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I’VE BEEN AROUND NEW YORK | By TED YATES Btltmtd h ** INDEPENDENT PRESS SERVICE, 27 J BUtcktr St-, Nnc York 14, N, Y. A ifrAgSt* (irtw. Rtfrtdmtlin to Pm* ** ttHcfh ttrNdin, BILLY ECKSTINE SEPIA SINATRA “COMING ON” Ted Yates New York (IPS)—When a handsome young man with an exciting baritone voice comes along with a new band that breaks attendance records, that’s unusual. But, when he makes a single recording that sells far beyond the capacity of the record company to produce it, and the capacity of the rec ord company to produce it, and receives offers from Dar ryl Zanuck’s Twentieth Cen tury Fox picture company and Broadway producers—not for getting the fact that theatres are paying him prices never before paid for a new attract ion—then it’s pretty evident that a new star has been born. The above description applies to Billy Eckstine who comes very close, even at this early date, to being “a Negro Frank Sinatra.” The 30 per cent cabaret tax so ruinous to flight clubs—was the cause of Billy’s current success. It decided him to quit night clubs where he had been working as a “single” (prior to that he had been working with Earl Hines) and form his own band. Immediately, top stars quit “name bands to join up and Dizzy Gillespie, How ard McGenn, Charlie Parker, Lucky Thompson and Shadow Wilson formed the nuceleus. The band smashed records from opening day on in Det roit, Cleveland, Washington and other key cities. A top seller on records with Hines, he made just one wax ing with the new band for a small outfit, the UeLux Ke cording Company. Fortunately for DeLuxe he didn’t make more because that company has been unable to keep up with Billy’s fans. Able to pro duce 20,000 waxings a month, the company finds itself with 72,000 requests for “I Stay In The Mood For You” and the “Good Jelly Blues”. Formerly specializing in hillbilly songs, DeLuxe has all it can do to handle the Eckerstine disc. Lena Horne is landing every effort to have MGM sign Eck stine for singing roles oppos ite her and Twentieth Century Fox has already screen-tested the lad. Nat Goldstone offered him a role in his well-regard ed musical “Bloomer Girl” due i for production soon but the band’s current tour is much | too lucrative for Eckstine to consider it. The Eckstine are heading for the Regal Theater in Chi cago where they will be paid $5,500 per week and a split of over $17,000—..—an unheard figure for a new band. It will receive a similar wage at the Apollo in New York. Billy is certainly the most promising colored performer there has been in a long while. He is really “coming on.” The Cascade Tunnel, of the Great Northern Railroad, through the Cascade moun tains in Chelan and King Counties, Washington, is 41, 152 feet (7.79 miles) in length, and is the longest railway tun nel in the Western Hemis phere. HOUSEHOLD HINTS Mary Ann Knowit Trimming is to clothes what seasoning is to food— just en ough adds zest; too much of it spoils the taste. With but tons, sequins, bows, belts, and frills, lace, ribbons, beads, tos sels and various other trim mings, one can make four or five different dresses from one plain dress. The secret of ef fectiveness in trimmings, how ever, lies in a sparing use of them. There are many women who sew beautifully, but the finished product looks tacky and home-made. This happens because most women who sew do not have a thourough kno wledge of trimming. A suit is more attractive if it has crafty arrowheads on the ockets or saddle stitching on the plain seam. Silk blduses for evening or dress wear are extremely comely and more expensive looking if festoons of tiny beads are added to the collar and cuffs. A plain dress with buttons and belt of sequins or beads is always bewitching, and this button and belt set can be transterred to other dresses if you desire. Lace in sertions always give a very dainty appearance to a blouse or dress. Rick-rack is a very common trimming but when Focal Point Lf Cold War "** ^ ^ (Soundphoto) — With the joint proposal of the United States, Great Britain and France that the free territory of Trieste be re turned to Italy, this former Italian seaport again becomes the focal point in the cold war between the western democracies and the Soviet Union and her satellites. Trieste, marked with an arrow, is garri soned by a handful of British and American troops while across the Yugoslav border Marshall Tito is believed to have massed overwhelm ing military power. 