SOUTHERN OREGON MINER
Friday, lune 14 1940
Page 3
Apron Dress Is an Intriguing
on the Fashion Program
By CHERIE NICHOLAS
STAGE SCREEN RADIO
By VIKG1NIA VALE
lHeleuted by Westarn Nvw»p.<p«r Union.)
“H
OLLYWOOD was
never like this!”
Jeun Arthur wan talking.
Dressed in faded jeans, a
leaky sombrero and a blouse
that most women would use
for a dusting rag, she stood in
front of the adobe hut which
is her dressing room at Old
Tucson. Old Tucson is just
what it means, a reproduc
tion of the original walled
FOOD FOK TH
FAMILY OK FOR GUEST?
(See Recipes Below)
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It takes little Imagination to
•volve a good meal In summer.
Whether you are planning a menu
for the family or for guests, there's
all the wealth of the world from
which to choose!
There la fresh asparagus and
home-grown berries, new potatoes,
tiny green onions, and all the other
tender green things from the
garden.
Remember that sunshine and
warm weatbrr and foods with zest-
ful flavor go to
gether, and plan
your menus
• round fresh
tasting fruits and
vegetables, for
they have win
ning ways with
jaded appetites. There's the minted
pineapple cup pictured above, that's
a grand first course for a summer
lunch or dinner; It's as refreshing
as a cool breeze off the lake! There
•re fruit salads, too—cool and color
ful as summer gardens; and vegeta
ble plates, which, well arranged,
have appetite-appeal galore. And,
by the way, your calorie-conscious
friends will bless you if you serve
them, when you entertain the club,
these refreshing. Alling, but not too
fattening combinations.
If you're planning a club tea to
bring the social season to a close,
you'll want to read Eleanor
Howe's column next week. She’ll
give you plans and recipes for a
delightful summer tea. Be sure
to watch for this column next
week!
together loosely in ■ bundle and
place upright In saucepan contain
ing the boiling water to which
•alt has been added. Cook, uncov
ered, until ends of stalks begin to
be tender, about 15 minutes; then
lay bunch of asparagus flat in pan
•nd continue cooking until tips are
tender. 5 to 10 minutes, then drain.
Cream butter and add lemon juice
slowly. Pour this mixture over hot
asparagus and serve at once.
Fruit Naiad Dressing.
2 egg yolks
% cup strained honey
Juice of 1 lemon
Dash of salt
1 cup whipping cream
Place egg yolks, honey, lemon
juice snd salt In top of double boiler,
and cook H hour, stirring frequent
ly. Remove from heat, beat with a
Dover egg beater, and cool. Whip
cream and then pour the chilled
Plan your menus around some of honey mixture into the whipped
the fresh and tempting recipes be cream, beating with Dover beater
low. and when you serve a salad or
Baked Eggs In Tomato Cup.
vegetable for the main dish of the
(Serves 5-8)
meal, serve with It some unusual
fl tomatoes
bread, a beverage, and the simplest
Salt
kind of dessert.
Pepper
You'll And tested recipes for un
fl eggs
usual bread and rolls to serve with
Buttered bread crumbs
summer meals, in my cook book,
Soft cheese (grated)
"Better Baking."
Scoop out tomato centers and
June Fruit Appetiser or Dessert.
sprinkle with salt. Place tomatoes
Fresh pineapple
in muffin pans.
Break an egg into
Fresh strawberries
each tomato. Sea
Confectioners' sugar
son, and top with
Cut pineapple in 44-inch slices, un-
buttered crumbs
pecled.
Then cut each slice in
•nd cheese. Bake
wedge-shaped pieces. Wash straw
berries. leaving the stems on them. in a moderate oven (350 degrees)
Chill the fruits thoroughly, then on until tomatoes are tender and eggs
are set.
individual dessert plates arrange
Orange Ice Box Cookies.
the pineapple wedges and the straw
(Makes 5 dozen)
berries, in a ring around the plate.
Place a mound of confectioners'
1 cup shortening
sugar in the center of each plate,
>4 cup brown sugar
■nd serve at once.
*4 cup white sugar
1 egg
Minted Pineapple Gems.
