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Show by LEE HOGAN . I "K fc f 3 -1 " A AN UTTE7.LY FEMININE hat to shidow t'.;e sun or to fil'.or the moonbeams is rr::i ty NBC star FRANCES L.'.rjGFORD. Of natural lace Tuscan, the wide brimmed hat is worn slightly back on the head. A double brim effect is separated By summer flowers in the season's full-blown colorings or reds and biues and yellows. ' ' HOT CALIFORNIA DAYS bring forth as pretty brimmed hats as ever were seen about town. For instance in-stance there's LYNN BAR1, Pat O'Brien's co-star in one of NBC's summer theatre series, who wore to broadcast a ballibuntl bonnet with rounded crown and brim tied al! the way around with crisp plaid gingham . . . Then there's, blonde and beautiful BETTY GRABLE who was looking as cool as iced coffee watching the races at Hollywood Holly-wood Park track. Betty wore a cartwheel cart-wheel of coffee colored hand-ironed shantung. Around the crown was looped a length of cream colored veiling and Betty wore a simple, short-sleeved dress of coffee shantung shan-tung . . . Petite ANITA ELLIS, featured fea-tured singer on the Red Skelton show, claims the season's prettiest party hat. Pale pink maline swathes a deep crowned, medium brimmed frame. Scattered over the maline of the Keneth Hopkins designs are roses in a subdued American beauty shade ... A striking, hat in stark black and white straw is the summer favorite of JOAN BENNETT. BEN-NETT. Another cartwheel, next to the face is a circle of white with the outer circle in black. Miss Bennett Ben-nett wears the hat with an after-coon after-coon dress of black and a stunning Tr"""iJ"i Tflii'Wli'riw' inilMiiiriMlii iri i Frances Langford bib necklace composed of 16 stranda of pearls. CALIFORNIA VISITORS who expect to see a hatless Hollywood have been pleasantly surprised seeing see-ing such beautifully hatted celebrities celebri-ties as GAIL PATRICK lunching at the Brown Derby in one of the very new bicornes in linen straw . . . NADINE O'CONNOR enroute to Radio City for her Music Hall broadcast in a rough brown straw generously bowed in caramel taffeta . . . DEBORAH KERR dining at Chanteclair in a head-hugging froth of silk delphiniums . . . young LOUISE ERICKSON of NBC's "A Date With Judy" dining at the Players with a college beau wearing wear-ing a tiny brimmed cloche of red gingham. FAR WEST BEGINS IN UTAH "Utah is the place where the for west begins and where American Am-erican ideology is exemplified," declared T. J. Barman, Seattle businessman during a key address ad-dress before the American Society So-ciety of Mechanical Engineers meeting in convention m Salt Lake City. "The economic progress or the west (intermountain states and Pacific coast) . has increased more proportionately than that of the rest of the nation,'' he said, "and the increase is not finished, but represents a trend pointing to an ever expanding western economy." Mr. Barman supported his con-' con-' tRiuions with the following fig ures based on differences between be-tween 193U and 1947: Population of the far wes1 has gained 31 percent against 7 percent for the nation. Financial income has increased increas-ed 173 percent as against 130 percent for the nation. Retail sales have increased 171 percent againnst 125 percent per-cent for the nation. Factory employment went up 68 percent as against 46 percent for the nation. |