THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, PORTLAND, MARCH 15. 1914.
for a Bovel he is writing dealing with
FRANCE'S MOST BEAUTIFUL WOMAN
IS IN LOVE WITH UNITED STATES
Margaret Romaine Makes Instant Success in "The Midnight Girl1 The-Marchioness of Dangan's Husband
Earns His Own Living and Once Was London Cabby Miss Wilson's Appearance Credited With Helping Play.
the negro.
Margaret Romaine is a Utah girl who
has made a -sudden success on Broad
way in a light opera called "The Mid
night Girl." She is a sister of 'Hazel
Dawn, and comes from Salt Lake City.
She studied music in Paris for four
years, and then went on the stage in
opera comique, singing in "Louise."
"Manon" and other operas of high class.
Then she decided to go into lighter
opera, and her first engagement was
with "The Midnight Girl." in which
George Macfarlane is being starred by
the Shuberts. She took the audience
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by storm on her first night.
Mae Picard was a chorus girl. Now
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-Mme. Leone Georges Reboux,
said to be the most beautiful
woman in France, is at the Hotel Bel-
N
mont with her husband, M. Paul Re
boux, the editor of the Paris Journal.
Her most surprising statement on
her recent arrival was that she did not
care for Paris, and that she was de
lighted with her first day in America.
Mme. Reboux is a pain'er of porcelains.
She is not a suffragette, she said, but
she lived only for her husband and her
art. M. Reboux is here to get material
Ehe is Lady Dangan and she joins the
ranks of the "titled American women."
But don't envy her. Her husband is
a chorus man, who before he took to the
stage earned his living by driving a
cab in London, tie is tne eldest son and
heir of Earl Cowley. His father is not
rich, and he has refused to support the
Marquis. In time the former Miss
Picard will be a 'real Countess and
wife of a belted Earl whatever that is.
These titles ought to be worth some
thing on the stage in London, if not In
America.
Miss Charlotte Hermann is the beau
tiful New Jersey girl who, as compan
ion to "Affinity" Earle, the eccentric
American artist, was tried with him
last week at Romorantin, France, on
a charge of kidnaping Earle's 8-year-old
son from a private school at La
motte - Beauvron. They were found
guilty. Earle was sentenced to two
months' imprisonment and Miss Her
mann to one morfth's imprisonment.
The sentences dated from their arrest,
so they were released almost immedi
ately after the trial.
Mrs. Charles Becker was at Sing
Sing recently to greet her husband,
former Police Lieutenant of New York,
on his release from the prison to be
taken to the Tombs, New York, pend
ing his new trial for complicity In the
celebrated "gunmen" murders. Mrs.
Becker plainly showed the terrible
strain she has been under.
Unusual interest attached to- the re
cent enaction in N6w York of Percy
Mackaye's bird masque, "Sanctuary,"
because Miss Eleanor Wilson, daughter
of the President, took on of the lead-
ng parts, as Ornis, the Bird Spirit.
Tapestry Covers Suggested
for Telephone Booth
Burlap Also Used Wfc Directory
Is 3iot In Harmony With Home
Color Scheme.
NEW YORK, March 14. (Special
Correspondence.) Why does the
telephone company send out its direc
tories in such hideously Inharmonious
covers Is query 999 in the problems
that exasperate folk who delight in
artistic interiors. The present New
York City directory for telephone sub
scribers is a bright pea green in hue.
a color which is screamingly at odds
with every known scheme of harmony
in house decoration. Before this book
subscribers were inflicted with a direc
tory in a raw burnt onion shade which
was possible in rooms furnished in
tones of brown, but absolutely impos
sible In blue, green or dark red In
teriors, the tones most often chosen
for hall and library decoration, and un
doubtedly flaming scarlet will be the
next choice of the powers that be who
have the selecting of the directory
binding.
The only alternative left to the
householder who does not desire the
telephone book to stick out like a
sore thumb against softly toned in
teriors, is to keep the constantly needed
tome shut up in a desk, drawer or
bookcase; and as every masculine mem
ber of the family, after grumblingly
unearthing it, will leave the book just
where he dropped it on ascertaining the
desired telephone number, it is usually
lying about in plain sight to be an eye-
PRICE S3.oO to $2 5'.
THE name "BON TON" or
"ROYAL WORCESTER"
on corsets is your guarahtee
of Quality, Style, Fit -and
Workmanship.
You buy any one of these
famous corsets anywhere with
perfect confidence that you are
buying the BEST. The newest
models for Spring are now on
display in the principal stores.
