Evening Silhouette Goes Classic By CHERIE NICHOLAS
Fashion writer Cherie Nicholas surveys winter social gowns inspired by art and antiquity. Gowns emphasize flowing velvet crepes silk and metallics with sculptural draping, jeweled belts, and Grecian silhouettes. Featured designs include Jeanne Lanvin magenta crepe gown and hammered silver cloth ensembles with harem hems and bold color contrasts.
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Rome
Jeanne Lanvin
Western Newspaper Union
Metal Cloth by Cherie Nicholas
A long sleeved dinner gown in glittering silk lame shows elegant fabric with simple styling. The Far East influence appears in a silk lame turban and a long vivid sash with side pleats at the hemline. Low heeled sandals complete the look.
Fur blouse adds wrinkle to the season fashion scene
The fur blouse emerges as a new accessory alongside velvet suits and white galyak pieces. A peplum blouse with short sleeves pairs with a white galyak top coat and Cossack turban. Fur vests and muff options in wine green and brown complete coordinated ensembles for in-between occasions.
Elaborate Trimmings Now Feature Shoes for Evening
Paris fashion report notes evening shoes with elaborate effects and Greek inspired shapes. Salome style showcased in glass like acetate fabric from Col combet.
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Paris
Velvets Usher In Styles For Dresses Coats And Hats
Velvet fashion gains prominence as dresses coats suits and hats feature noncrushable velvet fabrics in current styles. Designers highlight versatility and luxury across wardrobe essentials for the season.
U S TO Speed Up Hunt For Redfern
A State Department report adds that Paul Redfern may be alive in Dutch Guiana. An expedition led by Maj. Willis Taylor could be launched soon with support from explorer James La Varre and consular agent James S. Lawton. A Creole teacher described sightings of a wrecked plane and a white man near Sapakunu and Paloemeu.
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Washington
State Department
Paul Redfern
Dutch Guiana
Redfern
William la Varre
Guiana
la Varre
Maj
Willis Taylor
Ace
Panama Canal Zone
Jamess. Lawton
Paramaribo
M. A. Melcherts
Drie Tabbettes
Tapanahol
Kapan
Sapakunu
Paloemeu
Plaiman
Taylor
la Warre
Brunswick
Rio Janeiro
Suriname
Dahomey
Indian Learns to Write at 51 in CCC School
Joe Starr a full blooded Blackfoot Indian and CCC camp member in Assonet Mass. learns to read and write after months of study under Camp Instructor Abial Hammond. His first letter to Maj. Gen. Fox Conner thanks the chance to write English and mentions his wide wanderings from Butte to Singapore and Boston's CCC shelter.
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CCC
CCO
Joe Starr
Joe
Butte, Mont
Singapore
Boston
Sacred relics turn to dust in Notre Dame spire
The sacred relics housed in the spire cock of Notre Dame Paris have turned to dust during cleaning work. The relics of Sainte Genevieve and Saint Denis, placed in the cock in 1860, were long considered protectors of Paris.
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Paris
Notre Dame
Viollet le Duc
Sainte Genevieve
Saint Denis
Military Music Academy Set Up by German Army
The German army plans a new Academy of Military Music to train musicians alongside soldiers. Located at Bueckeburg, the program aims to start first classes in mid November as conscription returns to full force.
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Berlin
Germany
Bueckeburg
Lights of New York at Central Park Zoo
A New York feature on Central Park Zoo boarding animals for a fee, noting monkeys as the most common, and recounting the Genevieve tale where a Park Avenue mistress failed to reclaim her pet monkey. The piece also mentions famous visitors like George M. Cohan and Alfred P. Sloan Jr. enjoying park sights.
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New York
Central Park
Frank Buck
Martin Johnson
Balto
Raymond L. Ditmars
Bronx Zoological Park
John Toomey
Park
Genevieve
Park Avenue
Long Island South Shore
Central Park Zoo
Fifth Avenue
George M. Cohan
Alfred P. Sloan, Jr
Carrie Nation Hatchet Legend Is Shattered
Mrs Lillian Mitchner, president of the Kansas W I T U, says Carrie Nation did not wield a hatchet in her famous dry crusade, using stones instead and stating she helped to release Nation from jail in Manhattan Kansas.
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Carrie Nation
Manhattan
Kan
Lillian Mitchner
Kansas
Spiders Rout Prairie Dogs in Lewiston, Mont
Black widow spiders won a complete victory here as a prairie dog town was evacuated. Reports note webs across the entrance to the town and describe the local area as a busy sector last spring.
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Prairie
Lewiston
Mont
Millionaire Akron Will Leaves Michigan Home To Help Widow
Philip H. Schneider estate valued about $1,000,000 will give major share to a Michigan hamlet of 2,000 souls with Lowell, Michigan boyhood home slated to receive the bulk after Mrs. Schneider's death in Akron.
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Akron
Ohio
Michigan
Philip H. Schneider
Lowell, Mich
Schneider
How to Vary Meat Dishes From Hamburger to Swedish Meat Balls
A household guide describes varying meat dishes with economical options like Swedish meat balls and baked Hamburg steak. It includes recipes for baked Hamburg steak and Swedish meat balls, plus a French dressing, and notes on preparing accompanying sides and coffee.
First Skyscrapers In Edinburgh Reveal Historic High Homes
Travelers may still spot early Edinburgh houses built unusually tall inside the city walls where space was limited. These structures, dubbed sky scrapers in local lore, reflect constrained urban design from the era.
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Edinburgh
Scotland
Flared fashion frock with drop-shoulder yoke and puff sleeves
A fall fashion pattern description highlights an all occasion frock with back and front flares, a drop-shoulder yoke, puff sleeves, a tiny round collar, and surface rich novelty crepes or sheer wool options. Pattern 2397 offered in sizes 12 through 40 with 8 1/2 yards of 39 inch fabric for size 16. send 15 cents to Pattern Dept., New York City.
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West Seventeenth St
New York City
Ice Shortage Hits Reykjavik As Iceland Lacks Ice
A Rochester letter notes that Iceland faced an ice shortage for the first time as heat melted glaciers and icebergs supplying Reykjavik. The piece mentions the irony of carrying ice to Iceland and cites an unusually hot Icelandic summer.
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Iceland
Newcastle
Reykjavik
Taylor-Tycos
Rochester
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