2 tablespoons orange juice
(Serves 4)
1 tablespoon orange rind (grated)
14-ounce
can
pineapple
(spoon
i
244 cups general purpose flour
size chunks)
V« teaspoon salt
4 tablespoons lime juice
V« teaspoon soda
1 teaspoon fresh mint (minced)
V4 cup pecan nut meats (broken)
Arrange pineapple In fruit cock
Cream shortening and add sugars
tail glasses. Combine lime Juice slowly, while beating constantly.
and mint, and pour over the pine Add egg (well-beaten), orange juice
apple. Chill thoroughly before serv- and orange rind. Mix and sift flour,
Ing.
salt and soda together and add to
Hot Weather Vegetable Plate,
the creamed mixture, together with
the broken nut meats Form in rolls
New potatoes browned in butter
in wax paper and chill overnight in
Small whole beets rolled in mint
refrigerator. Slice thin, place on
Spinach with hard cooked eggs
greased baking sheet and bake in
Nutted squash
moderately hot oven (375 degrees)
Green onions.
Parboil small pared potatoes in for 12 to 15 minutes.
Fruit Salad.
salted water, drain and brown in hot
butter. Cook small, whole beets in
Toss together in a salad bowl 1
boiling water un cup watermelon balls, 1 cup canta
til tender. Drain loupe balls, 1 cup honey dew melon
and peel. Add balls, 1 cup pitted red cherries. Add
melted butter. french dressing enough to coat all
Then roll but the fruits, and mix lightly. Serve on
tered beets in Individual plates with two or three
chopped green stalks of well-chilled french endive
mint. Cook spin for garnish.
ach in salted water, drain, and sea
son with salt, pepper and butter.
This Practical Cook Book Costs
Garnish dish with hard cooked egg
Only Ten Cents.
white rings and top with riced egg
When
you
serve a salad or a vege
yolks. Steam small summer squash
table
plate
as
the main dish of your
until tender. Cut in halves, scoop
out centers, and mash. Season with meal, serve with it delicious and un
melted butter, salt and pepper. usual bread or rolls. You’ll find test
Sprinkle chopped nut meats over ed recipes for different biscuits,
muffins and bread in Eleanor
top. Arrange vegetables on Indi-
vidual plates and garnish with a Howe’s inexpensive cook book. Bet
ter Baking. There are recipes for
sprig of parsley.
apricot rolls, blueberry muffins and
Fresh Asparagus With Lemon
honey drop biscuit; and recipes for
Rutter Sauce.
crusty peanut butter bread or data
(4 servings)
and nut bread to complete your
1 small bunches fresh asparagus
salad meals.
(or 1 large bunch)
You'll find recipes for cookies,
• cups boiling water
cakes and pastries, too, and this
1V4 teaspoons salt
practical booklet la only 10 cents.
% cup butter
To get your copy promptly send 10
1 tablespoon lemon juice
cents in coin to "Better Baking,"
Cut off lower parts of asparagus care Eleanor Howe, 910 North Mich
stalks as far down as they will snap. igan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois.
Discard, or use in soup. Tiu stalks (RiltaMd tty Western Newspaper Union.)
city of the sixties, where Wesley
Ruggles is currently Aiming Clar
ence Budington Kelland's "Arizona."
Situated IB miles north of present-
day Tucson, it Is a monument to
movie ingenuity, a village of 125
buildings, re-created by Columbia
studios' technicians from the origi
nal plans of early Tucson.
"Running water is a luxury out
here," Miss Arthur said, wiping the
perspiration from her face. "To
speak of hot water is heresy. There
just isn't any. Not that a tub of wa
ler wouldn’t reach the boiling point
If placed in the sun, but there are
so many horses, cows, dogs and pigs
Out-In Frock With
Bra id Edged Panels
rjON’T you think it's one of the
prettiest ideas for cotton
prints that ever bloomed in the
spring—all set for a summer of
; great popularity? There’s some
thing so perky and young about
8716, with its choice of low-cut or
tailored collar finished with a
icome-hither bow, and panels out
lined in braid, to call attention to
i the supple slimness of your waist!
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’ ’ antly new on
the style program?
The answer is the
dress with a detach
able apron front. Can you Imagine
aprons putting on fashion airs?
Well, that's just what is happening.
