St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1957-05-17
THIS N THAT

| by hazel
underwood
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Jackson Mich. With five
other women we drove TO Jackson
10 attend the second annual style
show given by the Voguettes, Ga
group OF women. II was given in
large hotel and the huge crowd
filled the Auditorium TO overflow
into the balcony and the huge
lobby. The Voguettes had the
promise that the Kiwanis club
would match their money, dollar
for dollar. The proceeds were TO
be spent putting a block top on
the neighborhood playground The
style show was well worth going
to see and we know they must
have made quite a nice sum of
money
As we were leaving the hotel
we we're introduced 10 some
friends Of our hostess for the trip.
As soon as Minnesota was men
toned they wanted to know II
knew the Lawrences, so to
Helen and John Lawrence, Mr..
and Mrs Henry Mackins and Mrs.
Raymond Miller CMattie) were
anxious to hear about you. They
would like TO hear from you.
on the way back to Battle
Creek, we decided TO spend the
next week end in Detroit. One Of
the ladies' in the car said her god
child's mother, Julie Paige, is the
president OF the Detroit Urban
League Guild and the Guild was
having quite a few professional
models in their style show, so we
decided TO go.
Detroit, Mich.-Here we are sit
ting in the Gotham Hotel waiting
for the COLONEL o. N. Pages 10
come for us. We are TO be their
guests after the style show. Mrs.
Julie Cloteel Paige, as presi-
(all sepiaD
Never have l been in such a
beautiful place as is the Henry
and Edsel Ford auditorium. II is
so beautiful you enjoy just sitting
there looking, Watching the beau
tifully gowned women walking
down the aisles in their furs and
jewelry was a style show in itself,
The lights were dimmed, the
huge orchestra started playing
and the style show followed the
overture. II was really breath taxi
ing watching the professional
models and all OF the others on
the program perform. There were
models from the show rooms Of
the Chrysler Corporation and
from many other model agencies,
Tall sepiaD
There were between two and
three thousand people in the
building yet, when we walked out
into the crowd during intermis-
sion, the first person I saw was
Alyce Stewart and then her
daughter, Barbara. They both
/, looked like they might have been
b models Barbara Is as tail as her
mother and stin has the same
Z sweet shy smile she had as a
. child in Minneapolis Alyce said
% Rev. had a meeting in his church,
After talking with them for a
while, l said l would surely like to
Q see Nevada and "Bm" Seabron.
; Alycc looked around and believe
me, she said, look right back OF
YOU" There stood Mr. William NJ
Seabron, deputy director Of the
, FEP Commission Of the state OF
p Michigan, with his back toward
D us.
I went over and spoke to him
D II is SO nice seeing familiar faces
E when you least expect It. He ask.
/ ed about a great many OF you
Twin Ciuans. especially about
q Cecil Newman and Raymond Can,
a non. While we were waiting for
/ Nevada, I met Or Haley Bell
!. president Of the radio station
= WCHB. the Voice Of Progress. As
soon as he heard l was from Min,
{ neapolis, he asked about Raymond
= Cannon.
!. Nevada came out and was Just
i her same sweet self I asked a
bout the little girls. They wer,
sorry I did not have time to e
J. out and see their little" girls
! who are Carolyn, now age -
= Debby, age 10 and they have q
!. brother stephen who is seven
y Would you believe il has been that
long since they left Minneapoli,
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