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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-04
Can't REGIMENT Women by Freezing Fashions Says Heller

ing on, as you feel a cold coming
on or a storm approaching. She
doesn't follow the styles; she
sets them. Her motto is. Don't
follow the fashion, and the fash
ions will follow you! y
II you were born to be hung.
you'll never be shot, as our.
grandmothers said. And If yo(1
were born to be chic, you'x
never be regimented.
Style is the woman!
Distributed by King Features synd., Ina.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-04

J THAT is how fashions started.
One woman-Madame- Pompa-
dour or Empress Eugene or
Irene Castle or Marlene Diet
rich-dramatized her hairdo or
individualized her clothes, and,
behold! all the others followed
like sheep and tried to initiate
the picture.
That's the trouble with our
fashions today. They are already
so well regimented by the sheep
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-04

like contingent that freezing
couldn't do them much harm.
Take a taxi through New York's
clothing district and you'll see
dozens and dozens of dresses on
racks, being pushed along-all
the same cut. color and style.
And all with stuffed sleeves.
WHAT WE need is individu-
allied styles. A woman with a
style sense can feel a style COM
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-04

an old beret. while another girl
can wear the latest Fifth ave-
nue. model and look as dowdy
as juniors old rag doll. It's all
in knowing how to dramatic
yourself!
No two girls in uniform ever
looked exactly alike. You sim
ply can't regiment women. Every
girl with style sense will do
something to make herself look
different. She'd manage to look
chic in a flour sack.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-04
SOME sTYLIsTs fear that

SOME STYLISTS fear that
women will be regimented by
fashion freezing until they be-
come a lot of monotonous, drab-
looking frumps.
Don't you believe IL! Style is
something with which a woman
lis born-or she isn't; just as she
is born with beauty, personality,
a singing voice or blue eyes.
ONE GIRL will look like a
fashion plate in raincoat and
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-04

ppnEnpn-Cd. River-Lahser. Park Free 4
hLDi UNI Randolph Scott. "PARIs
Plus Judy Canova and Tom
Brown IN "SIEEPYTIME GAL"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-04

T0Wrp-IasI3 Grand River no. Ssso 4
iVWLh AIR CONDITIONED COMFORT.
Open s:45 p. NJ. Park Free. Rosaiind
Russell. Don Ameche. THE FEMININE
TOUCH" Plus Gene Tierney and waltz,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-04

IINJTEn LRTISTS-BsEiey, Cd. Circus Pt-
UNiiLD hhiioio Omen ~ 10:45 A. NJ
ABBOTT a COSTELLO In "RIO RITA"
Plus "MOkEY," with Bobby Blake.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-04

Stacks for young men and
boys. Woven rayon and cotton
suiung in neat patterns. Ad-
Unstable side buckles. 8 20 IS.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-04

pAMpn--Gd. River ut Joy Rd. TY. 4-7s6l
hhiNDV Open 6;15 p. NJ. Dorothy
Lamour, Betty Cradle THRILL OF A
LIFETIME" LAW OF THE JUNGLE"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-04

RIM0Nl-GFatfot and 6-Mbe Park Free
hhmVNh Comfortably Cool. Matinee 1915.
27c, Plus Tax, TIL p. NJ. Randolph Scott,
Elizabeth Bergner in paris CALLING"
Plus 1.-THE PARsON OF PANAMINT."
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-04

UcTnpV-s7aS Grand River. TY. $500
vNIUhI Open $3.50. Jeanette Mac
Donald. "sMILIN' THROUGH" Chester
Morris In mo HANDS On THE CLOCK"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-04

Whoiu'uiVN CaroIe Lombard
and Jack Benny In ITO BIZ Or NOT TO
he" Plus SHUT nv BiG MOUTH"
Joe v. Brown. "America's New Army"
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1942-06-11
RADIO COMIC SHELTON
STARS IN "SHIP AHOY"

Red Shelton, one of the top radio
comedians, is co-starred with Elean-
or Powell in Ship Alloy" showing
now at the Mason City theatre. In
Guided in the all-star cast of the
picture are Tommy Dorsey and his
orchestra, Bert Lahr, and Virginia
O'Brien.
On Saturday, which is Genera
Douglas Macarthur Day., every per
son attending the Mason~Gity thea
tire will receive a Macarthur buttor
free
Also on the program at the thea
tire is Robert Brenchley coined!
and "Popeye" cartoon. Showing IL
the newsreel Saturday will be the
pictures taken of the first wate
going over Grand Coulee dam OF
last Monday.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1942-06-11