It's not only your daytime frocks
that are being smartly aproned but
evening gowns are flaunting the
most gorgeous (either tie-on or sim
JEAN ARTHUR
ulated) apron fronts wild flights of
around here that a tub of water fancy could possibly envision.
wouldn't have a chance to get
Watch and you will see dainty
warm."
black evening sheers glorified with
She has turned her back on glam
cunning apron attachments that are
our these days She is bent only on
embroidered and bespangled most
making "Phoebe Titus," who sold
gorgeously. By the same token sim
pies for a dollar apiece, believable
ple little daytime frocks take on a
•nd real. She is starred in "Ari
dress-up mien in that cunningly de
zona,” with William Holden and
vised lace-frilled or quaintly beruf-
Warren William backing her up. and
fled apron fronts are made to tie on
ahe's going to give us a picture
or take off in a jiffy.
worth seeing and remembering,
And what a boon these fascinating
though the thermometer does regis
new apron dresses are to a limited
ter 126 degrees.
clothes allowance. You can see the
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logic of the argument in an instant
"Waterloo Bridge" is another pic —sans apron front attachment you
ture that yoa’ll remember. Vivian have a simple fouhdation gown that
Leigh proves that. In "Gone With will carry you through trim and
the Wind," she was-no flash in the trig during the "don’t-dress-up”
pan; In fact, she's as good or better hours of the day or evening. Comes
in "Waterloo Rrid«e" as she was in time to "doll-up” a bit for a lunch
that Civil war epic.
eon or tea or the unexpected what
And the picture gives you a new ever the occasion may be, and
Robert Taylor. His little moustache here's where the new apron attach
is tremendously becoming (even ment performs its magic. Tie it on
though his wife, Barbara Stanwyck, and you will be "all dressed up"
said "Thumbs down!" when he and some place to go. And if this
raised a real one). He puts real life isn't economy, thrift and good style
into his role, that of a young Brit all in one what better could fash
ish army officer in the last war.
ion offer, we would like to know,
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than a two-some that can be faith
The movies are doing very well fully utilitarian one moment and
indeed by Arizona these days. Two glamorously festive the next.
hundred and fifty members of the
The attractive frocks pictured pre
cast and crew of Edward Small's sent the theme from both a day and
"Kit Carson” troupe landed in Flag a night viewpoint Consider them
staff the other day; among the ac as merely a forerunner of what "is
tors were Lynn Bari, Jon Hall, yet to be” in way of apron frocks
Dana Andrews. Raymond Hatton, for now that the vogue for the apron
Director George B. Seitz, and many
others whose names are familiar to
movie-goers.
From Flagstaff the entire troupe
well go to the Indian trading post of
Kayente, on the Navajo Indian res
ervation, where a special town has
been built to accommodate the Hol-
tywood folk for their month-long
stay.
Go Military
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The mail response to Johnny
Sunday
evening
Green's
new
"Rhyme-O" program seems to up
set the common belief that writing
poetry is the special province of a
selected few. On this musical audi
ence-participation program. Johnny
uses four-line verses, and asks
teners to send them, $5 going to
writer of each verse used.
In one week Green received
000 individual letters containing
rhymes—and there was an average
of three rhymes in each letter.
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The Andrews Sisters, famous
"swing" trio formerly heard on Co
lumbia Broadcasting company's net
works with Glenn Miller and his or
chestra, have journeyed to Holly
wood; they're broadcasting nightly
from a night club there, and pre
paring to be starred with the Kits
brothers in a Universal picture
called, of all things, “Argentine
Nights"!
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ODDS AND ENDS
H, H hen the sequence of Columbia’s
“Society Girl” called for composition
of a song, musical director Ted Steele
dashed off a few bars, and ever since,
people have been writing in to ask the
name of the composition and where
they can bust it; it’s probably the only
successful four-bar song in history.
Lloyd Nolan scored such a personal
triumph in "Johnny Apollo” that he’s
been given the leading role in 20th
Century-Fox's “I Married a Nasi,” re
placing the be-dimpled Richard Greene,
whose illness caused him to leave the
cast.
dress has been so successfully
launched, designers are all astir de
veloping the wealth of possibilities
offered in this new and fascinating
fashion trend.
Describing the daytime frock
shown to the left in the illustration.
it is made of a red, white and black
polka dot silk print, which has an
interesting border design, as have
so many of the newer prints this
season.
