Harper’s Bazaar May 1951 Page 140

Fantasy for Sale by Sarah Tomerlin Lee
· All the sorcerers, wizards, stargazers, magicians and plain and fancy witches of old could not offer the enchantments that a maiden today can buy for herself ("at her favorite drug or department store"). For instance:
She can wear a coronet of hair for midsummer night balls by simply sending in one lock of hair to Joseph Fleischer, 724 Fifth Avenue, who can match every head in the world.
She can turn her lips rosy as a rose and have them taste like fresh mint with Harriet Hubbard Ayer's delicious Mint Rose lipstick. $1.25, * at Stern. Or she can have them the color and the flavor of a ripe red apple with Milkmaid's Candy Apple lipstick $1,* at Altman.
Her nails can twinkle with shimmering pink stars set in polish with a Chen Yu Jewel Manicure. $1.50, at the Hudnut Salon (or she can buy the ingredients from Chen Yu).
She can confound her public with two luminous veils-one, Charles of the Ritz' "Liquid Veil," $3 *; the other, an airy mask of tulle which matches the complexion exactly, $1.95, at Lord and Taylor. On her travels she can wash her face with a large pink fragrant cloth, which before she put it in the basin was no bigger than a marshmallow. Schiaparelli's Bath Sponge, 10 for $1.75. Saks Fifth Avenue.
She can turn her skin to velvet with Marie Earle's magical Petalinn, a lotion with a very secret ingredient. 2 ounces, $1.75,* at Bloomingdale.
She can have a lovely flowered flowerpot, a May queen's proper accessory, filled to its leafy top with delights. . . cologne-liquid and solid (twentieth-century magic), talc, dusting powder and sachet, all in Lucien Lelong's halcyon "Spring and Summer" fragrance. All for $7.50, * at Altman.
She can wear the spirit of fresh English violets (long after violets have had their day) and eat them as well. Shelley Marks's true and touching Violet Flower Water. $3.75, * and Candied Violets, $1.50, at Lord and Taylor.
DRAWINGS BY MARGARET GRAHAM 
*PLUS FEDERAL TAX 

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KODACHROME BY KAREN RADKAI

Harper’s JUNIOR BAZAAR May 1951

Photos by PAUL RADKAI

Junior Bazaar's Summer Separates

May is the month when summer plans get under way, travel folders are opened up, and country places; convertible tops come down, and seaside towns come to life; and the stores are full of clothes for the gay, lazy season ahead. The clothes shown on these and the following six pages were photographed on St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands which with its new Virgin Isle Hotel is a divine spot to put down on your vacation itinerary.
All Junior Bazaar fashions, in junior sizes unless otherwise stated. . Kodachrome, by Paul Radkai.

Junior Bazaar in Nassau, 
above: Our model wears sheer cotton in a melon-colored plaid, a coat that can be belted and worn as a dress, about $23.00; a sleeveless bodice, about $8.00; a skirt, about $13.00. By Sportwhirl, in Tebilized Hope Skillman fabric. B. Altman; Hudson's, Joseph Magnin; Marshall Field's. Calderon belt. Coro bracelet. 

KODACHROME BY KAREN RADKAI

·Opposite: In a cool shadowy silk organ die print, a decollete dress and the airiest of jackets. By Anne Fogarty, in Jacob Rohner fabric. About $70.00. 

Lord and Taylor; Frost Brothers, San Antonio; Halle Brothers. Eisenberg earrings. Wear-Right gloves.  

Next

 Away for the Summer

· On this page: Two graceful young dresses by the French designer, Alwynn, adapted by Craig Casuals, in Galey and Lord cottons. Above, right: white pique cuffed with red and white corded cotton, with a corded cotton panel falling among the folds of the skirt. Right: a bodice and a triangular stole of red and black striped cotton and a full black skirt. Midtown belt. Each dress, about $25.00. 

Lord and Taylor; Julius Garfinckel; Kaufmann's. 

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In fashion Out of Doors
Photos by PAUL RADKAI
· Opposite: Visiting a native basket worker, our model in a three-piece suspender dress
a big navy blue skirt with a navy blue and white striped hemline, with a halter buttoned on at its waist, $17.95.
The strapless bodice under the halter, $7.95. 

Harper's Junior Bazaar for May or Next

 · Opposite: Bullfighter pants in black and white striped cotton, wrapped at the waist with a bright red sash, $I0.95. A loose cool white cotton shirt, $8.95. Capezio mules. 

· All designs, by Alwynn, adapted by Loomtogs; the striped cottons are by Galey and Lord. At Lord and Taylor.
· All the native straw bags and hats shown in Junior Bazaar, from the Virgin Island Cooperative.

