Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 November 1950 — Page 6

By PAUL GHALI PARIS, Nov. 22 (CDN)—The Paris fashion dictators are presently confronted with a disagreeable alternative. They must change: their tradition of producing only elaborate models for Wwell-filled purses, or face bankruptcy. Capt. Molyneux, the Englishman who opened his world renowned house, 5 Rue Royale, Paris, after World War I to dress royalty, has already folded up. Business was bad and he was losing money. | He is not alone. Jeanne Lanvin is reported ready to follow the Captain's lead. and Maggy Rouff, well known for her elaborate

fashion shows in her Champs Elysees salons, is not doing too well. .

Paris fashion shows this fall have been clouded by the couturiers’ lamentation “hard times.” . " ” = ~ ~ » THE CRISIS IS NOT a sudden one. It has been Jatent gine the end of World War I. But the reasons behind it seem suddenly apparent. = It is partly their fault and partly the fault of the government that Paris dress creators are in such deep water today. : They have made four mistakes. The government has made one. They may repair theirs but the government's will be something far more difficulty to handle

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Christian Dior or Jacques Fath,

The designers made their first blunder in the premise that the French capital could absorb an unlimited number of fashion houses. In 1932 Paris fashion was dictated by 12 houses, all interna tionally known, Now 30 houses are producing models, ~ The second mistake was to neglect smart Frenchwomen, who formed a basic clientele, in favor of Egyptian princesses, Hollywood movie stars and the wives of South American coffee barons. Frenchwomen are unable to pay their prices, so the couturiers have ceased making them special prices and now reserve their favors for foreign customers. The hitch is that this clientele only intervals. : An Egyptian, one of Cairo’'s most popular hostesses, has st been offered an entire new wardrobe by Mad Carpentier—if £4 will bring her Egyptian friends to her salon. This kind. of offer was currently made to French society women befqgre the war. They resent being ignored in favor of foreigners. So they go to second-class couturiers who copy the models of the first-class houses, If smarf Frenchwomen could not afford to buy 10 dresses at : they could at ledst afford to

comes at irregular

buy one occasionally.

Open House: To Mark

—— The Indianapolis Times

Anniversary

Joseph F. Matthews. 3326 N, Canitol Ave.. will celebrate tneir golden wedding anniversary with an open house from 2 to 4 ». m, Sunday It will be held in the home of their son Tofeph C. Mtthews, 4424 College Ave

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Friends a invited Es me ow - Mr. and Mrs. Earl C. Clampitt their 50th wedding

will observe i anniversary with from 3 to 8 » m. Sunday in their home. 2603 N. Gale St. There are no invitations. Assistants will be the Mesdames John Ferger. C. B. LaDine Florence Rettig. Emos Sunder “man and Dorothy Groetch. Miss Doris Driggs and Gertrude TIthoades.

in open house

” ” ” Mrs. Isabeile E. Cope; Alhambra, Cal, will arrive Friday to be| the guest of her sister, Mrs. Theodore F. Fleck, 5623 E. Washington St. They will leave by plane Saturdar for Washmgton to attend the, annual convention of the United States Savings and Loan League. Mrs. Cope is a delegate. Mrs. Fieck, Seventh District, | Indiana Federation of Clubs president-elect, will visit the national headauorters of the Genal Federation of Women's Clubs while in the Capitol Pec. 1 Mrs. Cope and Mrs, Fleck will join Mr, Fleck in-New, i York for the holidays.

Canasta— ’ Swapping Horses in Middle Of Stream Ends With Defeat

By OSWALD JACOBY IT IS A LOT OF FUN to wander around the table and look at all the hands when a canasta game is in progress. Also, it is remarkable how much better you can play when you see four hands. However, in the case I am about to discuss, it should not be necessary to see four hands to realize what was wrong with East's play. Both sides needed 120 and the dealer froze the pack | by turning “up a jokér. After. several rounds “of play South melded A-A-2 and’ joker-9-9. - West drew and discarded and after making his draw North thought a lang while (obviously about melding) finally decided not to meld and simply discarded. East drew and melded joker-king-king-king anfi 2-8-8. West added one king to the meld and “Fathing “happened for-—a- couple of rounds. . knew his King was safe since Finally poor. East drew and (44 Kings had been discarded found himself holding one deuce. 25,4 ho decided to fhrow it ene king. two queens and a 10

