Woman’s World

Thames Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 17678, 31 August 1929, Page 2

Woman’s World

A charming model in wool georgette in fa light tone of grey. It had darker toned scalloped panels at the back and on the cuffs and collar, and these panels wer e embroidered in blue.

VANITY STREET

T should he very much surprised if you liked the hat worn by the lady sketched here, but it came automatically into the scheme of things and evidently the artist didn t dislike it a . s much as I do, otherwise she would have substituted anything ior it. However let us turn tc a more, pleasant subject +;lian this - inverted nud-ding-basin. The charming coat which justifies the sketch was a model made of wood georgette, hut I am assured that it would look equally well in satin. Grey was its colour, and it had darker toned scalloped panels on the back of the coat, cuffs and collar, embroidered with dull blue. 1 want you to note the attractive', and graceful fluted effect of the skirt part of the coat, also the inverted hell-shaned cuffs which are now so popular. They, are particularly smart and give an air to an otherwise quite ordinary wrap. Talking of wraps, I have just seen another very cute wav of giving them a-distinctive air. and that is to have a soft fur collar on a satin one, the collar ending at the neck on one side, hut running right down as a revere on the other. It sounds quite simple and looks quit? elaborate, for some peculiar reason or.other: I suppose it is just the contrast between the plain and furred side, and th« rather distinctive line it gives. And now we rune to a. really nice hat! It has a picture all to itself, as von will see and i<; in Bengal'straw in a perfectly lovely shade of coral. Under the brim in a. most effective- fashion it has » hunch of fiat silk and velvet flowers in varying tones of pink, edged with gold, and the hat itself is hound with coral ribbon velvet. Naturally you would take aare with a. hat of this nature to snit your complexion ; but you will see how oharming it can look, with its ante little bend at the rear of +bn brim which brings it round scftlv over the face: and while on the subject I feel T might recommend a modification of the size of the bunch of flowers unless the lint is na ticularly- gala and wearer particularly young! Talking of gala lints, there is something in the nature of a revival at the moment in the wav of ribbon slotted through tlie brim and trailing

down ever the shoulder; hut this wants adopting with extreme care and caution, and 1 don’t recommend it for anyone past the flapper stage. I saw s; .no social welfare films not long ago in the course of business, and I was than amused to see that all the Indies who woro starting to go down i!u,. flowery but fatal path woro hats with hanging linbcns. T don’t know whether it was a case of cause or effect ; but I will not take up your time on the subject.

TRY THIS!

Raspberries and strawberries are very much with us at the moment, and, as you may have 1 noticed, you always get the reflex action of whatever is absorbing me at the moment. !u this case, however, it is not what is absorbing me. hut what 1 am absorbing, for every night I find strawberries on the dinner-table, accompanied bv the inevitable lemark that they really will he' the last, so 1 am to make the most of them. To' make the most of strawberries in another sense,, also to- utilise bottled one’s; if necessary, there is a most delectable Strawberry Gateau. You require for. its manufacture a round sponge cake about a pound in weight, cut into slices of about half an inch thick. Put these pieces into a glass dish and scale them with hot strawberries and juice (a pound of fruit • having been toiled with the necessary amount of sugar, according to taste-), and allow to become thoroughly cold. Sweeten half a pint of cream, whip it thickly; pile the cake together again, and covJer with the cream. Thisj dish can also he made very deliciously with raspberries and currants. Gooseberries. however, are not such a success — as I know to m.y cost! While on‘the subject of sweets, I might as well tell" you about a little cream I have I just encountered —a very nice one. You I w'-nt an ounce of gelatine, an ounce I of citron, an ounce of lemon peel, two. I ounces of preserved cherries, two tablespoonsfid of sifted sugar, a pint of cream and—if you are really going to get tlie right result—half a wineHassUil of brandy. Soak the gelatine in a little milk for an hour, then pour on half the cream very hot and stir well. And all the other ingredients by degrees; put into a mould and ice. j This is for special occasions, and, if | made rioprectly, will be much appreciated. T t isn’t half such a mixture as it sounds!

An attractive hat in coral Bengal straw. Under the brim there is a bunch of flat silk and velvet flowers in varying tones of pink, and the hat itself is bound with coral ribbon velvet.

IS THAT SO ?

We seem to have been getting any amount of new plays lately, and one l.y a woman—Mrs. Molly MarshallHoJe—entitled “Water”. seems, in stage parlance, to have got away. I met Mrs. Marshall-Hole when her cast was being photographed prion- to % the production on the following day, and she was running round the theatre with her hat and coat off. supervising things in general. I told her she was an exceedingly privileged firsteplay a-uthor, for as a rule they are expected by the producers to emulate the nur-s'-ry rule and b~ “seen and not beard.” Mm. Marshall-Hole, however, though' small, did not look the type of woman who would he obliterated by the flash of a producer’s eye, or the lash of his tongue. Her play deals with

same complication about rivers, water and reservoirs in the Manchester district, and its success shows she knows her subject. All the critics seem pleased about tlie change from cocktails to water! Then there is “Tlie Stranger Within” at tlie Garrick Theatre, and I will run the risk of overlapping your dramatic critic to speak exclusively as a woman and say that I think the performance given therein bv Mis s Olga Lindo is one of the most touching and beautiful I have ever seen in the course of some fifteen

years’ theatre-going. Whv thev haven’t gone “all out” about her I cannot imagine; except that perhaps she is not < yet in the “charmed circle”—to the existence of which, by the way, some of us often think we owe so many theatrical catastrophic®! And then j;here is a play of love and squabbles in which Mr. Robert Lorraine has made a return,.. Somehow or other we do not see enough of ths fine actor, and he hasn’t been too lucky since the days of his famous “Cyrano” of the long nose. He has a very lovely wife, and as I beilieve I told you—the daughter of Sir Thomas Strangman, A w time Advocate-General of Bombay.

THE STREET OF ADVENTURE.

And, speaking of Bombay brings me to a new book called “Relations and Complications” (Bodley Head), being the recollections of H.H. the Dayang Muda of Sarawak, who is the wife of the Tuan Muda, heir to the Rajah of Sarawak. Like her sister-in-law, theRanee of Sarawak, the Dayang is an l Englishwoman. As the daughter of j Sir Walter Palmer she was brought up j in luxurious and stimulating surroundings, for she had a mother (whose beauty she stresses on nearly every page; a little unfortunately, I th-nk), who cultivated such people as Georgo Meredith, Oscar Wilde at the height j of his literary fame, Kubelik. Ellen Terry, and other celebrities who* gave a touch of magic to the Dayang’s childhood. En passant, she —the Day- j ang—admits to having a new little | grandchild; and at the same time we ! learn -that her own beautiful mother had for a playmate our famous beauty, Lady Diana Manners. Is this why these recollections have been characterised as “indiscreet?” I have not finished them yet; but they strike me a: being worth your while!