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Dressmaker Denims
Photos by PAUL RADKAI
· A far cry from the old denim sun dress, the denims of 1951-very cool and up-to-the-minute in cut and lovely in detail. Opposite left: Cone's Roman, striped denim, yoked and shirred like a nightshirt By Lotte of Drewyn. About $13.00. Bonwit Teller; I. Magnin. Sally Greene belt 

Harper's Junior Bazzar for May or Next

· Opposite, right: Denim tailored for town, a gray and white striped sleeveless sheath topped with a stiff little gray bolero. By Joanne, Jr. The simulated pearl bracelet, by La Tausca.
· Below Right: Erwin's soft, cool, gray denim in a halter dress with yards and yards of skirt By J .L.F. Originals. With a matching coat (not shown), about $50.00. DePinna; Julius Garfinckel; I. Magnin. Calderon belt. Criterion bag. Coro bracelet

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Wherever You May Roam 

Photos by PAUL RADKAI

. . . separates make a fine showing.

· Opposite: An olive green skirt with a pimento red belt, about $11.00. A paler green top, about $8.00. By Lillian Abbott, in Tebilized Irish linen. Lord and Taylor; Jays, Boston; Julius Garfinckel. The leopard canvas shopping bag, $9.95, plus tax. By Sloat and Klein. De Pinna.

Harper's Junior Bazzar for May

 · Opposite: in Stoffel's pink and white striped chambray, a skirt, about $12.00; and a halter bodice, about $7.00. By Chee Armstrong. Bonwit Teller; Julius Garfinckel; Scruggs Vandervoort. Criterion belt. The umbrella, by General Umbrella.

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Continued on page 174

THIS IS A SMORGASBORD -a unique approach to easy, informal entertaining. The Swedes, with admirable good sense, arrange their traditional buffet fare on the table in three sections, eating through from herring to meat balls in the sequence that centuries of experience have proved most enjoyable. This gastronomic convention, a great convenience if your American guests will play Swedish, is the opposite of the American approach to a groaning board. In the Swedish system each guest uses only one plate and one set of utensils throughout. The sterling silver shown above is Towle's serene new "Contour" pattern. As for what home economists call food presentation, a well-dressed  smorgasbord should look as it tastes, eminently edible and dewy-fresh; decked with a discreet hand; each detail as neatly ordered to the eye as a magic realist painting; each morsel a clean, clear, distinctive taste to the tongue.
The First Course consists of a variety of herring, hot dilled potatoes, cheese, bread, butter, the whole washed down with little glasses of ice-cold aquavit. The most attractive way to serve the herring is in ranks of opened cans, each provided with a small fork. You might have a choice of:
Sill en Dill (herring done in dill)
Sill en Vin-Sas (herring in wine sauce)
Inlagd Sill (pickled herring)
Bockling (sardines)
Ansjovis
Served near to the cheese board are butter, Swedish crispbread, whole grain rye bread or pumpernickel and paler, delicate, slightly sweet Limpa. The cheeses are cheddarlike Bund Ost, cumin flavored Cumin Ost, and brown, honeyed Norwegian Gjetost.
The Second Course consists of the cold meat and fish dishes and salads. Included here are cold ham, lingon-berries, salami, smoked eel, smoked salmon wreathed in dill, cold shrimp cooked in the shell with dill and black peppercorns, cucumber salad, liver pate, jellied veal loaf, beet and herring salad, vegtable salad, headcheese. This section of the meal can be indefinitely elaborated, one thinks of the marbled mosaics, the jellied delights, the baronial roasts that are specialties on the Swedish American Line. The course is often accompanied by more little glasses of aquavit and always by beer, we show Piel’s beer here.
The Third Course of the Smorgasbord consists of hot dishes brought in at the last moment or kept hot on chafing dishes or table stoves. There are usually only two or three of these hot satisfactions, the best of all. I think, is Swedish meat balls in brown nutmeg sauce, if served the hottest. Then there are melting, enormous, typical Swedish brown beans, so unlike the New England baked variety. If you are ambitious, you may produce a traditional Swedish omelette or a cheese custard. My third favorite hot dish is a Swedish plat (small fish fillets rolled around anchovies) called Strommings-glada. It should be done with the itinerant and special herring that swim fashionably in summer from Stockholm to Salsjobanden. It can be done instead with fresh U.S.A. sardines or smelts, the result is delectable.
This is, indeed, a meal. It needs only the best, strongest coffee as a closer. But you may add a dessert such as a dish of mixed cut-up fruit or a Danish or Swedish apple cake (Swedish Kondis in New York bakes these).
Further Notes: Swedish Foods Inc.. 125 Broad Street, New York City, is the finn that supplied most of the fortyfour items that composed the wonderful smorgasbord served before the Swedish dinner given this winter by the Wine and Food Society of Baltimore. This firm also puts up small smorgasbord boxes in various sizes for cocktail snacks or whole dinners. The recipe for Stromming referred to above, as well as dozens of other easy, delicious Swedish dishes, are described and illustrated in a slim, charming volume that is the best translated work to date on the subject. It is called Swedish Food, is published by Esseltes Goteborgsindustrier, A.B., and is available at either Bellows and Company or Bonniers.
The table is laid buffet-style with Towle sterling silver. From Bonniers come the wooden trays, crystal aquavit and beer glasses, the various pottery. china or glass platters and bowls, the typically Nordic birchwood plates and servers. The salt and pepper mills and the shining, ovenproof, copper casseroles are sold at the Gourmet's Bazaar of Bellows and Company, as is the attractive copper table stove with brass lobster legs, at the extreme right of the picture. With the exception of the ready-cooked Virginia half-ham from Bellows, all the food was prepared by Nyborg and Nelson, an old-style Swedish food shop at 841 Third Avenue, New York City.  -----Mary Frost Mabon

