ìlulr (Caríi Sonta (ßroro Drrp SEWING CIRCLE PATTERNS H a r m o n iz e th e O d d P ie c e s fo r N u r se r y Broad Shouldered Junior Jumper All-Occasion Frock lor Matrons ’T 'H E R E Is no trick In m atching A up an ill-assorted lot of fu rn i­ ture for the children’s room. The set shown here is typical. An old chiffonier, a cut-down chair, a nondescript bed and an old wash- SMC _ STAGE "SCREEN RADIO R elea sed by W estern N ew sp ap er Union By V IR G IN IA V A L E AMES MASON, who recent­ ly won a national poll as J “England’s most popular mo­ tion picture actor” for the second time, is likely to chalk up similar honors for himself in America. You’ll see him in “ The Man in G ra y ,’ ’ released by U n ive rsa l P ictures — and probably in A m e rican-m ade pictures as w ell, due to th a t tleup between U niver- | V -P A T T E R N stand were painted cream color and then decorated with a gay painting design. This, w ith his Scottie and wooden sw o rd. Is one of h a lf a dozen app ea ling c h ild re n to be painted on d ra w e r fro n ts and panels. A ll you have to do is to tra c e the fig ­ ures. flow ers and ribbons as in d ic a te d on the p a tte rn ; then fo llo w the c o lo r g u id e , fillin g in fla t tones w ith o u t any sh ading. • • • N O T E —P a in tin g P a tte rn 288 w ith la rg e and s m a ll bow knots, flow ers and fig u re s o f m a rc h in g c h ild re n —a ll d iffe re n t. Is 15 cents. Send request d ire c t to : MRS. RCTH W YETH S P E A R S Bedford H ills N ew York D ra w e r 10 Enclose 15 cents fo r P a tte rn No. 288. i 8923 V .-4R F ro c k fo r M a tu re F ig u re JAMES MASON SIMPLE, well-mannered, all­ occasion frock f( r the more m ature figure. Shoulder gather­ ing and waistline darts give full­ ness to the waist the beautifully gored skirt is graceful and flatter­ ing. sal and J. A rth u r Rank of Eng­ land. Leo Spitz and W illia m Goetz M ason’ s known as “ The English H u m p h re y B o g a rt,” w hich gives you an idea of the kind of roles be p la ys; he’s m urdered m any young ladies on the screen, in a va rie ty of ways, but says th a t the way he extinguishes M a rg a re t Lockwood in “ The M an in G ra y ” is the worst o f all. A e I A ttractive Jum per V O U 'L L catch many an admir- * ing glance in this wide-girdled, broad-shouldered jum per especial­ ly designed for the junior crowd. Make it in a soft lightweight wool­ en and add the bow-tied blouse in bright contrasting checks. • P a tte rn 11. I t I t er, takes blouse. P • e e P a tte rn No. 8923 conics In sizes 34 . 38. 38. 40. 42, 44. <0 and 48. Size 38 requires 41g y a rd s of 33 or 39-lnch m a te ria l or ya rd s o f 54’lnch. • No. hX’U) 1 m designed fo r sizes 14 I t I t ind IB S.zc 12. Jum p, P« ya rd s of 54 inch m a te ria l; u ya rd s of 35 or 3U lnch fa b ric . “ Tw o H ours of S tars” (sta rs fro m stage, screen and ra d io ) w ill be broadcast on the afternoon of C h ristm a s Day over the fu ll C olum ­ bia netw ork. The lis t includes Bob Hope, Vera Vague, G inny Sim m s, Jack Benny, A rtu r Rubenstein, A lan ( “ F a ls ta ff") Reed, and m any others, w ith Don Ameche as m as­ te r o f cerem onies. There m ay be a com edy s k it done by fam ous stooges— Vera Vague, J e rry Colon­ na, Reed and Rochester, among oth­ ers; people so clever th e y ’ re stooges no longer. SEW ING CIRCLE PA TTE R N D E F T . 149 New M ontgom ery St. San F rancisco, C alif. E nclose 25 cents In coins fo r each p a ttern desired. P a tte rn No.............................S iz e ............ Nam e ........................................ Address ................. ................................... EXTRA TASTY BREAD! L'' i/E R Y y e a r the C hristm as card custom sends its roots deeper in to A m e ric a n social and fa m ily life . W hat is there about these gay, dec­ o ra tiv e greetings that makes m illio n s o f people co m p ile long lists of frie n d s and re la tive s w ith whom they w ant to share the C h ristm a s s p irit? I t is n 't ancient tra d itio n , because less than e ig h ty years ago there w ere no C h ris t­ m as cards in A m e ric a . The trem endous g ro w th o f th is frie n d ly custom cam e in re la tiv e ly recent years, as m ore and m ore C h ristm a s cards be­ gan to reflect em otional, re a l-life situations, close to people’ s hearts and homes. this active fresh Yeast goes right to work. No waiting—no extra steps! And Fleischmann’s fresh Yeast helps make bread that tastes sweeter, is lighter, finer-textured every time. |f you BAKg AJ HQME_ be sure to BECAUSE IT’S FULL-STRENGTH - i get F leischm ann’s active fresh Yeast with the familiar yellow label. Depend­ able — America’s tim e-tested favorite for more than 70 years. I OOK at the C h ristm a s cards you receive th is year. N otice how m any ' of them are designed to capture som ething o f our fa m ily happiness at C h ristm a s, when we are a ll at home o r th in k in g about those fa r away. The fa m ily scene on the card ir. the center, above, w ill be duplicated C h ris t­ mas m o rn in g in A m e rica n homes everyw here, and since it is so h e a rt­ w a rm in g a scene, we select i t too fo r o u r fa m ily C hristm as cards and, thereby ask a ll our frie n d s to share in it. lli iv / " ’ H R ISTM AS card designers look e ve ryw h e re fo r the tru e -to -life things w hich b rin g the cards we receive rig h t in to the fa m ily circle . We pass o u r v illa g e church every day in the ye a r, but i t never is m ore b e a u tifu l than on C h ristm a s Eve. So the church, too, becomes a C h ristm a s card sym bol. C hurch, home, fa m ily —the things we recognize at once and love a lw a ys—these are w hat m ake a C h ristm a s card. It seems as If everybody’s sing­ ing in “ The Bells of St. M a ry ’s.” The famed boys’ choir, St. Luke’s Choristers of Long Beach, w ill sing. Bing Crosby, naturally, w ill s in g - five numbers, including “ Adeste F i­ delis.*’ And Ingrid Bergman w ill lift her voice in song for the first time on the screen; she’ll do a Swedish folk song. The picture’s a Christmas­ tim e release. H um phrey B ogart and La u re n B a ­ call. who lik e to w ear m a tch in g gray flannel slacks and red flannel sh irts also each w ear a tin y gold w histle —hers on a bracelet, his on his w atch chain. They said th e y’d never take them off fo r any reason. But it w asn't long before she w ent into "C o n fid e n tia l A gent,” and had to take o ff her bracelet— fo r ro m a n tic closeups w ith Charles B oyer! N ice goings-on — G inny Sim m s, who raises prize pigs on her ranch, traded a young p o rke r to D ordthy Lam o u r, in exchange fo r a tu rke y fro m D o ro th y’ s prize stock. In c i­ d e n ta lly, G in n y ’ s going to have a 30-foot c irc u la r staircase constructed e n tire ly o f lu cite in th a t new home she’ s b u ild in g ; i t ’ ll rise fro m the center of a 30 by 40 foot h a ll. I The Twelve Days i Massacre Of Christmas I f P eter P ain I- has you KNOTTED UP WITH M uscle P ain I..W /# Sen-Gay QU/CK • Get this fast, welcome relief from muscular pain and achel Soothing, gently warming Ben-Gay contains up to- 2*/a times more methyl salicylate and menthol—famous pain-relieving agents your doctor knows about—than five other widely offered rub-ins. That’s why it’s so fa s t...s o soothing. Always insist on genuine Ben-Gay t Copyright. 1944, by Tho«. Lecming A Co., Inc. . KT *. B E N - G A Y - T H E ORIGINAL ANALCESIQUE BAUME PAIN A/eofOf DUE ’ TO I R H E U M A T IS M | \ N E U R A L G IA , I AND C O LDS I T H E R E ’ S ALSO M IL D BEN GAY FOR C H IL D R E N “ On the first day of Christmas my true love sent to me A partridge in a pear tree.” A ccording to the tra d itio n a l ca ro l "T h e T w e lve Days of C h ristm a s,” a c e rta in young lady received, fro m her tru e love, a p p ro p ria te g ifts on each day o f the C h ristm a s season. The young man proceeded cau­ tiously. at firs t: a pa rtrid g e, two tu rtle doves, three French hens; not u n til the eighth, nin th and tenth days, did he re a lly plunge into the s p irit, sending: “ Right maids a-niilking, nine ladies dancing, ten lords a-leaping.” E p ip h a n y brought the grand f'naie: “ Twelve pipers piping, eleven drummers drumming, ten lords a-leaping. nine ladies dancing, eight maids a-m ilking, seven