Rev. and Mrs. Kenneth Bomberg
returned Tuesday night from visit
in California, bringing with them
his mother of Palo alto. who will
be with them for part of the sum-
mer Mrs. Bomberg is expecting a
visit from her mother, who is on
her way home from a trip in the
east, this Friday,
Mrs. Roy Carpenter entertained
the bridge club at her home Thurs
day evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jasper Bechtol are
the parents of girl born Thursday
in a Wenatchee hospital.
Mrs. e. c.. Gilbert spent the week
end with Mrs Ernestine Cox at
Mansfield.
Mrs. John Beach of Forks is visit
ing her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. c. G.
Gilbert.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1942-06-11
THE INVADERS" DRAMA
OF FAR-FLUNG ADVENTURE


OF FAR-FLUNG ADVENTURE
The screens uncanny stabs at pro-
phecy have produced some startling
results in the past, but never has
the gift been used so dramatically as
opens June IL at the Roosevelt
Theatre with Laurence Olivier, Leslie
Howard Raymond Massey and Anton
Walbrook.
Todays headlines are filled with
stories of Nazi submarines raids on
North Atlantic coastal shipping.
Placed into prdocution more than a
year before the first enemy periscope
was raised above the choppy waters
of our coast, "The Invaders tells of
UBoats depredations in the Gulf of
St. Lawrence and Hudson Bay. Visit
ed by what now seems to be second
sight the scenarists foretold the
first German attempts to invade the
Western Continent and painted a
now well-established picture of saw
agery of Nazi undersea warfare.
The Governments of three great
| English-speaking countries backed
official interest in the photoplay
with official cooperation and movieN
names from all over the world beg
ged to be included in it's cast. In this
latter respect, Director Michael Pow
ell was able to pick and choose
How we'll he chose may be cleaned
from the fact that Olivier, Howard,
Massey, and Walbrook-internatio
up unparalleled in recent screen his
! tory.
"The Invaders" was conceived by
Director Powell, who achieved fame
a few seasons ago with his vivid
semi-documentary field, he knew the
potentcy and lure of cinematic
truth. But also being practical
| film maker he knew that audiences
cannot be swayed by theme alone,
They demand plot, action, color, ro-
nance and adventure
How to put these elements into
a photoplay which would glorify the
democratic ideal over Naziism was
Powell's first problem He wanted to
| M l. ir,tc bo
present state of affairs, but he didn't
want propaganda zeal to interfere
with an exciting photoplay.
AS the first step in the story, the
Nazi submarine is blown up in Hud
son Bay by the RCAF after it's des-
tructive career in Canadian waters
But portion of it's crew escapes and
starts to beat it's way across the con-
tinent in full confidence that it can
either hoodwink or bulldoze the in
habitants of a "decadent" demo-
cracy.
Powell purposely throws them in
to contact with people who, while
not sympathetic toward the Nazis
are not particularly antagonistic for
they have not yet been touched very
deeply by the war, and in the re-
actions of these people to the 'Nazi
New Order" points his theme that
the Nazi theology is the seed of self
destruction. Even in the face of
what might be called apathy, Nazi
conduct and philosophy are such
that they cannot be stomached by
people reared in the atmosphere of
democracy.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-27

gerry. They now seem to boast
of il.
The well known plastic sur
geon, DR.. j. Howard Crum. who
usually does a few public opera
tiOns AT these shows. brought
several of his former patients TO
the stage 10 show what had
been done for them.
These women walked up and
down the runway holding large
pictures of themselves. showing
how they looked before, while
they preened delightedly in their
new faces.
Surely we have gone a long
way from the day when women
wouldn't even let their own hus-
bands know they used rouge
and powder.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-27
Double Duty

PRACTICALLY Is as i'm
portsnt as gayety in the Holly
wood fashion parade The girl
who can give something a sly
twist to make il serve two pur-
poses has arrived, sartorially
speaking.
A chic example of two-timing
a la mode is Ann Sheridan's
beach costume which she wears
ice skating as we'll The en-
semble consists Of wine colored
Jersey shorts and a matching
bandeau attached by narrow
suspenders. Then when Ann
turns her thoughts 10 ice and
skates this becomes the perfect
foundation under q flared black
wool skirt and bellboy jacket.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-27

