MAY 16.1946
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
PAGE SEVEN
G.I. Goes Courting In Paris Armed With Double Malts, Banana Splits
(By FREDERICK C. OTHMAN)
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
Paris (UP)—You think, like I used to think, that an American Gl woos a Parisien mademoiselle with cognac and a dish of truffles? Haw! He does a better job of it, and quicker, with a double chocolate malted.
It's the doggoneed thing I ever saw—French cuties being lured into big evenings by American city slickers using pineapple marshmalow sundaes with cherries and whipped cream on top as bait.
Who among the lovelies of Paris wants bubbly water when she can get a genuine double dip strawberry ice cream soda and two straWS that signal with slupping noises her need for a refill? The champagne Charlles have not got a chance
The scene of this gooey debauchery is a genuine American soda fountain known as the Sugar Bowl and operated by the army on Rue Du Havre. It is smack dab against the department store Printemps, where floor walkers wear Prince Alberts and salesgirls hope against hope to be invited next door.
The Sugar Bowl, called also GI Heaven, is a conscious effort by experts in the psychology of home-sickness to drop into the center of Paris a piece of Wichita, Kan., or perhaps Pittsburgh, Pa.
It's all there—a row of gleaming malted swiseroes, a red tank that gushes cokes, jars of chopped nuts, syrup pumps, and—behind piles of banana split dishes on the back bar—a mural depicting the Statue of Liberty. Miss Liberty looks pretty happy and well fed as if she also had just consumed a three-flavor special with pecans and caramel syrup.
An ice cream soda costs 10 francs or about eight cents. A malted for his girl sets back a khaki-clad swain 17 francs. I ordered up a chocolate ice cream soda for myself, and the French waitress, a pert trick with blite eyes and a fluffy apron, said:
"Hokay beeg boy, eets coming up"
She said she spoke no English. Whatever it was she did speak car-
d a Brooklyn accent. I hope this spatch does not sound too spoof-
ly, because it is remarkable how od that soda tasted. I've only seen without sweets now for two weeks, and I crave sugar like De Quincy craved opium. So the Sugar
Bowl not only promotes romance and cements internation relations in rich chocolate sauce, but it provides calories where calories most are needed. That isn't all.
The upstairs, reserved for hardened rounders, is a beer and ice cream parlor. I wish I were young again and had a zinc lined stomach. Then I could follow the custom and drink my beer with my ice cream, alternating sips and bites until the time came to order more beer and ice cream.
The Sugar Bowl's fame has spread so far and the demand for the gooey refreshments has become so wide that numerous enterprising Frechmen have set up their own soda parlors. The poor devils simply have not got the knack or the ingredients
Their ice cream is watery sherbet. They use siphon bottles to make sodas. Their sweetening is saccharine, and their signs "American soda fountain" are downright libelous to an institution I never realized before was so important.
Western Kansas Wheat Shows
Highest Acreage Yields
Manhattaq. (UP) — Western Kansas counties took average-yield-per-acre wheat honors in 1945, Harry Baird, extension district agent at Kansas State College, has reported
The ten high counties in the state in average wheat yield per acre were Stanton, 31.6 bushels; Hamilton, 30.4; Cheyenne, 30.1; Kearny, 28; Wallace, 28; Lane, 25.6; Rawlins, 24.9; Wichita; 24; Grant, 23.7; and Scott, 22.7. The average state yield was 15.5
Hamilton county harvested 128,000 acres for a total production of 3,891,000 bushels. Although 50 counties harvested more acres than Hamilton county, only 12 had a greater total production of wheat. Thomas county was first in total production with 5,600,950 bushels harvested on 252,570 acres, at an average yield of 22.2 ancre.
Ford county's 402,000 acres were the largest number harvested. The average yield was 11.3 bushels and total production 4,543,000 bushels.
Sugar has 70 non-food industrial uses.
Freckles Are 'The Vogue' In Hollywood
Hollywood. (UP) — The new fad in Hollywood is freckles, and Paramount, which has installed a "freckling" department in its makeup salon, bets you'll be applying them soon, too.
If you're born with freckles, makeup artist Wally Westmore says, display them proudly. If you don't have 'em, you can get them from Westmore without even going out in the sun.
Betty Hutton, who has some freckles herself, got the movie stars freckle-conscious when she picked as her favorite photograph a color shot in which all her freckles are prominently shown.
Other freckle-faces started showing them off, among them Paulette Goddard, Veronica Lake, Myrna Loy and Diana Lynn.
Then Westmore installed his freckling department, for the benefit of stars who spend too much time under the kleig lights to get out under the sun.
A technician has received careful training in the highly developed art of applying freckles of all shapes, sizes and shades.
The department came in hand during the filming of the new co-starring picture for Bing Crosby and Barry Fitzgerald — "Welcome Stranger" in which young Wanda Hendrix has an important role.
Miss Hendrix, recently signed by Paramount, has a "peaches and cream" complexion. Not a freckle anywhere, she says.
Her role called for her to portray a typical 12-year-old freckle-faced youngster. As a result, she reports early each morning to Westmore's new freckling department for a liberal application of small, light-toned, early-spring shade freckles.
"I left them on when I went home the first day," she said, "and my mother wanted to know if I played hookey and went to the beach. The good thing about Mr. Westmore's freckles is that you can be sure you'll get them where you want them."
Westmore himself predicts his freckles will take their place along with the upswept hairdo, runproof leg makeup, cakeless powder, painted toenails and artificial eyelashes.
Pike's Peak is named in honor of Zebulon Montgomery Fike, who was unable to complete the ascent of the mountain during a nineteenth century expedition.
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