swans a-swimming, six geese a-laying, five gold rings, four colly birds, three French hens, two tur­ tle doves, and a partridge in a pear tree.” of the Holy Innocents C hilderm as, on D ecem ber 28. com ­ m em orates the m assacre o f the H oly Innocents It takes conductor N at Novick and pianist Tom Howard J r. more than four hours to arrange and or­ chestrate that weird music you hear on “ It Pays to Be Ignorant” ; noth­ ing is left to chance, every discord­ ant effect is carefully prepared. Charles B oyer says his im ita to rs a re a ll w rong when they present h im as saying to H edy L a m a rr, “ Come wiz me into ze C asbaa-aah," presum ably in H edy’ s screen debut in th is country. M a tte r o f fa ct, in the p ictu re he d id n 't ask her to go anyw here w ith h im . K in g Herod, d ire c tin g the Wise Men to Bethlehem , askea them to re tu rn to h im a fte r they had found the H oly C hild. When the M a g i, hav­ ing been w arned in a dre a m , de­ p a rted fro m Judea w ith o u t re v is it­ ing Herod, the K in g considered h im ­ M a rlin H urt, sta r of the Sunday self to have been m ocked and, in CBS "B e u la h ” p ro g ra m , would anger, ordered th a t a ll the boys in hgve gone rig h t on trip lin g fo r h im ­ B ethlehem under tw o years old self i f he hadn’ t been talked in to ac­ cepting c re d it on the a ir. I t was should be put to death. G reek litu rg y sets the num ber of P roducer Helen M ack who talked ch ild re n slain at 14,000; the S yr­ h im in to acknow ledging th a t he's 'B e u la h ." h im se lf and “ B ill. ” ians e stim ate 64,000 were m urdered, and m e d ie va l lite ra tu re reports D ire c to r F ra n k Borzage ordered 144,000; m odern w rite rs have re ­ Maureen O’ H ara to h it B innie duced the estim ates to coincide w ith p o ssib ilitie s and one author, basing Barnes hard, re a lly hard, fo r a scene in “ The Spanish M a in ." M a u r­ his co n je ctu re upon the fa ct th a t een did, again and again— 11 tim es. B ethlehem was a sm a ll town, says The la st tim e B innie. stunned, the to ta l nu m b e r p robably did not landed in a blazing fire p la ce ; th a t’ s exceed 10 o r 12. the shot yo u ’ ll see. M an y S u p erstition s N orth B erries B est M istle to e was connected w ith m any superstitions of the ancient G erm ans and the B ritis h D ruids. The custom of kissing under the m is ­ tletoe nt C hristm as is probably traceable to the high esteem in w hich the pla n t was held by the an­ cients. Legend has it that m istletoe was considered a rem edy fo r epilepsy and convulsions, but the plant seems to hnve no nW'dical properties, de­ spite Its present use in B ritta n y . T here is an in sig n ifica n t m em ber o f the m istle to e fa m ily w hich lives in the n o rth and uses the spruce tree as a host. I t is ve ry sm a ll and a d u ll brow n in color. The m istletoe used fo r C h ristm a s decorations grow s no fa rth e r north than New Jersey and P ennsylvania. In B ritta n y the m istletoe is s till called “ herbe de la c ro ix " and its b e rrie s are crushed and strained in to o il and taken as a cure fo r fe ve r and fo r im p a rtin g vig o r. O D D S A N D E N D S - M a rg a re t O'Brien's pretty pleased about being chosen queen of Mexico's float in Pasa­ dena's Tournament of Roses. . . . Those hnh pre-wor days have definitely re turned to H ollywood; 20th Century-Fox will spend 1200,000 on settings foi "Anna and the King of Siam." . . . Alan l.add's squabble with Paramount brought him a raise— $75,000 a picture for seven years, with the price going up alter three years. . . . John ]. Anthony's thousands of listeners will increase in number, now thut his program goes out over the full Mutual network......... Ilan Mowbray wrote a story, sold it to Mono gram, and will star in it. N a m e- A d d ress- ‘Juicv F leet’ The U. S. navy has a fleet of ves­ sels that sail about reclaim ing oil that scums the w ater’s surface, thereby elim inating a dangerous fire hazard. This salvaged “ black gold’’ is used for oiling roadw ays and in power plants at naval bases. 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