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Show "GAY GADGETS" I Associated Newspapers WNU Features By NANCY PEPPER HOW TO MAKE AN IMPRINT First It was jabberwocky and autographs au-tographs you wrote all over your slickers and station wagon coats. Now just see what's going on! Paint Paws We have it on good authority that boys are dipping their lily white hands into colored paint and are slapping their handprints on each other's slickers. slick-ers. Thumbprint Signature Sig-nature Instead of signing their names to letters, the members of one club sign off with a thumbprint. Each girl has a set of fellow-members' thumbprints thumb-prints on file for identification. It's all so mysterious that the FBI will probably be on their trail soon. ! Lip Prints We see lots of gals wearing white babushkas decorated decorat-ed with the lipstick Up prints of all of their best friends. Makes an effective ef-fective design. Wax Works II you see a girl and a boy each wearing a gob of wax on a lapel pin, look closer and you'U find the imprint of her thumb on his pin and the imprint of his thumb on hers. All you do is melt down the wax, make the imprints while it's still soft, and stick a pin on the back. First, of course, you find the boy. WORDS AND MUSIC Even if we didn't listen to the Bit Parade we could tell which tunes you treasured most, just by listening to your platter chatter over the soda fountain. In between ordering your white horse with red chimney (vanilla marshmallow sundae, with cherries) you'd be talking in song titles. Who Dat Up Dere? Everybody's quoting from this ditty made famous by Woody Herman. Is You Is Or Is You Aint? That's how you ask anything from "Finished "Fin-ished with your coke?" to "Are you going steady with me or just going?" Keep Your Powder Dry It might mean "Take care of yourself," or "Don't get yourself in a tizzy," and it's the song they sang in "Janie." Clang, Clang, Clang! It's the newest new-est wolf call and it comes from your favorite Trolley Song. Don't Fence Me In It means "Don't try to date me up." It's Roy Rogers' song and it's been on the Hit Parade for weeks. TRXE TEEN SAYS Advance spring fashions are the best cure for any gars midwinter blues. Be the first in your crowd to break out in print ( those swoony pastel backgrounds will send you) : be the first with a pastel pas-tel suit, too (light fuschia is your ticket if you really want to go places) ; be the first for your black Chesterfield. Everyone Every-one notices the first flower to bloom in the garden and everybody notices the first gal to blossom out in spring fashions. |