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Show L j THE LEIII SUN, LEni, UTAII Woman's World Plenty of Room for Action Is Essential in Clothes for Boys a TD RATHER havs little girls than little boys," one hears a mother lay, "because iff so hard to keep the boys in clothes." Well, I suppose boyi are Just a bit hardet on clothes than dainty little girls are. but if you do your own sewing and use sturdy materials materi-als and good seams and also allow plenty of room for the active play in which the boys engage, there won't be anything too difficult about keeping them in garments. You'll find that Dad's old clothing can be utilized to make sturdy, economical eco-nomical clothing for Junior. Pants can easily be cut down or ripped apart and sewed into little pants for the youngster. Shirts, too, are easy to make from larger ones and you'll find that the material stands un beautifully for all the baseball. roller skating or other sports In which the boy may participate. Don't plan to make long-sleeved shirts for boys' everyday wear. They are much too active, they get into too much dirt for you to be both ered scrubbing cuffs clean on every shirt you wash. Short sleeves are not only easier to care for, but they also allow more freedom of movement for boys at play. Study seam construction carefully before you start sewing and bear in mind that everyday clothes will have to stand up under innumerable washings. Big patch pockets are useful because they are nice for carrying all sorts of incongruous objects, ob-jects, even if you don't always like the Job of cleaning them out Bound buttonholes and bound slits are also very useful because they will stand wear better than any other type of construction. Make Flat Felled Seams For Utility Clothing To make seams properly for utility util-ity garments, be sure that you leave sufficient allowance of fabric for a nice-sized seam. If you find that the material ravels easily, for example, ex-ample, allow about to of an inch more for the seam. If you are not an experienced seamstress, the best rule to follow fol-low before putting seams together Is to baste everything before stitch- ! you have wornout men' clothes. ... ing on the machine. You may also use a pinned seam, allowing the foot of the machine to push the materi-i materi-i al. This method is good for heavy fabric. To make a pinned seam, place the pins close together and set in from the edge so they can be re moved as you stitch. The flat-felled seam is very popu lar in men's and boys' clothing because be-cause the seam is fiat, easy to press and looks well tailored. To make it, first stitch the raw edges of the outside of the garment as for a reg ular seam. Trim off one edge of the seam to within inch of the seam line. Turn under the raw edge of the other side inch and pull It flat over the short side. Hem by hand or machine so the seam lies flat Patch Pockets Are Made With Cardboard Pattern Patch pockets should be made just as correctly as possible to look well on tailored garments, such Makt thtm into torment for Junior. as shirts and pants. Cut the pattern pat-tern from a piece of cardboard, but do not leave an allowance for seams on the pattern itself. Place the cardboard card-board pattern over each of the pock- Summer Fashion Notes Rhinestones and sequins are still expected to hold down the main bulk of trimming, although if s probable we'l see some other new decorative notes like braid borderie anglasie. There will be brims and well-molded well-molded millinery for the after twenty twen-ty and older crowd, while off-the-face hats are favored for the teen-aged teen-aged group because they're so very flattering. Dainty Shantung KrF.. . S'.t ' r- -;rn3- ' ' ftVIrV. u1 i'r E&V V:K;- fe :F Yr ; X--Vvx f IT ,JJ i ' f:4 airlanes TO RAILWAYS . . . TWA malnliner, carrying 18 passengers and a crew of !. shown after &vvs s L f s 1 emergency crash landing on a railroad right of way shortly after taking off from Chicago airport for New I U i't! I York. None of the passengers was Injured, although pilot and stewardess were slightly hurt. The pilot stated I r rf K Yt ' 3 that both engines quit shortly after the takeoff, and that he did not have sufficient altitude to glide back ; A 1 to the field. I . A . I II "Jt I 8 I mmir mm' i i I i tititiT'T " I IT" !