YOUR HANDSOME sailor
boy is really quite domestically
inclined. And so helpful every
day in the week What n picnic
your dish-drying Will be with
these towels And it's all such
fascinating StitcherE.
Pattern 2S0 contains a trans
fer pattern Of Z motifs averag-
inc 5XS inches: color schemes;
illustrations Of stitches, mate
rails required.
Send II cents in coins for
this pattern 10 The Laura
Wheeler Pattern Department,
1925 Times Square, Detroit,
Mich. Owing 10 customs regula-
lions orders for patterns 70
Canadian destinations cannot be
filled
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-27
Film Forum
For Next
Week

THE BATTLE OF PRODUC-
TON" is the subject for the
Film Forum meeting 10 be held
at 7:30 p. m, Monday, March 30,
in the auditorium Of the Main
Library, Woodward and Kirby
avenues.
Bomber" in which Carl
Sandburg is the narrator, and
"Subcontracting for Defense
are the two documentary films
10 be shown.
An audience discussion led by
Earl Church of the public schools
will follow the running of the
movies.
Film Forums are presented
weekly by the public library in
the interests of free speech and
intelligent consideration of the
vital problems of today.
The national sponsors Of the
project are the American
Library Association. American
Association for Adult Education
and the American Film Center.
Topics and films scheduled for
the remainder Of the series are:
April Canada and the War.
Films-"Wings of Youth" AT
lantic Patrol. {"
April IL - A Pan American
Front. Film-"South American
Medley"
Free tickets for each meet
ing may be obtained a week in
advance at the main and branch
Libraries.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-27
Slack Suit

PINK, PINkER and turquoise
three vivid colorS are com
bined in a brilliant lounge slack
suit.
Shirt is pink rayon faille (cap
sleeves only. the Stacks flame
rayon. Wrapped round and round
The waist, a sash ef deep tur-
quoise. Turquoise linen ghillies.
turquoise snood, complete the
ensemble.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-27
Times Starts
First Course
In Nutrition
BY IRENE VI. HAWKINS
women's Editor, The Detroit Times
BUSY DAYS!

BUSY DAYS.
It's a meeting here and
meeting there -. yesterday we
met with Mrs. John B. Ford.
vice chairman of the Detroit
chapter of the American Red
Cross, and Miss Mary M. Har-
rington. chairman of the Red
Cross Nutrition Committee.
Purpose of the meeting was
announcement by the Red Cross
of nutrition and canteen courses
to be given in Detroit.
The national nutrition pro-
gram is administered in the nu-
triton division of the Office of
Civilian Defense Health and
Welfare Services. federal secu-
rity agency. The American Red
Cross is one Of the cooperating
agencies in this program.
The object of these courses is
TO acquaint women with new
discoveries about food needs and
food values as they affect every
one in these changing times.
Certificates Given 60
At the end OF the 20-hour nu-
triton course. a certificate will
be given 10 all who pass examl-
nations and those women in turn
are qualified 10 go on with %
hour course in canteen work, al
the close of which they will re-
ceive a volunteer special service
canteen certificate. and they
may then 60 into Red Cross Can
teen Service.
II is not compulsory 10 take
the second course that is
only for those who wish 10 vol
unteer their services in that
work,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-27
Separate Bacon

TO EPAR RATE slices OF
bacon without tearing, try put
ting as many slices as you need
into the skillet. As the bacon
warns up. the slices will sepa-
rate readily with kitchen fork.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-27
Beauty Business Goes On
Despite War and Priori+ies
BY DONNA GRACE

WE HAVE just come from
the international beauty con-
vention. an annual event. held
at the Pennsylvania Hotel. New
York City. This show has been
anticipated somewhat anXiousiY
by shop owners and manufae-
turers. They all felt the Impor-
lance of getting together for
conferences due 10 shortage of
materials,
This great enterprise. which
they say ranks about eighth IN
the country's business, has been
hit hard, according 10 all re-
ports.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-27
Where 10 Apply

