University Daily Kansan
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AWS SONGSTERS PERFORM AT PICNIC—Betty Thies, education senior; Freddie Blanks, fine arts sophomore, and Barbara Deal, college sophomore, start off the songfest with a bang at the Associated Women Students indoor picnic Tuesday evening at Robinson Annex—Kansan photo by Phil Newman.
Kimonos Have Several Drawbacks
Washington — (U.P.)— There are a couple of drawbacks to those®
Japanese kimonos.
In the first place, they're hard to put on without help; in the second place you have to ship them clear back to Japan to get them cleaned.
The subject of kimonos came up at lunch with pretty Shizu Moriya (Shef-zoo Mor-ee-ya). She is here helping to plop a picture called "Willie and Joe Back at the Front". The locale of the film is Japan, and Miss Moriya was sort of a technical adviser during the filming.
The brown-eyed Japanese girl, by the way, speaks Japanese with an American accent. She was born in New York City.
But to get back to kimonos. Five yards of material go into the garment.
"It has to be wound and wound around you-12 times," she said.
"Then you have to call for help to pull it tight and tie it in the back so it won't fall off."
The business of getting a kimono cleaned is even more complicated. It has to be ripped apart and mailed to Japan. That takes about four or five weeks. Then it takes 10 days for the cleaning and another four or five weeks to get it back. After that the pieces have to be sewed back together again.
The Nipponese maiden went to Japan with her folks when she was a young girl, and off and on across the years has made a dozen round trips to Tokyo by boat.
She is a graduate of Vassar, one of the youngest students ever to register at that institution. She was only 16.
While there she majored in English and went in heavily for dramatics. On one trip to Japan she had considerable success in films and on the stage.
Gauge Shows Car Troubles
A little gauge that shows up electrical faults in your car before trouble becomes serious has been produced. An arrow swings to various zones on the gauge to indicate short circuits, overheated generator, stuck starter, loose connections on batteries. The gauge can be clamped to the steering column or mounted on the instrument panel.
Thursday, Oct. 16, 1952
Then up came the matter of that American accent.
She tried to explain to the Japanese directors that actresses like Ingrid Bergman, Greta Garbo, and Marlene Dietrich all had foreign accents.
She has no trouble with television or radio in this country. Her English is flawless, with no hint of a Japanese accent.
The exacting Japanese told her that if the Americans liked that sort of thing, it was all right with them. But in Japanese radio and stage work, actresses spoke perfect Japanese, or they kept still.
HAT LEAD — Narrower brims, center-crease hats are predicted to take the "lead" as the number-one style favorite of men all over the country. The particular style is said to be flattering to both
But she is a restless little beauty. When she is in Japan she is lonesome for her native America. And when she's here she is lonesome for her "adopted" country and the folks in Tokyo.
That was that.
Color is the cue to all fashions this fall. The single minded concentration upon basic blacks, greys and brownss has departed. A whole new range of bright and subtle colors, newly mixed and blended, has arrived.
Harvest colors reap high honors everywhere. The whole tawny crop of apricot to pumpkin to rich raisin tones have new zest and tang. They are best when blended and mixed together.
Black-underscored-color is the new news in texture, in pattern, and in weave—adding strength to vivid hues and depth to subdued ones. This blend is often accented by solid black.
Watch for golden greens which have a fashion "go" signal. Yellow casts a golden glow on every green it touches from soft and subtle sage to deep and definite olive.
The near-match look is the news in accessories. This is made possible by a never-before barrage of colored leathers that subtly blend with, but never match, the color of the costume.
Royal blue with black is the coming alliance, sometimes seen as partners in exciting texture, more often as a single sudden flash of color igniting solid black.
Fashion Cues Concern Color
Perfumed plastic yard goods, shower, and window curtains have been developed. Flower scents are built right in — not coated or sprayed on — matching the flower patterns on the plastic film.
Perfumed Material Developed
young and older men.
This Frosty and Icy Warning Concerns Campus Cold Spots
By JOAN LAMBERT KOHMAN
The frost giants are limbering up their wings and rattling their icy spears, so it is time for a word to the unwise, namely the freshmen and new students. There are certain spots on this hill of ours that you should know about. All summer and fall they are spots of great beauty. But oh brother, just wait until winter!
Old students will know what I mean, or have you ever had to climb Fourteenth street hill after a sleet storm?
One of the worst spots to watch for is what is popularly known as Pneumonia Gulch. It is between Lindley and the shelter of Marvin and Snow halls. The wind going through here is no local; it's an express straight from the north pole, and it doesn't stop to laugh at your shivers.
Another chilly spot is at the other end of the campus, Coughin' or Coffin Corner—spell it how you will. This is the stretch between the Union and Campus house. Here you get those icy zephyrys from both directions.
The north wind whistling up Oread avenue meets the west wind as it veers off the campanile, and the two of them always pick Coughin' corner to argue who has the right of way. The loser is the poor student fighting his way through the midst of the turmoll.
We mustn't forget the sinister, shadowy canyon on the west side of Fraser where the sun never*seems to penetrate. The wind zips through the narrow crack between
the hospital and the Old Journalism building freezing the blood of all passers. Veterans of summer school say that even in the blaze of July there is always a breeze back of Fraser.
Fourteenth street hill is legend. Beck in the winter of '49 they had to drop ropes down so the student could pull himself up. It wasn't much better last winter. Getting down is a nerve-racking, leg-breaking sort of fun, but getting up—if you can get up—is worse. At least you can see where you're going when you are facing downhill.
So now you're informed, and to end off this dissertation, the words of that immortal hymn: "To the nights and the days of cold, keeping watch on Mt. Oread's height, came a vision of how we quail, in the wind blowing day and night."
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