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Fashion Academy Award for '51  POLAROD* Sun Glasses you look so much smarter, you see so muck more.

To glamorize your sunlit hours, fantasy combines with function in the new AO Polaroid Sun Glasses for '51. Never before have these important accessories been so fashion-right, so flattering to wear and withal so kind to your eyes.

Smart new shapes and shades let you choose a gay and exciting sun glass "wardrobe" for every activity under the sun.

American Optical COMPANY

Photos taken at same time, one with ordinary, one with Polaroid* lens.

don't let “glare-veil" cheat your eyes....

With ordinary sun glasses or the naked eye you can't see through the dazzling "Glare Veil" caused by reflected sunlight. It cheats your eyes.

AO POLAROID Sun Glasses filter out the "Glare Veil" that cheats your eyes, now you see so much more, because every detail stands out!

* ® Polaroid, Corp.

Fashionable to slip a colorful scarf through the slotted temples of this smart new visor model. It comes in red, green, sand or brown. Above, style No. 74 - $1.49. Other models to $2.98

all with curved plastic Polaroid lenses, shatterproof and featherlight.

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You’ve got the world by the wheel in the

'51 FORD VICTORIA!

Help yourself to the open road and as far as the eye can see in any direction! Ford's new Victoria gives you the "wide-openness" of a convertible and the comfort of a trim sedan!
You get power to match the "let's go" look of the Ford Victoria, the famous 100-h.p. V-8 engine and your pick of Conventional Drive, Overdrive* or the new Fordomatic Drive*. With any of them, Ford's Automatic Mileage Maker delivers high compression performance on regular gasoline!
Take your pick of a wide variety of smart solid or two-tone body colors! And the Victoria's "Luxury Lounge" Interior features long-wearing Craftcord-Ieather-vinyl upholstery combinations, luxurious modern trim and a new "Safety-Glow" Control Panel, all keyed to outside colors!
Relax as you ride! Ford's Automatic Ride Control smooths out the bumps before they can reach you. The Automatic Posture Control front seat insures the most comfortable driving position. What's more, you have the assurance of Ford's Luxury Lifeguard Body with a solid steel top, and Ford's rigid double-drop box-section frame with five husky cross members!
You're set for the years ahead, with 43 "Look Ahead" features from Key-Turn Starting to extra-big "Tell-Tale" Rear Lights and "Double-Seal" King-Size Brakes! See the '51 Ford Victoria, "Test Drive" it, today at your Ford Dealer's.

You can pay more but you can’t buy better!

*Overdrive, Fordomatic Drive and white sidewall tires (if available) optional at extra cost. Equipment, accessories and trim subject to change without notice.

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YOUNG AND PRETTY
Photo by PAUL RADKAI
Three for summer in junior sizes,
· Above: White embroidered Fisba organdie, with bow-tied shoulder straps,and a pink cotton satin belt and jacket. By Daryl. $35.00. D. H. Holmes.
· Below, right: A blue cotton camisole, $3.98, and a skirt in Hope Skillman's blue chambray with a shiny white overplaid, $7.95. By Jo Collins, Filene's.
· Below, left: A coat dress in Ameritex's cool, fruit-colored plaid cotton. By Mary Muffet. $22.95. At Bloomingdale. 
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ARPEGE MY SIN by LANVIN
the best Paris has to offer
Bottled and packaged in France

