Farce of a Country Drive and a City Scout
Kathleen Mansfield confronts a reckless car mishap on a rural road, meets a sardonic New Yorker who helps tow her sedan from a ditch, and debates vida about journalism values and money. At home her mother Laura prepares for a social visit while Kathleen wrestles with pride and looming family pressures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kathleen Maguire
Kathleen
Thleen
Dixie
New York
Cleveland
St. Louis
Deak
Se Ang
Covington Clarion
Mike
Julia
Laura
Miss Lolly
Blumer
Darling
Shirley
Jaird
Jaird Newsom
Hand-Crocheted Hat Bag Sets Headlines Summer Style
Cherie Nicholas highlights hand crochet as a popular summer trend with hats and bag sets. She notes simple tools, easy patterns, and low-cost materials for stylish, wearable crochet outfits including turban, pill box, beret, Gibson sailor, pigtail calot, and lace trims.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gibson
Western Newspaper Union
Dinner in Covington Aunts Craft A Dinner Party
Laura Maguire toils in a crowded Covington kitchen preparing a six to seven p.m. four course dinner with Hulda as helper. She markets chicken and strawberries and polishes silver while avoiding mismatched service pieces and a cracked dish repaired with wax.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Laura Maguire
Laura
Hulda
Covington
Maguires
New Sports Fabric Frock With Ripple Crepe Style
A chic frock shows a new sports fabric in Celanese rayon and silk. The rough crepe uses a splash effect yarn twist for an uneven texture, offering attractive appearance and dependable wearability, with a smart accented hipline.
Open throat necklines rising this summer
Blouses feature open throat necklines and low cut V shapes. The trend favors low cut square round or heart shaped necklines in current fashion.
New Cottons Make Fashion Headlines
Cotton fashions headline this season with crinkly seersucker suits at the races and chambray dresses with stripes. Bright yellow denims, gabardines, floral chintz, gingham party frocks, and prettified cotton sheets showcase a colorful wardrobe range for formal and informal wear.
Lace Set for Summer Fashion Surge
Cotton fabric type lace enters the fashion picture with an allover pattern. The lace is practical for dresses redingotes and various summer ensembles including suits tailored of starched cotton lace in white or colors.
Week End Matchmates Five Piece Cotton Ensemble
The five piece matchmate cottons are selling nationwide. Practical and attractive outfits include pajamas or slacks, shorts, bra top, butcher-bey smock and knee deep coat.
Moonlight Blonde ties boosted by gala hair news
Vera Garbo adopts a new hair tint Moonlight Blonde crafted by Sydney Guilaroff and inspired by Botticelli with a Napoleonic fringe. Tim Holt to co star with father Jack Holt Victor McLaglen and Edmund Lowe in The Marines Are Ready. Baby Keeler Charles Boyer travels east for French plays benefiting war relief. Marlene Dietrich names five as the most womanpower figures Clark Gable Orson Welles Ernest Hemingway Erich Maria Remarque and Howard Hughes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reta Garbo
Sydney Guilaroff
Metro
Botticelli
Tim Holt
Jack Holt
Victor McLaglen
Edmund Lowe
RKO
Tim
Marlene Dietrich
Clark Gable
Orson Welles
Ernest Hemingway
Erich Maria Remarque
Howard Hughes
All Through the Night Stars Highlight 1940s Cast Shuffle
Olivia de Havilland and George Montgomery star in a film set with Joan Fontaine, Herbert Marshall, and Geraldine Davis linked to RKO. The piece notes Pryor touring with a major orchestra after Bullets for YY Hara and praises Joan Crawford’s performance while Rise Stevens deflects attention to family ties.
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Olivia de Meovilland
George Martore
Parner Bros
Olivia
Joan Fontaine
Pce
Rise
Reesak) Stevens
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Harry Pucx & S
Yin
Cire
Mra
Harry Pugh Smith
Peter Pan
By Cherie Nicholas
Maguire
Tesh
Virginia Vale
Paramount
Bob Hope
Edward Arnold
Leif Erikson
Glenn Anders
Hope
Ruby Keeler
al Jolson
Shell
Harriet Hilliard
Gordon Oliver
Ozzie Nelson
Miss Keeler
Texas Guinan
Stad
George Raft
Baby Keeler
Charles Boyer
East
Montreal
Virginia’ Weidler
Barna
Larry Parks
Robert Montgomery
Eve
Henry Fonda
Preston Sturges
Sullivan
Joel McCrea
McCrea
Veronica Laka
Sturges
Lady
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