WORCESTER
CORSETS
PRICE SI to S3
RSETS
FREE HIP-BONE"
This and many other
models are now being,
shown by
YOUR DEALER
Royal Worcester Corset Co., 28 Geary street, san francisco
sore to the lover of- harmony until
painstakingly replaced In its hiding
place. r
A convenient and attractive cover
may be made for the telephone direct
ory by sewing dark colored burlap or
tapestry over pieces of pasteboard, the
offending paper covers of the book be
ing tucked inside envelope straps of
the fabric on the inner sides of the
manufactured cover. A two-Inch strip
of the material, left between the two
stjff boards, will fit over the back of
the book and tapes sewed to the ends
of these strips and fastened within the
book, aout its center, will keep the di
rectory securely within its artistically
colored jacket.. If snap buttons are
sewed to the ends of the tapes, the boek
will close more flatly than If the tapes
are tied in a bowknot
Materials, Conipined, Are Smart.
The Dry Goods Economist says that
while many of tne three-piece cos
tumes are made entirely of one fabric,
the combination of materials is con
sidered very smart. As an example a
taffeta dress with a moire, tunic had
a coat of moire.
Another smart-looking three-piece
costume had the dress and coat of navy
blue gabardine with the tunic and vest
of Roman stripe faille. Occasionally
the waists of the three-piece costumes
are of chiffon, lace or net, but in the
majority of instances at least part of
the waist is made of the same material-
as the skirt.
The styles follow the same general
tendency as those now in vogue, the
short fancy jacket, the tunic, bustle
back or draped skirt and the easst-flt-ting
blouse being the notable features.
AD -Black Tango Frocks
Now Parisian Craze
So Smart Are These Airy Costumes
That They Slake Colored Dress
Look Drab In Comparison.
NEW YORK, March 14. (Special.)
In Paris the all-black tango frock
is the craze. And most of these frocks
are airy In effect' with tunics and frills
of black tulle or net and black tulle
bodices over which a sleeveless bodice
of the frock-material is superimposed.
The airy effect Is further carried out
by a small hat of puffed, heightened
by a tremendously tall, slim feather;
by the sheerest of black stockings and
dainty buttoned boots with the highest
of French heels. So smart and striking
are these airy black dancing frocks
that it is said they make colored cos
tumes look quite garish and provin
cial by contrast.
...
Cheruit is using quarter-inch hems
on her Spring frocks and all the
world is talking about it as though
Cheruit may not dare to use any sort
of hems she pleases on her inimitable
creations; and as though, anyway,
there were any hard and fast rule for
the width of a skirt on tunic hem! The '
consensus of opinion seems -to be, how
ever, that the tiny hems on skirts of
very soft silken stuff give a rather
pleasing effect. A frock of absinthe
green tango' crepe, for example, has
five gathered flounces and all of thet-e
flounces and the narrow skirt have
hems exactly a quarter inch deep. The
skirt is slashed to reveal the buttoned
walking or dancing boot for naturally
a narrow, unslashed skirt with such a
narrow hem would not withstand the
least strain resulting from too long a
step.
...
Just a friendly whisper to the wo
man who weighs over 120: Wear rip
ple tunics! Some of the chic Spring
tallleurs have three ripple tunics on
the skirt and an adoraple little coat
also rippled, mounted coquettishly
above. But alas for the woman with
anything but lath-like outlines who
gets into one of these dapper little
suits. She will cast a shadow like a
laundry bag on Monday morning and
her actual silhouette will not be much
more ethereal than her shadowed one.
Dancing: Dress Is Pleated.
The new type of afternoon dress for
special dancing wear is pleated, either
the entire dress or portions of the
waist and skirt, says the Dry Goods
Economist. For instance, a rroe pleat
ed underskirt may be supplemented
with a bouffant panier and soft blouse
bodice in plain effect. In these models
the pleated skirt begins just above the
knees and is held into the figure by
means of "pull-backs" in the form of
sashes.
In cases where the whole dress is
pleated the underskirt extends to a
whicTi are arranged two or three pleat
ed flounces.. The waist and the sleeves
are also finely pleated. The sleeves
barely reach to the elbow.
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The embroidery pattern shown here
will add charm and attractiveness to
any Spring or- Summer frock.
In the choosing of colors it is' wisest
to adhere to a harmony of shades, as
the results are likely to be more satis
factory if there are no striking con
trasts. This, however, is, after all, a
matter of personal taste.
There are two ways to apply the
design to the material upon which you J
wish to work it. If your material is
sheer, such as lawn, batiste and the
like, the simplest method is to lay the
material over the design and with a
sharply pointed pencil draw over each
line. If your material is heavy secure
a piece of transfer or" impression paper.
Lay it face down upon this, then draw
over each line of the paper design with
a hard pencil or the point of a steel
knitting needle. Upon lifting the
pattern and transfer paper you will
tlnd a neat and accurate outline of the
design upon your material.