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or sets of three and only a few pairs. However West did have plenty of safe discards. His | hand was so bad that no one | could use his cards. Poor East counted the cards remaining. in the stock and found that he had six more discards to make assuming that thé hand went-to the end—tHe:

Fast's next draw wag the Three 10s had Deen di1s¢ sraed king and he discarded that also and it was. a cinch that Sout! Hic art diaw was a sreond 30 § + oJ 1s 2 ong 5 didnot have a pair of 10s amon, spot and here is where Fast

his five cards went as wrong as it is possible

~ ALSO, 1 had seen the South to go wrong “hand and knew this. Als6 I had Fast seen West's hand and knew that he had the worst collection of

discarded a South got the discard pile and before the smoke of the hand had cleared away North.and South had picked up aver 3000 points

queen

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BRING THE CHILDREN ACTUALLY a 10 would still have been a safe discard and TO SEE : &s. pointed out earlier South

should have known that a 10 was very likely. to be safe. However, South shouldn't have | thrown his wild card away. corots-badie-fre-dmed

‘away a king. Af that time he stil had six rounds to go Now: he had four rounds. to KO, or three: after ‘that discard. He might draw badly and away. the pack later but he was discarding to a tive card hand and he might aswell draw =afe cards last three rounds Finally, my real quarrel with East's line of play is that. he swapped horses: in mid-stream:. for no good reason. When he threw the first King he had de cided to try. to play safely to the end. Once having made that

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answer individual questions on

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HOURS 10:00 M. to 12 Noon 1:30 oo oy an Sq uire Club Sor: Our. Plans Dance

Wonderful ‘New «~ Collection of

The RUB squire club~ Brond Ripple High Schonl students. will sponsor a - semiformal dance Saturday in‘the Crystal Room 6 the Spink Arms Hotel.” Joe Leonard and his orchestra will play ‘from 9 to 12 p. m. One of the following five candi dates will be crowned quéen Lynn Behrman, Carolyn Harris, Lynne Holliday, Helen Middleton, Merri’ ‘Jo Ober and Janet Sage. : - Tom Heidenreich is prezident of

| the organization. The. dance chairman is Prank Walker, |

TOYS, BOOKS, GAMES

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be added. The number of children who have gone to sléen coddling a Raggedy Ann must now be lezion Cotton tovs are, in the bag this Christmas, - Made to neat’ patterns from handy cotton

feed bags, more fun for any small child. Cotton 10-pound 100-pound._feed. bags...

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TO THE ‘airly ‘long list of so beloved that ccome imperishable od cotton toy must

they’ll make Dec. 25

bag sizes range from sugar sacks to the

These hag: come. in. floral Sational prints, stripes and checks. The charted in every several patterns -0-i0 hot iron {rans-

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ters body parts while the prints 1, #2 =» make pretty. doll clotheg and Easily Wvailable at bakeries. novel stuffed animals. Rrocery stores and feed dealers ~The delightful dachshund is over 150000100 of these feed made from a strived feed bag and. flour bags were snapped-up and measuras 17 inchés from last veal In fact. his small hiack nose to the tip v heen known to buy of his pointed tail His pati feed far the chickens in tern has the hotiiron transfer rder to. ger the exact. print designs fv wan or home sewing i x Upside-down™. Suzy easily The bod yt Pee he Mor made from.three small cotton key is made ‘rom a flour bag bags. is reaily two dolls. She in dark solid color with ‘white has: two dresses. two smiling = sack material for the feet and

faces, a bounet for the white face A’ lively polka dot fashface and a ~black The

bandana for the ions hig bow tie creeper’ doll, planned as a gift for a little girl, looks