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The Bondo in block, blue, or rust brushed coif. Also in town brown or block polished calf.
The Bo-peep in green, red, or turf tan polished calf. Also in coif-trimmed block suede.
Tisshoes
the lightest shoes ever to float In your direction 
So supple two fingers can bend them in two.
P. SMITH SHOE CO.
Chicago 22, Illinois
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STARS ON RECORDS
Photos by MAURCE TABARD
· Mary Martin has revived the scores of three classics of the thirties, Anything Goes, The Bandwagon and Babes in Arms, for Columbia Records. Miss Martin's heart belonged to Daddy in 1939 in Leave It to Me, her first big hit on the big time. She was not among those present when the three recorded scores were played on Broadway, but she treats them with easy familiarity and winning exuberance.
· Simultaneously with the publication of Star Quality, his remarkably diversified collection of short stories, Noel Coward, below, recorded Saint-Saens’s Carnival of the Animals suite with Andre Kostelanetz. His super-British enunciation ornaments the verses written for the occasion by Ogden Nash; "The kangaroo can jump incredible. He has to jump because he's edible. I could not eat a kangaroo, but many fine Australians do. Those with cookbooks as well as boomerangs, prefer him in tasty kangaroomerangs."

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Everybody under the sun tans prettily with Elizabeth Arden's Sun Preparations

This year, it's the bisque look, creamy beige, lightly kissed by the sun. You tan gently, if at all. Elizabeth Arden, wise in the ways of skin beauty, gives you the perfect formula for 1951 understatement in the sun, fragrant protective oils and creams that save your face. In other words, guard your beauty!
ARDENA SUNPRUF CREAM vanishes on your skin leaving only its fragrance and an invisible filter against the sun's rays. For those wishing to keep creamy fair. Tube, $1.25.
ARDENA SUNTAN OIL lets the sun through for an even smooth tan. BUT keeps your skin supple, soft, never leathery. Cafe or honey color, $1.00, $1.65 (plastic bottle).
ARDENA SUN GELEE combines protection plus a gentle stimulus for tanning. Keeps skin soft moist, shiny. Cafe and honey color. Tube, $1.00 and $1.50.
ARDENA EIGHT HOUR CREAM smooths and cools skin and lips after unwise exposure. Excellent .for brittle sun-dried hair and scalp, $1.25, $2.00. All prices plus taxes
Elizabeth Arden NEW YORK · LONDON · PARIS 

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Firmament 

A GUNDERSEN creation for the connoisseur - made entirely by hand, in clearest crystal . 12’’high

GUNDERSEN MASTERPIECES are the highest achievement in the glassblower's art. They are unsurpassed for pure, transparent brilliance. Offered only by the finest merchants. Gundersen Glass Works, Inc., New Bedford, Massachusetts.

Gundersen Masterpieces

Available only through the following Members of

The Gundersen Guild

Akron. O.-- A. Polsky Co.

Albany. N. Y.-- Van Heusen-Charles Co.

Boston, Mass.-- Shreve, Crump and Low Co.

Brockton, Mass.--The Lustre House

Canton, O.-- Stern & Mann Co.

Charleston, S. C.-- W. P. Cart Go.

Charlotte, N. C.-- W. I. Van Ness & Co.

Chicago, Ill.-- Findlay Galleries

Chicago, Ill.--Tatman. Inc.

Cincinnati O.-- Frank Herschede Co.

Cleveland, O.-- Cowell & Hubbard Co.

Columbia, S. C.-- Sylvan Bros.

Detroit, Mich.-- J. L. Hudson Co.

Hartford,Conn.--  Philip H. Stevens Co.

Kennebunk, Me.-- The Blue Wave

Manchester,--  N. H. Lemay's Jewelry .

Moultrie. Ga.-- Brantley Jewelry Co.

New Bedford, Mass.-- C. F. Wing Co.

New York City-- B. Altman & Co.

New York City-- Black Starr & Gorham

New York City-- Tiffany & Co.

Phila., Pa.-- Bailey, Banks & Biddle Co.

Phila., Pa.-- J. E. Caldwell and Co.

Pittsburgh, Pa.-- Jos. Horne & Co.

Pittsfield Mass.-- England Bros.

Portland, Me.-- Carter Bros. Co.

Providence, R.I.-- Tilden·Thurber Corp.

San Francisco, Cal.-- Shreve & Co.

St. Louis, Mo.-- Mermod-Jaccard & King

Troy. N. Y.-- Sim & Co.

