Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1957-02-14

Girl Scouts should ban this book
for all would-be Brownie leaders.
We wouldn't want to scare the
darlings before they even got
started.
Gene Bielefeldt, the Camp Fire
Girls Woodworking publicity gal
informs us that Warmers Thea
tire has arranged performance
of the Seven Wonders of the
World, the third Cinerama pro-
duction, for Potomac Area Camp
Fire Girls, Blue Birds, Horizon
Clubs and accompanying adults
on Saturday morning. March 2,
1890 a. m, 80 cents for each adj
mission.
A tour of Philadelphia has also
been arranged for two Saturdays
in March, % and 80. The cost will
be ten dollars round trip per
adult and six dollars per child
under II.
Starting time is 8 a. m. from
Washington; returning at 8:55
p. m. The tour will include the
Big Top Tv program, Independ-
ence Hail. Betsy Ross House,
Christ Church and Fels Planetar-
ium extra CHARGE.
Ships and Snaps: February is
always a blah month as far as /
am concerned. I can't really say
spring is here yet but I've had it
when it comes to winter; those
high spirits brought on by the
first snow have been worn down
by sloshing around in gooky mud
and the great out doors Is just
one great big sloppy mess.
Some people weather the great
Blah season by reading seed cat
alogues. But l find such reading
frustrating because after all you
can't DO anything about it.
Much more fun for me are the
interior decorating books and the
press releases from Retailing
Daily on furnishing fashions.
Their languarge is picturesque
enough to take the place of the
artists conception of tuberoses
and begonias in the seed cata-
logues.
For instance: New materials
and new construction techniques
have opened up a whole new
world of design and permit excit-
ing new shapes and forms in fur
niture design. This Is especially
true in the upholstered field. The
look that spells out elegance the
thinnest of thin lines, the light
airy suspended feeling, the dra-
matte flowing contour are what
the public is getting today"
Upholstered designs continue
to take to even higher legs. More
exposed woods, often sculptured,
are In evidence. Sofas show CAN'T
lever effects, with their ends
seemingly suspended over moth
ingness. Loose pillow backs have
become a bread-and-butter item
in practically every line. Pillow
shapes vary from conventional
squares to rounded tops, peaked
tops and half-octagons. While
sofas themselves are growing
longer, their ends start to curve
or angle around to permit nat
ural conversational grouping"
HOw's that for poetic prose?
1t may even inspire me to slip
cover that ratty old chair which
the cat has been using for
claw sharpener.
Now roll this one over your
tongue: Much of the drama in
today's lamps emanate from a
fascination with materials, not
new materials, perhaps but new
things to do with them, new ways
to mix and combine them"
Cherry and mahogany team
with satin brass or silver accents.
Stoneware ceramic parts combine
with natural-finished walnut. An
tigued ivory Italian faience i'm
ports are mounted on fruitwood
bases. Real and simulate mosaic
effects are among the most pop
ular new textural treatments"
Woods, too, make a transition
from simple styling to more dec
orative effects. Many of the new
wood lamps, done in rosewood,
mahogany, cherry, koruna and
wormy chestnut, are carved in
twisting spiral, taperod or sculp-
tured silhouettes."
One reading of this and I'll
PROBABLY take the plunge and
throw out the bargain shade l
bought five years ago which
doesn't quite fit the pottery lamp
which, as a wedding present, is
now-oh, my gosh!-almost 20
years old! Has it been that long
really?
What seed catalogue can COM
pete with this description Of dec
orative fabrics. Print designers
continue their rebellion against
modern starkness this season.