- i I ' I A frock of blue print shantung designed by Emmet Joyce gives a graceful waistline by a series of gores which taper toward the center of the buttons. The shoulder shoul-der treatment is called a "peacetime "peace-time epaulet." Gloves and hat match the dress. et pieces and press the seam al lowance over the edges of the cardboard. card-board. This will assure all the pock ets being the same size. In heavier fabrics, cover the raw edge with flat seam binding after you have turned the edge, then hem it Pin the pocket on the garment and check accuracy of placement. If you stitch the pocket close to the edge, the top is finished with one or more rows of machine stitch ing. If you stitch away from the edge a bit, the seam seamline is followed across the top of the pock et In finishing the shirt you'll want to make the shoulder seams, then the yoke, then the sleeves. Inci dentally, in stitching up the sides of the shirt, the sleeve seams can be stitched at the same time, making just the one seam. The collar may be stitched in place at any time after the shoulder shoul-der seams are finished, but most of the time the collar is attached when the facing (down the front) is turned. When you are making shorts for the boys, pin the pieces together as you cut them. Often, women get confused after cutting out the shorts because almost all the pieces look so similar it is difficult to assemble them. Always use the flat-felled seams for shorts. If you are altering a 'pair of Dad's trousers for the boy, you can Cut them down yourself, if you feel com petent enough to do so, or if you wish, buy a pattern and cut from that. Closet Arrangement Make the most of your closets by arranging them efficiently rather than hit or miss, which gives you little space. Hooks should be placed about seven Inches apart, and their placement behind the rod is not to be encouraged because they are difficult to reach. If your closet has room for shelves and drawers, these will give you additional space for storage of many small articles like underwear, belts, socks, etc. Store shoes on vertical or hori zontal racks or rods, or, If you have room for a tilted shelf above the clothes, this will also give a very neat appearance. Avoid wire hangers unless they are well padded, since they tend to make sleeves poke out in the wrong direction. If women have a closet to themselves, they will like the dainty padded hangers that come in lovely pastel shades. If you like an especially lovely closet accessory, choose these padded hangers in your favorite fa-vorite scent and they will keep your closets aeugntruiiy per fumed and also prevent that musty odor on your clothing. With fine, sheer woolens in the picture we can probably expect many draped effects for fall clothes, shirring and other such details that require a fine fabric. Notice the bright colors in coats being shown for summer wear. You'll like particularly the bright greens and reds, but if you like pas tels, there are enough to delight anyone. ' I imji.miii..JUi.iJiiiill' -! T.f I "T't M'MW " t-mkw " i)wii)iiii,wUWWMTO,,1,MlllllM,,l,l.,l,, I r ' i I ' . - ' " " y - v;T , , ; ELEPHANT WINS LIGHTFOOT CONTEST ... Off hand one would Imagine that the thin, elongated giraffe gi-raffe would be lighter on her feet than the lumbering 10,500-pound elephant. Such is not the case, however. A G. E. vibration meter made the rounds of the circus at Schenectady, N. Y., and came back with some interesting observations. Toby, the elephant, with the exception of the python, was the lightest stepper of all, registering 3 mils of vibration per second. The giraffe, left, is shown registering 6 mils of vibration per second. J , &Tii? , : i .,- Mi....: . -tttjMft?!,,. , .... -11. n TRIBUTE TO F. D. R. . . . John G. Winant, former U. S. ambav sador to Great Britain, delivers in an emotion-shaken voice the principal prin-cipal tribute during the congressional memorial services held in the House of Representatives. President Truman and members of the Roosevelt family attended. Photo shows Mr. Winant as be delivered the address. Seated In back, Sen. Richard Russell (Ga.), Rep. Alfred Bulwinkle (N. C.), Rev. James Montgomery, chaplain of the house, and Rev. Frederick B. Harris, chaplain of the senate. I a X ' r ' 'A 'Is rSX!t i - "j - Li ' ' f DREAM TRIP ON 50 CENTS A MONTH . . . How 50 cents a month from the depression-born budgets of six Canton, Ohio, families grew Into a kitty of $3,270 for a nationwide "dream trip" was disclosed with the arrival of the 12 members of the Kitty Kat club in Los Angeles. Eleven years ago the couples were bemoaning the fate which chained them to their homes. They began rigM then to save 50c a month for their "dream trip." Group is breakfasting in Los Angel -s. if " r i I, 1 . i' ; ; ' J I )V ' A ' ' " X i ' ' ' , " ' j ' 4 4 CRAMP . . . Robert Fitch, giant star of the University of Minnesota, Minne-sota, who topped