Evening star., 1950-01-30

for the current issue of Holiday,
complete with interesting and
witty stories on our home town,
and adorned with colored pictures
so handsome that a fresh wave
of Government girls to Washing
ton in the near future is not at
all an impossibility.
Howard Whitman, in the
Woman's Home Companion, talks
kof Observation-Disclosures to the
Nation" In its sesquicentennial
year. with many eyes on the
Capital city, Mr.. Whitman points
to its medieval slums, denial Of
suffrage, miserable local govern
ment and Jim Crowism" that
have been swept under the "mar-
BILE carpet" the city presents to
the world.
Cornelia Otis Skinner talks Of
"The Radiant Ethel Barrymore"
in McCalrs, in the first of two
parts of an article on the Queen
of the American Theater." The
article is an interesting one, in
terestingly told, as it relates some
thing of the story of Mrs. Drew,
grandmother of Ethel, and Of
Ethel's mother. George Drew
Barrymore, both figures in the
theatrical world. Miss Skinner
traces the story thus far from
the days of the shy. awkward girl
who showed promise as a concert
pianist, to the young actress who
became the toast of London, a
friend of Ellen Terry, of Sir Henry
Irving and of Henry James.
Readers Digest talks of the way
in which an Indiana insurance
man, Ed Gallahue, decided to
"sell" nursing careers, and lured a
full quota of nurses (and a visiting
list for all three Methodist hospi-
tails in Indiana. The article, by
Milton Mayer, is condensed from
The Christian Advocate. For $500
plus three years of interesting
work, Mr.. Gallahue urged, girl
could buy a career in nursing,
with good pay and lifelong Sc
curity. Such a career, he added.
had the additional advantage Of
being perfect preparation for
marriage and motherhood"
A team appointed by Gallahue
visited Methodist high school
camps in the State, showing
movies of nursing and talking to
hundreds of girls. Ministers, vo-
cational counselors, newspaper
editors, and others co-operated in
publicizing the Indiana Plan" I"
Women's clubs, junior chambers
of commerce, veterans organiza-
tions and other groups helped to
recruit girls.
The successful plan was ex-
tended to six other States. Urging
Iother denominations to adopt it,
Gallahue contends it could cure
the national nurse shortage In
two years.
Good Housekeeping again gives
its annual report on small colleges,
complete with vital statistics on
an approximate hundred of them,
and a discussion of their partic-
ular merits. &.
House and Garden, in a beau-
tifully Illustrated issue, makes a
point of ideas" and the things
that give house distinction. The
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel
Dretzin of Chappaqua, New York,
Illustrates the points the mag
azine's editors would make. Glass,
lighting, walls that work, good
equipment, proper sight, and
harmonious planting are the
things the Dretzins have built into
their home.
Did you know. asks the Ameri-
can Home, that a lambs wool
covered shoe brush does a fine Job
Of polishing polished surfaces of
most furniture that a soft
cloth moistened with rubbing al
cohol or carbon tetrachloride will
make stubborn bits of wax vanish
from candlesticks that a piece
OF strong wax paper wrapped
around the blade of knife will
be very helpful in cutting slices
OF cheese and making butter
pats?
AS self-conscious as a photo
graph of Truman Capote, the first
issue Of the highly publicized
Flair Is now on the stands. A
monthly. the new magazine has
an editor Fleur Cowles, wife Of
Gardner Cowles, publisher Of
Cowles Magazines, Inc, creators
OF Look and Quick as well as
Flair.
The double cover, embossed and
with a die-cut on the outside
fcover revealing the inner one "a
permanent feature of the maga-
zine) is handsome one, we think.
Another makeup feature that
struck us as interesting is the
publishing of essays such as that
by Jean Cocteau, in this issue, in
pamphlet form, that can be cut
easily in their entirety from the
magazine. The use of half pages
struck us as, on the whole, inef-
fective rather than effective, in
some cases actually detracting
from the make-up's good looks.
Tennessee Williams, Barbara
Ward and Charles j. Rolo, as well
as Mr.. Cocteau, are contributors
to the magazine. Mr.. Rolo dis
cusses the New Bohemia, Mr..
Cocteau muses. engagingly on New
York. Margaret Biddle, wife Of
the ambassador to eight govern
ments in exile during the war,
does piece on the Paris House
of the Duke and Dutchess Of
Windsor. The fashion coverage,
attractively illustrated, is not un-
usual. Romantic lighting for
glass houses is discussed, and Flair
also introduces Duel" a new card
game for two.
An interesting experiment in
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