Washington, D. C.-- Martin's

Youngstown. O.--  Pugh Bros. Jewelry

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 Strangers’ House
continued on page 158

The Gift you’re hunting is here! X
X HERE! No wonder the Seth Thomas* Poise wins electric alarm clock popularity polls! Go-with-everything mahogany case, bright metal trim. Wake up to this honey for your money at $17.50.+
X HERE! Early American charm! Cased in satin-finish mahogany, decorations in famed "Spool and Scroll" design. Haven't you always wanted an electric banjo clock like the Homestead? $32.50.+
X HERE! For the newest young family, you know! The Kenbury is right for big house, apartment or cozy room. Mahogany case, electric or keywound. Westminster Chime movement. $47.50.+
X HERE! To match modern moods, the electric Dynaire is designed in simple, beautiful lines. Attractive blond or rich brown mahogany finish on hardwoods. Easy-to-read dial. $19.95.+
X HERE! The Colonial clock you've always wanted to give or get! The Sharon strikes hours and half hours, is yours in mahogany or maple finish on birch, electric or keywound. $45.00.+
X HERE! 

Best gay and cheerful wall clock you'll ever find, the apple of your eye, the Pippin!

Red, green, and yellow clocks with green leaves at top; ivory clock has ivory-colored leaves. It's electric. $6.95.+ 
For folder illustrating other Seth Thomas Clocks, 

write Dept. C-2, Thomaston, Conn. 

*Reg. U. S. Pat. Off.
+Prices subject to change, tax extra.
SETH THOMAS 
The finest name in clocks

ELECTRIC AND KEY WOUND

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To Turn Your Head,

Photo by PETER BASCH

a coiffure by L. Nicholas whose salon at 38 East 57th Street is one of the newest and most attractive in the city, Grecian decor (complete with tinkling fountain), FM music, air conditioning and highly skilled hands to shampoo, shape, curl and color your hair.
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CHOOSE YOUR GIFTS

THE lighter WAY

PAGODA. . . Strikingly styled in an oriental motif. Four golden ash trays, ebony stand. Gold finish lighter with Lucite body in ebony, orient red or jade green. Charming black and gold gift box. The lighter - $14.95. Complete set - $17.50. No Fed. Tax.

HERITAGE . . . Here is the most popular table-lighter ensemble in America. Ebony handle makes it easy 'to serve a light.' In rhodium, copper or brass - $13.95. With matching cigarette urn and companion tray - $27.50. No Fed. Tax.

WIND-PROOF... For the outdoor type, the Wind-Proof lighter with amazing new year,long flint, gives 13,000 more lights per flint than any other lighter, a whole year's supply. Built-in windscreen for outdoor service in any weather Only $8.95. No Fed. Tax.

When you start to shop for those June gifts, you'll like ASR Ascot lighters at first glance. And, people on your list just naturally take to them. They're beautiful lighters, whose appearance makes friends so quickly and whose faithful service holds them for a long, long time.

Remember, there is an ASR Ascot lighter to suit your every gift need, and don’t forget to get one for yourself

ASR Ascot lighters

PRECISION ASR PRODUCTS

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A Peggy Sage Appointment in Paris-

Photo by GENE FENN

A delightful shop on the Place Vendome devoted to turning out beautifully manicured and pedicured extremities. Specialties: Thirty shades of polish, all keyed to current fashion, including white, green, sapphire, bronze and gold. The faultless gray alpaca suit is by Jean Desses 

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Chose Royally

The choice of discriminating women for more than a century. Royal Doulton is passed from mother to daughter with heirloom jewels and family silver. Traditionally, Royal Doulton is the royalty of fine English china. 

Chose Royal Doulton 

PICARDY BONE CHINA $18.00 

LADY CHARMIAN $45.00  

BLITHE MORNING $37.50 

LOWESTOFT BOUQUET DINNER WARE $7.25

HAMPSHIRE DINNER WARE $7.25  

BABIE $13.50

*Prices cover 5-pc. place setting; dinner, salad, bread and butter plates, teacup and saucer. 

Write for name of your nearest dealer. Send 10¢ each for illustrated china and figurine booklet, 25¢. 

TRADE MARK AND COPYRIGHTS REG. U. S. PAT. OFF. DOULTON & COMPANY, INC. DEPT. C-1, 11 EAST 26th STREET, NEW YORK 10, N. Y. 

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Keepsake

DIAMOND RINGS 

When dreams are in the making

Bright as your hopes for the future, shining as the dreams you share is love's eternal symbol, your Keepsake Diamond Ring. 

For this important lifetime choice, select a Keepsake, the ring of guaranteed high quality in color, cut and clarity. True value is assured by the Keepsake Certificate signed by your jeweler and Keepsake. 

Ask your trusted Keepsake Jeweler to show you Keepsake, awarded the coveted Fashion Academy Award for the second consecutive year. To avoid the disappointment of an unwise choice, look for the name, Keepsake, in the ring and the words "guaranteed registered perfect gem" on the tag. In a wide range of styles. at prices from $100.00 to $1000.00. 

A. VANDYKE Ring $500.00. Wedding Ring $125.00. 

B. CAMERON Ring $200.00. Also $100.00 to $2475.00. Wedding Ring $12.50  *Man's Diamond Ring $100.00. Available at $75.00 to $230.00 to match all engagement rings. 