the performers In the National AAU senior track and field championships, bettering better-ing the world's discus throw with a toss of 179 feet inch. DROPPED "A" BOMB . . . Major Woodrow P. Swancutt ef Wisconsin Wiscon-sin Rapids, Wis., pilot of the B-29 "Dave's Dream," that dropped the atom bomb on the ghost fleet in Bikini atoll. He is shown in the cockpit of the huge bomber. I V K i " I ' 'f . .. A 1 1 sj-! ai 1 1 rrt 'iWstairsT "' fnnoccnf Bystander: The Cinemagiclanst Fred Mae-Murray Mae-Murray lights the fuse for a sure-flre-crfcker christened "Smoky." The outdoor de luxer has Mother Nature as Freds leading lady. . . . "The Searching Wind" went from footlights to kleig lights and remains re-mains a provocative humdinger. It digs beneath the surface of current Issues and comes up with a dramatic dra-matic gusher. Sylvia Sidney heads the trouper-dupers. . . . "Diary of a Chambermaid" is an adult boy-girl opus, highlighted by keen character studies and crisp dialogue that has plenty of spin on its phrases. Paul- ! ttte Goddard keeps it twirling. . . . "The Hoodlum Saint" oners a iprlghtly meller gifted with Bill Powell's urbane pretending and Esther Es-ther Williams' natural hipnotic gift The Press Box: Thomas B. Sherman Sher-man in the St. Louis P-D spanks W. LIppmann and other tall-domed thinkers for using the annoying word combination "know-how." We don't like it either, know-how. . . . William S. Hart's passing received appropriate adieulogies, one editorial editori-al concluding: "There will never be another Bill Hart The background Is faded and the type is dated, but the memory is still green and tresh." Quotation Marksmanship: T. Fuller: Ful-ler: If you'd have hen lay, you must bear with her cackling. . . . Old Russian Adage: Wounds heal but harsh words stay in the heart and mind. . . . J. Baker: The guests were all having an uncorking good time. . . . J. Elinson: He's always corning a phrase. ... Ida James: I hope the atom test isn't the Bikin-Ing Bikin-Ing of the End. . . . J. Gart: The British seem to be more interested In getting the Grand Mufti to Palestine than The Hundred Grand who belong there. . . . J. Cannon: Louis is a credit to his race. The human race, of course. . . . E. Cuneo: I would gladly change the orchids I deserve for the scallions I don't . . . G. J. Nathan: Men go to the theater to forget; women, to remember. Jimmy Gardiner, the play-producer, told this at Leone's the other night. During the war he was visited visit-ed by a wealthy neighbor from Texas, Tex-as, an aging woman who had an overpowering yen for the perfect itring of pearls. Gardiner recommended recom-mended Cartier'i. . . , There she was served by a young clerk who mistook her unprepossessing appearance ap-pearance for poverty and showed her the lowest-priced strings. . . , She demanded better ones until the store's stock was exhausted and only the vault remained. She insisted in-sisted on going into it . . . The clerk pulled out their finest pearls and ihowed them to her. It was just what she was looking for. She asked how much. . . . "The price," said the clerk haughtily, "is $500,000." . . . "I'll take if said the woman, opening her purse and extracting a half-million dollars in cashl . . . The clerk keeled over with a heart attack. Norman Grans recently produced i jazz concert at Carnegie Hall. It sold out. . . . Norman was once engaged en-gaged to a Southern society gal named Virginia. He was so in love with Virginia that he christened the theme song of the concert: "Love You Virginia Blues." . . . But, alas, Virginia, who never hung around back stage before, changed fellers from Norman to a hot jazz man In the crew. . . . She returned his ring. . . . And now, sohelpus, as the curtain comes down on each concert an announcer introduces the newly titled theme song, to wit: "Drop Dead Virginia Blues." Torrid temperatures turning the town into a stone and steel Sahara. , . . Flimsy gowns clinging to trim torsos as though they loved them. . . . Weary salesmen scurrying into the foyers of Broadway's air-cooled movie places. . . . The silken rustle of luxury in swanky spots, where the ladies are chin-deep in ermine. . . . Sidewalk cafes in the Gramercy Park sector and in the 40s and 50s between 5th and the AoftheA. The most attractive is the one outside the St Moritz Hotel When the monster mon-ster motors of the buses stop growling growl-ing at 59th you can hear the tinkle of the Cafe de la Paix ice cubes. The geyser of chatter and giggles in ice-cream places the teenager's Stork Club. . . . The sweltering cabbie cab-bie who groans: "In this weather just breathing is hard work I" . . . Tenement youngsters using sea-bitten docks as their personal diving boards. 