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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1941
Page
6
Fashions in fresh flower arrangements promise summer brides 1941 the utmost beauty with white iris and white gladioli bouquets, orchids lilies roses stock and sweet peas in modern or old-fashioned styles. Parasols in sweet pea tones, corsages of lilies carnations and roses, and bonnet and garland designs offer elegant options for garden ceremonies.
A fashion note highlights a white flannel outfit balanced with a red and white polka dot blouse and white jacket. Accessorized with a white pigskin bag, doeskin gloves, and a chic white hat, the look emphasizes a daring but refined summer style.
The National Geographic Society notes American women wear more veils than Turkish women. Veil colors include pink white red green black and brown as fashion softens through summer. Veils now tie about crown hats with draped backs. Big brims reach up to nine inches and use soft materials like rippled black organza champagne straw chicken wire white straw and shirred red felt.
Telltale sleeves reveal the season’s change in dress silhouettes. Deep arm holes and smooth shoulders define the new look, with short sleeves or mere shoulder caps on light dresses. Longer sleeves show fullness below the elbow.
Designers embrace color on color in summer sheets. Nylon fabrics offer transparency and pairing options such as black over pink and navy over red. Orchid over pink or light blue creates an evening look.
The piece argues the United States could counter South American expansion by voluntary cooperation, bribery in the form of gifts, and selective trade pressure. It cites figures like Jesse Jones and a German economist, and frames economic warfare as a wartime reality played out through loans, diplomacy, and restricted purchases.
The government aims to raise poultry production, targeting 15 per cent more young chickens by July 1. Officials note a surge in egg laying as hens respond to the push. Dictator nations reportedly acquire nearly half of US cotton exports, a fact critics label economically soft for the dictators.
Washington notes reveal 300000 workers hired before 1937 still have not filed statements for full annuity credit. Congress authorized pre retirement credit checks and a million cards have been filed. A columnist offers to forward letters to the proper offices to help missing filers.
Elliott Nugent directed a scene for Nothing But the Truth from a Paramount set in Hollywood with Dewey Wrigley filming in Miami Beach by telephone. Marjorie Reynolds, famed for playing heroines opposite many western stars, stars again opposite Tim Holt in Cyclone on Horseback. Joan Crawford’s A Woman’s Face tops NY box office with Melvyn Douglas and Conrad Veidt in support.
Edmond O'Brien and Nancy Kelly spend their honeymoon working together in the RKO film Parachute Battalion. O'Brien has two long term contracts with RKO and Nancy, after A Girl A Guy and a God, is sent from Twentieth Century Fox to co star with him at RKO alongside Preston Foster and Harry Carey.
Actress Joan Fontaine finishes filming Before the Fact with Cary Grant and soon departs on a three week trip to Honolulu Tahiti and Pago Pago to unwind from Hollywood duties and press.
The article notes Spencer Tracy won Academy Awards in roles without the boy meets girl trope and mentions his Jekyll and Hyde encounter with Lana Turner and Ingrid Bergman. It also previews Sky Over Britain a Mutual network radio series by the British War Relief society highlighting civilian bravery in Great Britain.
Anna Neagle sends a print of Sunny to England for her older brother Alan Robertson, commander of a destroyer, who has not seen her or her films in over two years. The film will be flown to England then forwarded to him as a response to his request for a new photograph.
The Rudy Vallee program will not relocate to New York this summer. The planned move would have separated Vallee from John Barrymore, whose collaboration with Vallee remains popular and deemed unwise to break up.
The Big Store features the Marx Brothers as private detectives. Warners acquires a London air raid sound track for The Flight Patrol. Orson Welles seeks screen rights to Louisiana Hayride about Huey Long. Marjorie Main to play a landlady in Honky Tonk. Irving Berlin to write fifteen songs for Holiday Inn with Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire. Priscilla Lane Street dedicated in Burbank California.
An old look is blamed on excess waist fat and slack abdominal muscles. The ad promotes a 32 page booklet with exercises to tighten the waist, correct posture, fix shoulders and bust, and address legs feet and nerves. It urges sending an order to obtain the booklet.
Reader services offer a health and beauty exercise guide priced at ten cents. Enclosed request specifies 635 Sixth Avenue New York City as the address to receive a copy.
A dead great skua, one of the world’s most powerful birds capable of long flights, was presented to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington. It was shot in the Atlantic. The bird preys on penguins eggs and chicks, leaving many carcasses near penguin colonies during hatch season. A British aircraft shares its name with the formidable skua.
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