C. WOODLAND Ring $100.00. Wedding Ring $50.00.

 All rings illustrated available in white as well as natural gold. Prices include Federal tax. Rings enlarged to show details.

Fashion Award  

For the name of your nearest Keepsake Jeweler. call Western Union by number and ask for Operator 25. 

Free Useful 20·page book "The Etiquette of the Engagement and Wedding." Also the name of your Keepsake Jeweler and special gift offer of beautiful 48·page "Bride's Keepsake Book." Write Dept. HB 5·51. A. H. Pond Company, Inc., Syracuse 2, N. Y. 

AMSTERDAM . ANTWERP . HOME OFFICE-SYRACUSE, N, Y. 

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Lipsticks Made While You Wait-In just four minutes Mary Chess mixes and perfumes (with any of the Chess fragrances) and molds a perfect, glossy lipstick in any red you wish; keeps a record so that you can have an identical refill any time. Lipsticks, $1.50.* Refills, $1.00.*

PLUS FEDERAL TAX

Bonwit Teller. 

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TWO AMERICAN SINGERS
Robert Rounseville, tenor of the New York City Opera Company, who returns this spring in Love for Three Oranges, sings the title role in the film version of Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann. The film was produced in England by Pressburger and Powell who made The Red Shoes; the music is under Sir Thomas Beech- am's direction; and in it Mr. Rounseville shares honors with four top-flight British talents: Moira Shearer, Pamela Brown, Robert Helpmann and Frederick Ashton.
Photo by RONNY JAQUES
Susan Reed began her career a few years ago as a singer of folk songs at Cafe Society in New York. Now she gives concerts at Town Hall in the spring and fall, and records for Columbia, her latest disk, Songs of the Auvergne, features enchanting music from one of France’s oldest provinces. She also tours the United States singing "Cockles and Mussels," "Gentle, Johnny," "Turtle Dove," and other ballads dear to the hearts of her countrymen.
Photo by BURKE-BEAUJON
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UNIVERSAL , GENEVE
For wonderful carefree timekeepers These limited editions have been designed to give good performance and that permanent joy a beautiful possession  always inspires. In 14 Kt. gold from $71.50, F.T.I.  
At Leading Jewelers Everywhere
THE HENRI STERN WATCH AGENCY, INC.,
587 Fifth Avenue, New York 17, N. Y.
© H.S.W.A.1951 