The courses have been very
efficiently planned by Miss Har-
rington. who is especially well
qualified for the job. as she has
been director Of dietetics for
Harper Hospital since 1929.
Miss Harrington graduated
from college toward the close OF
the last war and says one of her
first assignments was the feed.
ing Of 1000 people al Fort Riley.
Kan. during the flu epidemic
She has been measuring vitamins
and minerals ever since.
To take these nutrition courses
apply AZ the American Red Cross
headquarters, 2l63 East Jeffer-
son where groups will be
formed and teachers provided.
The First Class
But we are happy 10 tell
YOU that the very first OF these
courses will start Thursday,
April 2 o.. in The Detroit Times
auditorium for members OF
The Detroit Times Homemakers
Club, and for all readers Of this
newspaper who wish TO start
this first class with US.
There is no charge, Of course
but we must ask that you
telephone your registration so
that we may limit the class 20
the number Of people We can &C
commodate. To register. please
call The Detroit Times. Cherry
$500. line 3i7.
These Red Cross nutrition
courses will be taught only by
home economics graduates with
a major degree in nutrition and
years Of experience IN the food
field, 10 whom the work is not
new.
Prudence viii Teach
The Detroit Times classes will
be conducted by Prudence
Penny. who has been certified by
the National Red Cross.
All homemakers should he in
terestod in these nutrition
courses, SAYS Miss Harrington.
because they wifi present facts
about foods. food values and
newest principles in food prepa-
ration and service.
Good food and health. she
says. begin with the individual.
can be encouraged in the family
group and in time have a marked
influence on the community.
Ms Good 10 Know
Even though we may never he
seriously rationed on food. or he
called upon 10 use the training
given in these classes for public
service. such as mass feeding in
air raids here is an opportu-
nifty TO learn things that every
homemaker should know about
the proper feeding Of family.
You are cordially invited 10
attend this very first of the
Red Cross nutrition courses
at The Detroit Times sh -
ing Thursday, April 2. The time
is / to 3 p. m. BE sure 10 let
US know. won't you. so that we
may have your registration on
file
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-27
Require Prioriiies

ports.
Require Priorities
Most of their equipment re-
quires metals. rubber and many
other things on the priority lists
and some manufacturers have
already pla n ne d substitutes,
others had already enough mate
rial on hand 10 take care of
this years demands, but the
answer 10 all queries is, beauty
shops will continue 10 operate
satisfactorily
At these shows. the outstand-
ing hair styliSts and makeup
specialists hold classes and offer
their new styles for the benefit
Of operators throughout the
country. There are also lectures
on so many things that have 10
do with feminine charm these
include dentistry, plastic sur
gerry. exercises and hygiene.
Short Hair Popular
Our own fashion editors are
always ready with this news Of
the last word in style, but AT
this time local operators al least
know they can agree with them.
The good Of these meetings is
far reaching and we hope they
viii continue.
The high note in tho whole
show was short hair for all. The
length they approve is anything
from = 10 4 inches, so look out
for them. If you have nice hair
and expect 10 keep H. you will
have 10 watch your styliSt--he
can give you dozens of reasons
why you really should get rid of
all treSSeS not Of the current,
fashionable length.
Plastic Surgery
Along with other old scruples.
women no longer hesitate 10
admit their use of plastic sur
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-10

tastcaliy impulsve, beautiful "a combina-
uon that does not often occur in this world
When 1t does, it usually makes a deep i'm
preston.
Aimee started making one when she was
scarcely out of her teens California her
native State, became aware that il had q
problem child on its hands when in 1882
couple of roaring young bloods sat down to
poker game with Aimee as stakes She
had so agreed and so sat in and watched
with understandable interest.
The game was lent added zest by the fact
that her father, Judge Edwyn B. Crocker. of
the famous railroad building family. had lust
died leaving her the $4,000 600
The men playing for her were Richard
Porter Ashe, nephew of Admiral Farragut and
scion Of the family for whom AshevilIe. N. c..
IS named, and Henry F. Gillig- past-eeH--
modore of the Larchmont Yacht Club.
They played one hand of stud Ashe was
dealt four aces, and that cold hand won him
Aimee's warm one.
But the prize didn't stay his very long.
The split-uP came over the first STRINGS of
Aimee's yearning for the East expressed
rather modestly at that time in an insistence
on living in New York Ashe preferred the
West. SO, after the birth of a daughter
Gladys, Aimee was divorced, settled down in
Larchmont, on Long Island Sound, and devoted
the next seven years Of gle-blessedness 10
preparing herself for the great adventure
This preparation consisted largely of
knocking the ears off New York society with
series Of improbable parties featuring semi
nude Oriental dancers and mystic Rotations
She filled her home with Bohemians and
some 200 odd statues Of Buddha
I Occasionally. when the hired dancers grew
weary. she would entertain the guests with
few numbers of her own devising.
1t was natural that Harry Gig her dis
appointed sutton, should run into her occasion
ally during this period. for her chosen home
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-10