baby . at the crawling

The . plain white or pastel

fine for like" a

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~ WEDNESDAY. NOV. 22, 1950

* THE THIRD MISTAKE is the high price asked for even the simplest ‘models. : : A black jersey with a féw black beaded buttons as sole ornament made by Fath this fall cost 100,000 francs (about $285). The simplest evening dress designed by -Dior cannot be obtained for less than 200,000 francs ($570) while a, cocktail dress costs at least 135,000 frances ($385). = Even wealthy and smart foreigners are reluctant to pay such prices today as the life they lead compels them to buy not one but several occasional dresses. The big couturiers have tried to lessen the coming crisis by opening “boutiques” or small shops in the ground floors of their houses. Here dresses may be obtained at cheaper prices. They have failed, so ‘far, to attract much custom. The dresses are usually too simple and not always well finished. The creation of a poo! of models made by an associatiea of hig couturiers has been more. successful, joined have sold especially to’'French provincials who are always proud of showing the “tag” to their friends. But this has only been a drop of water in a. bucket. y : The fourth mistake made by the couturiers since the war has been to install themselves too sumptuously. Christian Dior,

Jacques Fath and d Maggy Rouff have elaborate interior decora-

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Stuffed cotton tays are simple to make, easy on the Christmas budget. The toys sirrounding this mother are made to patterns, from economical and handy cotton feed bags.

charted in each pattern.

Turtle and Duck: 5576 name, address and the pattern number for each pattern desired to Anne Cabot, The Indianapolis Times, 372 W. : Quiney St SChieagy 6; Ik Tillie the Turtle and Danny i the Duck may sound like a PaHern for Cake pair of miniature mobsters but actually are without guide. lie can be made up in' bright plaid animal print. 3 ea NOTE: To obtain patterns for any of “the toys shown; - send 25 cents in coin, your

stage. Dressed in a cotton bag diaper and juvenile print romper, it has a glowing complexion which comes from a pink cot-

sugar falls through the holes and forms a deflgn. so when you lift the. doily..off.

lace-patterned sugar top

and those who have .

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Til- The next time you're sprinkling confectioners’ sugar on a cake. do and Danny takes to an jt over a paper-lace doily. - The

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tions which they change every two years at great cost. Gilbert Orsel, thé hat maker, changes his alteraiions every year. Dior has a staff of about 800. So have many of the others. They all could do with far fewer. All this sumptuous ouflay adds to the cost of the dresses. The government's Mistake is high taxes. One couturier tells me that about half the price he asks goes to meet the taxes and overhead. : . 8 a = : ® x = THE PRESENT CRISIS in the French fashion business is threatening the livelihood of 850.000 persons. The remedy lies, of course, in reducing the number of dresses shown each season in the fashion shows. Some houses show 100 models. They should show 20 or 30 and try to cut down prices, ~ There should also be an effort to popularize here the wearing of ready-made dresses with one fitting as in America. ~ Molyneux is being ‘taken over by a French deputy ‘from Normandy, Pierre Livry Level, who, according to report, is preparing to launch the ready-made dress in Paris. Fanatics of Paris fashions feel that all these reforms may mean a complete change in the Parisian atmosphere. But for the big couturiers the gestion is fast becoming a question of life or death.

Christmas Toys Come From the Workbasket College Play

To Be Given Here Nov. 29

Mask and Mantle, the Earlham College dramatic society, will present a play at a joint meeting of the Earlham Men's Club and the Indianapolis Earlham Women's Auxiliary. Society director is Arthur Little. The event will he Nov. the First Friends Church “will be a 6:30 o'clock dinner.

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Anvaone interested in Earlham or in amateur dramatics is invited to attend either the dinner or the play, reservations mayv be Hard Wal-

Dinner made with Mrs. H. Wi ter by Monday. Mr. and Mrs. George H. Batt are “presidents of the two Earlham clubs sponsoring the emning’'s eptertainment. ” = » Miss June Hutchens. 2136 Broadway, will be hostess at 1:30 p. m. Saturday for a meeting of the Junior Group, Robison Ragsdale Unit, American Legion Auxiliary. Members will make scrapbooks for Riley Hospital, “to and from" Christmas gift cards and cork Stitches are calendars for

/ The hostess is junior chairman,

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