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Every Woman's a Chorus Girl At Heart, Designer Says
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New York —(U.P.)— Every woman's a chorus girl at heart, says a leading designer. That's why lingerie is getting frother every season.
Helen Hunt Bencker, whose designs are worn by millions, has figured out that women buy fancy
Jane Wyman Tries To Figure Hit Tunes
Hollywood — (U.P.)— Jane Wyman is in the midst of making another musical picture and she's up to her favorite trick of trying to figure out which of the tunes has the best chance of becoming a hit.
Her new picture is a Technicolor comedy tentatively titled "Love Song," which she is making at Columbia with Ray Milland, Aldo Ray and Valerie Bettie. Ned Washington and Lester Lee have written a sextet of tunes for the picture.
"Picking a musical winner is as risky as picking a horse at Santa Anita," she said. "Sometimes there is a considerable difference between a song that is musically worthy and the one that makes a hit in sales and on face boxes."
"From where I stand at the mike, my choice is a blues number, I'm Taking a Slow Burn Over a Fast Man, which has a provocative lyric as well as catchy music," she said. She thinks the score may include at least three hits.
"It's the public that picks hit songs, though, just as it picks motion picture box office smashes," she said. "Professionals have tried to outguess the public for years and not always successfully.
"Of the 17 songs I've recorded commercially, four have turned out to be best sellers" she said.
The four are "Zing a Little Zong."
"It Was Nice While the Money Rolled In," "In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening" and "He's Just Crazy for Me."
The designer, a native of Pittsburgh who started out to be a sculptress, is partly responsible for the creation in lingerie design in recent years.
"They can get by with things in clothes they wear at home they'd never dare try elsewhere," she said.
She was the first to trim a night-gown with mink, she was one of the leaders in the can-can petticoat movement, and the first to use the filimest of tricot fabric for night-wear.
"I want in to watch customer reaction," she said. "You know who was buying those can-can things?" Grev-haired old women, that's who."
"Take a dramatic evening dress," she explained. "A woman can wear it maybe on one occasion. On the other hand, a dramatic nightgown . . . well, it gives her a chance to be glamorous every day."
Miss Bencker, head designer for Laros textiles, recalled the time she put can-can ruffles on some fancy underthings and they were given a big promotion by a New York department store.
underthings because they want to be daring but don't have enough nerve to do it in public.
"To keep the sheerest lingerie modest," she said, "I just used yards and yards of material. It made a floating, cloud-like nightie . . . the women loved it."
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J. O. Maloney, chairman of the chemical engineering department, and Kenneth Rose, chairman of the mining and metallurgy engineering department, attended the annual career day activities at the high school in Bartlesville, Okla., yesterday.
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During career day activities. Dr. Maloney and Prof. Rose will tell the high school students about the advantages of attending the University.
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Stained Glass Record Set
Coventry, England — (U,P)— The biggest order ever given for ecclesiastical stained glass has been placed for the new Coventry Cathedral. Ten great windows in the nave will replace the ones bombed out during World War II. The windows, 70 feet high, will depict man's journey through life.
Richmond, Va. — (U.P.)—A young couple were parked in a car on a downtown street. They were cheek to cheek and unaware of the outside world. Several passersby glanced in their direction and one woman considerably inserted a nickel in the parking meter when the time ran out.
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