'Footlights and Spotlights: There was a bib and tucker event in the hayloft circuit last week. Tallulah Bankhead zoomed into the Greenwich Green-wich (Conn.) Playhouse with Noel Coward'a "Private Lives." The play's romantic rough-housing is admirably suited to the star's cyclonic cy-clonic personality, and she kept the comedy pin-wheeling across the stage. Several Broadway aisle-perchers aisle-perchers enjoyed her triumph critic crit-ic Vernon Rice ejaculating: "Tallulah, "Tallu-lah, the magnificent; Tallulah, the wonderful!" ft STAGEvSCREtfOADIO RaUaud by Wmtara Nawspapar Union. I By VIRGINIA VALE WHEN the NBC "Grand Ole Opry" program recently re-cently originated from a colorful col-orful old showboat as it sailed down the Cumberland river from Nashville, Term, it was the first time a network air-show air-show had emanated from a moving showboat, the first time a group of newspaper and magazine people bad ever been on one, (we were flown there for the event) and the first time Announcer Louie Buck RED FOLEY ever had mike fright "Red Foley, Whitey Ford, Minnie Pearl and all the others were having such a big time that I was afraid they'd be carried away and miss a cue," said he. "I was afraid to announce anybody's any-body's next number for fear he wouldn't make it to the miks in time." Lon McCallister. who hardly knows one musical note from an other, has been driving everybody! else on the "No Trespassing" set nuts. He's taking violin lessons in his dressing room between scenes, learning to play five old-time melodies melo-dies for his next picture, "Bob, Son of Battle"; the rest of the cast which is headed by Edward G. Robinson, wished that he'd taken up something quiet like training fleas. "Bulldog Drummond" Is returning return-ing to the screen, bis first appearance appear-ance since 1939, when Paramount did "Bulldog Drummond's Secret Police," with John Howard as the star. That was the seventh of a series; John Barrymore and Ray Milland bad appeared as "Drummond" "Drum-mond" for Paramount and way back in 1929 Ronald Colman had originated the character for Samuel Sam-uel Goldwyn. In England, John Lodge did him In 1937. Now we're to have "Bulldog Drummond at Bay," produced by Venture Pictures, Pic-tures, a Columbia producing unit; two of the series will be made this year, Time was when the lovely ladles of the films weren't supposed to! have a brain beneath their curls.! No matter how smart they were, press agents pictured them as beautiful beau-tiful but sort of dumb. But now the girls don't care who knows that they not only act in pictures, but have a financial interest in them. Hedy Lamarr became a producer with "The Strange Woman"; Bette Davis is credited with "The Stolen Life," Ingrid Bergman is credited as producing "Arch of Triumph," and Joan Bennett is producing chief of Diana Productions. Lanny Ross has been identified with "Moonlight and Roses" since 1928, but after he was demobilized from General MacArthur's special staff and returned to broadcasting, he wanted to drop the song. In came several thousand protests, so it's still his theme song. You'll see Joe Tule, Mickey Rooney's father, as "Jlggs" In "Bringing Up Father," for Monogram, Mono-gram, He and George McManus, who draws the famous comic strip, were both considered for the role, but McManus withdrew "for personal per-sonal reasons." As Broadway star Jack Arthur was originally engaged for a singing-acting part In "Grand Central Station"; then he was kept as narrator nar-rator of the show. He is the only stage performer of the hundreds who've worked on the program to win permanent berth. One of the biggest of all radio acting plums right now is the "Nik-ki"Tole "Nik-ki"Tole on the CBS EUery Queen show. Gertrude Warner is leaving to get married, and "Nikki" will be written out of the script until the middle of July, when someone else takes over. ODDS AXD EXDSDennit CKeee and Marguerite Chapman havt been set for ttarring role in "Mr. District Attorney," the Columbia film based on the popular radio show. ... Judy Canova return to the air August SI. . . . Bette Davit has asked her fan not to tend her gifts for her birthday, but to donate the money to making up food package for Europe' starving children. ... Peggy Ann Gamer get her first grown-up role in "Bob, Son of Battle.". . . Samuel Golduyn is fathering fath-ering e new troupe of Golduyn Girls, to follow their appearance in "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" with e tour of South America. V f Li |