The Washington times., 1936-03-28
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Dress Designer
VieWs d. C.
RISKY JOBS
BY HELEN ESsARY


Is causing the French couturieres
So much anguish. is at the May
flower Hotel.
Miss Hawes came down from
New York to have a weekend
look at the towns fine build
tngs. She may also regard Wash
ington women architecturally and
Z consider their clothes sense. And
maybe-just maybe-when she
goes back to New York she Will
= put q few extra decorations on
her spring models.
Miss Hawes is an extraordinary
person. The Soviet government
asked her to come to Moscow and
suggest styles for Soviet women
She was the first American de-
signer to show her models in
Paris.
A Vassar graduate, she later
studied under Patou in Paris.
She has an intellectual turn OF
mind, q flair for economies, is
small, witty and quite likely to
appear at party in a year-betore-
last sweater suit or in a dazzling
new costume.
Writing of Miss Hawes reminds
me that q washington stylist was
complaining the other day tnat
in no city in the world are as
many print silks and flowered
chiffonS worn as in washington.
Each wear buyers hope they
may be able to sell plain taorlcs
which are becoming to all sorts
, Of faces and figures. The demand
for Splotchy serviceable materials
is so great, however, that before
the season is over a rush order
''bring on the prints has to be
sent to manufacturers.
Miss Jane Hoey, the woman
member of the Social SecurltleS
Board, has a sense Of humor.
In washington this week for a
series of addresses, sh0 tells OF
an amusing conversation, in the
cause of social service, with a
street beggar. She said to the
man:
'T have discovered that you
have q bank account, big One'
yet you pose as q wretched GRIP"
nile on a street corner and prac-
ficaIly demand big offerings
from kind-hearted pasSers-by.
The beggar answered:
'Tt's this way, lady. A fellow
like me runs an awful risk max
ing a living. He exposes him
self To rain and SIeet and Is
likely to get pneumonia ana
> everything else. Nobody with
INV kind Of a job can live
long. have to make money
fast"
So Miss Hoey, in her note
book listed beggars under "Haz-
ardous Occupations"
Elderly Democrats dined in
celebration Of Jackson's birthday
at the price Of $50 a plate ana
a risk to their digestions.
Young Democrats will dance on
April 13 at 81 a couple in honor
of Thomas Jefferson's Birthday.
On this happy event about So
600 ardent young New Dealers
in costumes of the colonial period
win curtsy in the Virginia reel
and minuet.
Each girl will have an old
fashioned dance program. On
the end of each program cord
will be a wedding ringCjust in
case a leap year proposal may
need binding. Autographed pic
lures of President Roosevelt will
be the reward for the best cos
TUNES of each Young Democratic
! group.
Mr.. Charles E. Bohlen recently
hack from embassy service in Mos
cow and now in the State Depart
ment, says you can find anything
in Russia tha+ you are looking for.
This he thinks is why so many
conflicting stories are written
about the Soviet Republic. Beauty,
hideousness, nobility, degradation,
poverty and filth, all the extremes
that one discovers in any civiliza-
ton are there-accentuated. Mrs,
Bohlen, by the way, is young,
blonde and graceful.
Another traveller, recently re-
turned from the U. S. S. R., tells
me that the preSent-day Russian
women are what people where ]
came from in Maryland call
'piain." Square, big muScled from
working at hard tasks, they are
likewise unfeminine from lack OF
interest in their personal appear
ance.
The young people in Russia, how.
ever, those born since the New Era
began, are mervelous, this trav'
eler says. They lack self conscious
ness, feel themselves capable of
any success. AS for sex, they have
stopped thinking about it.
Two Irish gentlemen of diStinc'
ton were discovered at the recent
Egyptian Embassy reception argu.
ing about the drama.
One gentleman, DR.. Thomas H
Healy, dean of the Georgetown
Foreign Service School, said that
the purpose of the stage was to
emuSe.
Mr.. Michael MacWhite, Minis.
ter of the Irish Free State, dis.
agreed. He said that the stage
should reflect life-all Of life.
DR.. Healy replied:
with that remark you agree