4 idawrigrit With the advent of the drastic new shoe styles for ladies, which is, by the way, an old style made new, we learn that designers are casting more backward glances, this time to the 30's period, for inspiration in something 'new to come up with In clothes. This last month, many New-Yor- k designers were in an aud-ience witnessing a showing of clothes of the 1930's by both American and Parisian designers, and it is a note of interest that those may Influence the revival of some of these styles into our pre-IsiM- it period. However, there is controversy as to the bias cut dresses, thank goodness! Remem-ber them? The opinions of most of the audience was that - the bias cut skirt is not practical. I agree, for never was there a more monstrous fashion than the bias cut skirt that graced so many dresses of that period. With the bias of any material a most clinging and re-vealing thing, as it outlines the figure, it was an atrocious line for the heavy-hippe- d woman. Few women could wear this fashion well. How many sagging hem-lines were in evidence then, too. Nothing can ruin the picture, of a ady, otherwise fashionably dress ed, than an erring hem-lin- e, which has stretched and dropped due to the 'give' of the fabric bias. Do check your hem-lin- es periodically, by the way, for an even trim look. Of this bias fashion, some de-signers observed it is too soon to revive this period of fashion, which we can still clearly remem-ber. Others stated present foun-dation garments will have to be for the models' gar-ters were revealed through the dresses modeled. This wag ob-vious before, wasn't it? All agreed though, that the bias cut tops were flattering and im-pressive, and one person was most impressed to favor the 'cowl' neckline. This is as old as the Ancient Greek mantle and the ltoman Toka, and was also reived during the Middle Ages before it came to light again in the 1930s. Another outstanding feature in some clothes of that period was fur sleeves. Perhaps many of you will, no doubt, re-member a coat or Jacket you had with fur sleeves. Do not be surprised, if by next fall or winter, your new dresses feature bias cut tops, which truly can make a beautifully draped bodice. You will know that de-signers have merely scratched around in the proverbial barrel of fashions to find something new. We do progress though, and thank goodness, these 'new' copied styles should be an im-provement on the 1930's. Fathers and Sons Banquet Tribute To Scout Week The Canyon Rim Ward is hold-ing their Stake Father and Sons Banquet, Friday, February 8. The theme for the evening is Onward for God and my Country, in honor of Scout Week. 1 '. V A-'- t Say "goodbye" wO'm t0 2 tons of &r washday work . . . ELECTRICALLY If you are an average homemaker, actual tests show that you lift and tote approximately 5,000 pounds of wash every year. You . must itoop, bend and lift 220 times in hanging out just one average washday load. Join hundreds of other women in this area and say "farewell" to all this . . . with an electric clothes dryer. An electric dryer really takes the work and weather worry, too out of your washday! BUY FROM YOUR DEALER LIVE BETTER;.. Electrically ZZfJt UTAH POWER Ct LIGHT CO. DANSEUSE ANNOUNCES ... (Complete QJecIJing CjJervice All lew Mens . . . TUXEDOES o All "Hame Brands ... WEDDING GOWNS Stocked to Sell or Rent o 0 We are now equipped to do Monograming DANSEUSE IH5E.2lstSo. HU 4-6- 38 1 |