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Continued on page 164

Holland and Germany
Travel Circuit
Photo by RATHENAU-PIX 
· Tourists who've been warned and rightly so, that American dollars won't stretch nearly so far abroad as the myths would have it, can still find places outside the more obvious travel meccas of Europe where their holiday dollars will buy them an unsuspected lot of comfort and fun. Holland, certainly, is one of the more rewarding, pleasant and accessible countries where this holds true in these inflationary days, and for all its tininess, its canal-linked cities are abundantly rich in a variety of things to do, see and buy which are all considerably less battering to the budget than the familiar London-Paris-Rome circuit of the grand tour.
The Royal Dutch Airlines, KLM, can get you to Amsterdam in one of its huge "Flying Dutchmen" with the greatest of ease, speed and largesse, and you can stop there for a time, en route to any other place in Europe where you may have to be or want to go, without detour or difficulty. The superb food, drink and service of the flight turn out to be characteristic of the Dutch on their land legs as well.
Amsterdam, with its charming network of canals, its sixteenth-and seventeenth-century architecture lining the wide, clean streets, is one of the prettiest and most comfortable cities of Europe. It is easy to move around in, and the fact that practically everyone speaks English means that the American tourist can avoid much of the bewilderment and arm flailing confusion that often make his continental travels disheartening. For a double room with private bath, overlooking one of the canals, de luxe hotels like the Amstel, and first-rate places like the Victoria actually charge a good deal less than you'd have to pay for the same spanking, clean comfort in London or Paris. The Dutch custom, like the English, includes breakfast in the reckoning, an excellent meal of Dutch cheese, thin slices of black ",doorbeggor" generous hunks of "peperkoek" (a delicious honeycake) and excellent coffee.
The best way to see Amsterdam is to take the hour-and-a-quarter trip in one of the sight-seeing motorboats through the canals and into the harbor-the price, 26 cents.
 A multilingual guide, who shifts with staggering versatility from Dutch to English to French to German, points out the principal sights of the city-the old "Tower of Tears" from which Henry Hudson set sail; the lovely houses with contrasting facades on the Gentleman's Canal, where the merchants prospering on trade with the East lived in the seventeenth century; the beautiful old warehouses of the Amsterdam harbor. Any trip to Holland should allow a lot of time for its superb museums, with their rich treasure troves of great Dutch painting. Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum, which houses Rembrandt's "Night Watch" and a glutton's plenty of his other work, as well as gallery after gallery of Vermeer, de Hooch and a Dutch treat of the other masters; the Rembrandt House, with the greatest collection in the world of the master's etchings and drawings; the lovely Mauritshuis in The Hague; the Frans Hals Museum in Haarmel, are all easier to move through and considerably better arranged and lighted than more Baedeker-starred places like the Louvre and the Uffizi of Florence.
A fascinating compote of museums antique gallery, bistro and restaurant is the famous Five Flies on Amsterdam's Squistraat, run by a superb showman named Nicolaas Kroese. Housed in an interconnected row of small seventeenth-century buildings, the place takes its name from the ancestor of Kroese who was the original builder (Jan Janszoon Vijffvliegen or John Johnson Five-Flies), and it's an incredible labyrinthine maze of bars and dining rooms festooned at every inch and corner with antique kettles, tiles, candles, ship's lanterns, music boxes and old Dutch furniture. Start off the evening bolting the quietly potent Dutch gin called Genever in one of the several downstairs rooms ( Ye Olde Cellar or the Hall of Knights or the Rembrandt Room). The waiters are dressed in seventeenth-century velvet costume, and two excellent tenors sing Dutch folk songs to the accompaniment of antique banjos. To get to dinner in the restaurant upstairs, you grope along rope handrails up a very steep flight of stairs. Specialties of the house are duck with orange or chicken in casserole, for a dinner which costs between two and three dollars.
The food is excellent both at the Five Flies and another of Kroese's Amsterdam restaurants, the Black Sheep, where the waiters are dressed in Volendam costume, and the antiques are as plentiful as the gin, beer and the thoroughly inoffensive, if thoroughly conscious, quaintness of the whole place.
Holland is such a tiny country that it is possible to get from one to another of the principal cities, from Amsterdam to The Hague, Haarlem, Utrecht and Rotterdam, in very short order and still have time for stops at the innumerable, charming little towns in and around the way. Because it is such a flat country Holland is a cyclist's paradise, and there are almost as many bicycles, in town and country both, as there, are people. All the roads are equipped with special cycling paths, and several excellent, very inclusive itineraries for cycling tourists have been mapped out by the ANVV, the Netherlands National Tourist Office at 10 Rockefeller Plaza in New York, or 38 Parkstraat in The Hague. If you hire a bicycle, once the KLM lands you in Amsterdam it's a fine way to absorb the quiet, spacious beauties of the Dutch landscape and the soft, evocative light through which the windmills and farmhouses loom in brooding relief.
The Hague, less than 35 miles from Amsterdam, is the royal residence and diplomatic center of Holland, a staid and dignified city that makes a fine base for exploring the Dutch countryside farther south than Amsterdam, Double rooms with private baths at the de luxe hotels Des lndes and Vieux Doelen are cheap by American standards. Near by is The Hague's beach resort. Scheveningen, for swimming in the North Sea and a look at the herring fleet, manned and kept in order by fishermen and women in regional costume.
The charming city of Delft, where the famous blue-white chinaware is manufactured, is only a few miles southeast of The Hague, and its canals, narrow streets and tidy little houses combine into a perfect example of a typical, small, ancient Dutch city, With either The Hague or Amsterdam as a starting point you can explore the great bulb-fields that bloom in the spring between Haarlem and Leyden, Tuliptime in Holland comes between March and May, and the high point of a visit to the region is at Keukenhof, near Lisse, 60 acres packed with bulb-flowers which put on a natural flower show all the spring long. Four-and six-day tours, focusing on the tulip fields but ranging out to all the principal attractions of Holland, can be arranged for Easter or April or early May, or Whitsuntide. Of course, in a country like Holland, which is almost as much water as it is land, one of the pleasantest ways of moving around is by boat through the interconnected canals. You can even go by steamer to Basel in five days direct from Rotterdam, whose harbor connects with the Rhine.