approached this loot with more subtlety.
She bought tobacco shop, stained her
skin the color Of the natives and settled down
for long siege. Burmese aristocrats, drop
ping into her shop for a pound of cut plug
were intrigued so was the local prince, when
he heard about it. An invitation to the
princely residence followed as a matter of
course.
Aimee arrived dressed as a native Burmese
dancing girl and. in fact, performed one of
those dances with which she had been wont to
enven her Larchmont parties II went over
big in Burma, too so much so indeed that the
entranced prince invited her to join his entour-
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-10

a legend among his peo-
pie she really ought to
have a shrine dedicated
in her honor.
Aimee thought that
would be nice. too, so,
not long afterwards.
N ic h olas Roerich, a
friend, was commits
stoned TO do the Job.
He drew up plans, put
some natives to work
and the first thing any
one knew there was the
shrine, complete with
bells. altar and a piano.
rama Of paintings de-
picting Aimee's Bur
mese invasion.
1t is, of course, the
avowed purpose of the
Japanese to cleanse the
Orient of all signs Of
Western influence, so
the bomb with the adj
dress of Aimee's shrine
written on it can not be
said TO have fallen be-
side the point.
Aimee was rich. fan
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-10

was also the scene of his
erstwhile distinction as
commodore Love had not
died in the Gillig breast it
had just been banked. Nor
did her present extravagant
behavior extinguish it.
Apparently the ex-commo-
dore figured that she had
gone about as far along the
mystical line possible and
that reaction was due; so
he married her, expecting to IL
benefit by it. Aimee re- ~
warded him, not with the ~
!: =. !. !. !. :: :.
expected reaction, but with AMxnM
the announcement that she ~~N
had at last decided to visit E
the countries of her spiritual H%n
adoption. x
Gilig didn't want TO 90
but there were plenty of
others who did She set
forth on her travels with
Dlzarre company of Bohemians, declasse aris-
tocrats fakirs and takers Like Columbus
she aimed TO reach the East by heading west
First stop was Hawaii then under the
sway OF a native king named Kalakaua. He
was renowned for his fabulous collection Of
jewels. Aimee wanted 70 get her hands on
these and set about it with simple fortnight.
ness, first by offering to buy them and then,
when that had failed, by turning on her
feminine charm.
kalakaua, however, was regretfuly forced
TO inform her that the laws and customs of
his people made him less the actual owner
than just the trustee of the royal Jewels In
other words, he was afraid she couldn't have
them, unless she wanted to put the matter to
popular vote.
In something of huff Aimee, and COM
pany, founced out of Hawaii Samoa the
island retreat of Robert Louis Stevenson. was
her next port Of call.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-10

A brief but educational sojurn with the
concubnes of a Burmese prince a nephew of
former King Thebaw, was one of the high
lights of her first pilgrimage. When she re-
turned, some thirty-five years later, that
dignitary had been succeeded by his son. a
young man of the most chivalrous disposition.
He chatted with her, snapped "reminiscences
OF his father and ended up by saying that
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-10
A jap Bomb Wrecked II. But
the Memory Of the Eccentric
Heiress. Who Had a Dozen
Husbands Is OfficioI). a Spirit
Double Resembling Apollo. and
q Pet Python for a Dinner
Companion. Still Lingers On
BY IVAN NARODNY

1 HAVE just received word from my friend, Professor
Nicholas Roerch the distinguished Russian artist now
y living in Darjeeing, India that perhaps the oldest
shrine in the world has been destroyed.
japanese bomb, aimed at the Burma Road, went
wide of its mark few weeks ago and demolished it,
The airmen may have regretted the incident as
waste of good metal and explosive they had known
more about their accidental target they would probably
have cheered up
For that shrine dedicated to no Buddhist saint
In fact it had connection with anybody even remotely
sanity.
1t was a memorial to unnhbited American heiress
named Aimee Croker Gouraud
Aimee who died last year cut almost deep a swath
through the Far East day as the Japs are doing
She went there twice; as young and beautiful woman
armed with $10000000 and a taste for mysticism and
again In middle to revisit the youthful
indiscretions
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-10

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