The “off-again-on-again”
apron front is accented with the
wide silk bordering. For momenta
of lesser social importance whisk
the apron front off and you have ■
gown simply and tastefully styled
for the more practical moments of
the day.
Mousseline in a new shade of hi-
minous blue is posed over a taffeta
slip to create the enchanting bouf
fant evening gown pictured to the
right The same flowered lace that
creates the youthful short-sleeved
bolero outlines the trick apron,
which may be removable or not as
you please.
Garden party dresses of organdy
and the new sheer seersucker and
prettily flowered dimities are taking
on these quaint little tie-on aprons
more or less beruflfied with self-fab
ric or with lace and ribbon-run bead
ing in endless variety.
The apron idea invites all sorts
of decorative touches in way of em
broidery beadwork and applique.
Perfectly charming aprons have
hand-painted florals which gives the
amateur artist a chance to do some
very clever things. Another sugges
tion worth trying out is to applique
little ribbon bowknots at strategic
points. Insets of lace butterflies is
another thought rich with possibili
It’s
simple
and
comfortable
enough to wear around the house,
but it’s much, much too pretty to
spend all its time at home. Wear
it to market and for runabout, too.
Make this of plaid or checked
gingham, polka dot percale or
plain - colored chambray, with
bright ric-rac braid. Step-by-step
sew chart comes with your pat
tern.
Pattern No. 8718 is designed for
sizes 12, 14, 16, 18 and 20. Size 14
dress with either neckline, re
quires
yards of 36-inch fabric
without nap; 8 yards ric-rac to
trim; % yard ribbon for bow. Send
order to:
SEWING CIRCLE PATTEEN DEPT.
14S New Montgomery Ave.
San Francisco
-
Calif.
Enclose 15 cents in coins for
Pattern No......................... Size..................
Name ............ ..............................................
Address
FEEL GOOD
ties.
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
Comfortable Wedge
Shoe Now Popular
One reason for the popularity of
wedge shoes is that they present un
usual foot comfort They give excel
lent support to the instep and ankle
and create a firm base for walking
To lighten their somewhat heavy
appearance, many of the new ver
sions are trimmed with scroll cut-
outs.
Some of the best liked styles are
made of elasticized serge or gabar-
dine fabrics. They are usually com
bined with patent leather or kid.
Very light in weight, they cling to
the foot snugly and give it a well-
fitted feeling that is very comfort
able.
Death No Evil
It is impossible that anything so
natural, so necessary, and so uni
versal as death should ever have
been designed as an evil to man
kind.—Swift.
Evening Pinafore
Pinafores are a quaint old fashion
Interpreted in lavish materials for
•labórate new evening gowns.
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JUST A
DASH IN n*TMM
ROOSTS
OR SPREAD ON
Little Hats With
Turned-Up Brims
Go military the American way by
pinning to the lapel of your smart
tailored suit a gadget, as here pic
tured, of a miniature cadet cap like
the real West Pointer.
Marion
Weeber, American artist noted for
her cunning in handling ceramic
jewelry and plastics, designs this
cunning piece. It's enameled and
studded with tiny rhinestones. As
a Atting touch to this most attrac
tive bit of artistry it is made jaunty
with a real feather tuft. Wear this
cunning ornament and you will
create a commotion in your set, for
it is really most unusual and distinc
tive and destined to enjoy a wide
spread vogue during the coming
months. Please to observe that her
straw hat is a la cadet cap in its
jaunty ''lines."
ILL!
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How to Read
Read not to contradict and con-
Little hats with their brims turned fute, nor to believe and take for
up sharply on both sides to give ■ granted, nor to And talk and dis-
tricorne effect are smart accompan course—but to weigh and consid
iments for the fitted coats and dress er.—Bacon.
maker suits of this season.
Effective in its simplicity is one WNU—13
of white linen-weave straw banded
and tied on with a narrow black
ribbon.
Another plain Homburg
type of white pique with a deeply
creased crown and rolled-up brim
is also banded in black ribbon.
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Miserable
with backache?
Tailored Taffeta
Suits Are Popular
Have you seen the stunning new
daytime taffeta suits that have just
recently entered the style parade?
This matter of tailored silk suits
and coats is well worth looking up
for designers are turning out fav •
nating models not only in taffeta, but
in moire, faille and bengaline, both
in navy and black.
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