Each of the outlying parts of Holland has its own unique traditional dress, and Marken and Volendam are the most famous of the places that have retained their old costumes and customs, But a less tourist-conscious backwater on the Zuyder Zee, and perhaps more authentic, is Spakenburg, extremely quiet, clean and puritanical, where attempts to photograph them are frowned on by the natives. There, women dressed in lace caps, long billowing skirts and stiff shields of colored print cloth across their shoulders and backs can be seen wheeling babies in streamlined modern prams along the main canal.
Not far from Spakenburg, only 20 miles from Amsterdam, secluded in the woods between Hilversum and Baarn, is one of the most charming hotels in northern Europe, the Castle Hooge Vuursche. Despite the name, the prices are considerably less than princely. The castle was originally built by a wealthy Dutch businessman as a present for his young bride, and the seclusion, quiet and luxurious peace of the hotel make it a superb haven for a honeymoon. The rooms are a perfection of comfort and grandeur, with that rare quality in any hotel of suggesting permanence rather than transience. The hotel is rich in terraces, ponds and 70 acres of woods, and you can ride, golf or swim the days away. And the chef is a wizard.
Like most countries, tiny or large, which take great pride in their craftsmanship and the special flavor of the local culture, Holland has plenty of shops to satisfy a souvenir hunger and a good deal of the knickknacks on display are as laboriously quaint as tourist bait inevitably becomes. But the best things to look for, along such busy shopping streets as the Kalverstrsst in Amsterdam, are Delft chinaware, food (Edam and Gouda cheese, chocolate, the toffee like candies called Hopjes), Dutch gin and liqueurs put up in Delft blue jugs, antique and new Dutch tiles, costume jewelry made from the lovely silver buckles and buttons found in Zeeland. A good Amsterdam haunt for jewelry and silverware is the Five Flies souvenir shop, another venture run by that ubiquitous restaurateur, Nicolaas Kroese. If you remember that the Dutch guilder is worth about 25 cents American, it's easy to compute the cost of your purchases into familiar-sounding amounts.
KLM, by the way, has recently inaugurated direct flight service between New York and Frankfurt and Munich, in the American Zone of Germany. You can visit family, beaux and friends who are working for the occupation government (though you don't need so specific a reason to go there, of course), for the cost of your ticket and a $2.00 visa which can now be obtained direct from the German consulates in either New York or Chicago. Since the KLM flights to and from Germany make a stop at their home base, Amsterdam, you might want to combine the trip with a stopover in Holland.
The war souvenirs of rubble, burned-out husks of buildings and jagged walls are still in depressingly plain relief throughout the two principal cities of the American Zone in Germany, but neither Frankfurt nor Munich is desolate, dead or uncomfortable for the curious visitor. Munich, that jewel in the crown of the famous Ludwigs of Bavaria, is still a fascinating city, with enough remnants of its former glories to give more than a slight idea of its claim to greatness.
There is no shortage of excellent hotel accommodation, superb food, and of course the magnificent Bavarian beer still flows as freely as the waters of Niagara. The Bayerischer Hof, in the Promenadeplatz, has been rebuilt and is excellent. The famous restaurant Schwarzwalder’s Natur Weinhaus in the Hartmannstrasse was uninjured during the war, and the specialty, pheasant and sauerkraut, is available in familiar, if slightly staggering, German plenty. As a prewar guidebook put it, "the good Beer Houses in Munich are crowded all day but particularly in the evening and attract visitors of all grades of society including ladies," and the dean of them all is the great Hofbrauhaus in the Platzl, with its gigantic beer hall (“schwemme") on the ground floor, and a dining room on the next. There are as many beerhouses and beer cellars (pubs attached to breweries) in Munich as there are sidewalk cafes in Paris, but the Hofbrauhaus is the hugest and hoariest of them all.
A more regal relic of Bavaria is at Nymphenburg, one of the great showplaces on the outskirts of the city. Sightseeing buses which make the rounds of the city twice a day include a trip to Nymphenburg as part of the tour. The baroque palace, once the summer residence of the Bavarian kings, along with the ornately landscaped park and the rococo perfection of the hunting lodge, Amielenburg, are magnificent monuments of royal living, and they were hardly touched in the war.
In summer, swarms of Munchners make for the Alpine coolness of the Tegernsee, a charming lake dotted with numerous· small resorts, only about an hour and a half by bus from the city. Or, if the focus of your trip is Frankfurt (KLM will get you there in an hour from Munich) you can visit the famous spas of Wiesbaden, Homburg or Nauhiem.
Frankfurt itself is lively, though still pretty much of a shambles. The medieval quality of the "old city" with its cobblestoned streets and charming old houses (including the revered " Casa Santa" on the Grosse Hirschgraben where Goethe was born) was destroyed during the war. But the Goethe House has been reconstructed, rooms at the Frankfurter Hof are excellent, and you can sample the numerous wines, like Hochheim (the "hock" which Queen Victoria shipped in great amounts to England), and other vintages for which the surrounding country with its vast vineyards is famous. With Frankfurt as base headquarters, you can take trips along the Rhine, walks through the Taunus forest, excursions to Heidelberg or to Kronberg, site of the superbly beautiful castle built by Victoria's daughter, the Empress Fredericka. It is now a club for American officers, and you can have drinks and dinner only at the invitation of friends working for the occupation government. But it is a remarkable place and worth whatever effort you may have to make to get to see it. ------------Pearl Kazin  

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