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Don’t miss tb»c helpful free offer—clip the handy coupon today! ti Sfoc&Uctty is your BIGGEST BARGAIN s | LET IT DO MORE FOR YOU! j OMAHA PUBLIC POWER DISTRICT | OMAHA PUBLIC POWER DISTRICT ■ | OMAHA, NEBRASKA ■ 1 Please send my free Electricity Cost Estimator, so g ■ I can see what cheaper electricity means to me in my ■ H home. ___ — H m Name.~-^--i—^--,, ® m -—# mm " AAW - _ ."_T _ _ ■ mmmummmummmmmmmmmmmrn a course lace is mhde from the rick rack or various colors of rick rack is braided together, an advance step is made in ad ding interest and becoming ness to your clothes. The decision on where and when to use trimming must be based upon the desin of the dress itself. Simple designs with very few cuts are the best background for the trimming I have mentioned, but dresses in which shirring, drapery, tucks, or pleats are part of the design do not require any add itional decoration. There are many very interesting and he lpful things to be learned about trimmings, and I have a book that has all the information and illustrations on how< to make things I have mentioned and many, many more. If you are interested, or have a friend who is interested in learning how to trim clothes, send a stamped self addressed envel ope and ten cents to Home Sewing Bureau 400 Manhattan Avenue, Suite 4, New York 26, New York, and ask for the book entitled Trimmings. WHAT THE WELL-DRES SED WOMEN WEAR By Hazel Green Mrs. Esse Myers was wear ing a beautiful navy blue suit, pink blouse with a bow in front. She was wearing a bea utiful pink hat with different colored drapes satin stris all around. Blue corde bag and navy blue leather shoes and gloves. Olive Jackson was wearing a pink and tan light weight wool dress, with silver fox scarf. Black straw hat off face, black patent ankle strape shoes, and black patent leather bag. Alice Woods, 2105 Miami, looked lovely in a black silk flowered dress with pink carn ations. Pink gloves, pink flow ered hat. A gray wool short coat and black leather bag. Vorese Fish looked very nice in a blue and white erepe dress with black atent leather shoes and bag, with a black smooth straw hat off the face. Mrs. Denroza Waldron look ed charming in a black taffeta suit, a ruff straw hat close fit, with high crown and no brim, with large red poppies down the side. Black sandel shoes, and black beaded hox shape box with a mink scarf. Mrs. Betty L. Toliver of 221 Hermosa, Nashville, Tenn., was wearing a lovely black crepe dress w-ith draped side | with a large bow. §he had a [beautiful off face Milan black straw hat. Red gloves, red lea ther slinding pumps and red gloves. Around her neck were ---- a air of sklinskys with Martin tails. Black corde bag. Edna Blair Moses was wear ing a lovely gray linen suit with a red scalloped midriff with a gray scalloped bolero, red and white dress sandles, a white grograin ribboned hat with upturned brim. Emma Carter, 2215 Burdette brown crepe dress, brown lea ther bag and a lovely brown straw hat with a high crown, with pink flowers. Cut out brown leather shoes. Gloria Vann, gray three quarter length coat, a black crepe dress with two tiers, a shoes and black bag and glov es. Ruth Gilliland was wearing white accordine pleated skirt with a short white wool jack et with flare back. Green snake skin shoes, and'a small envel ope type green snake skin bag. White satin blouse and small | green flowered hat. Bryice Biagus was wearing a beautiful black • gabardine shirt, a straight skirt with cur ved slit front, gray hat with yds of draped vieling all aroun the brim, gray suede shoee and bag. Around her neck were a air of skolinsky's. Naomi Byron of 2918 Bur dette Street had on a light weight wool suit, a brown bag and gloves, a. small brown straw hat, with three small poppies in front and a ribbon tied in back. Lillie Levinson was wear ing a light cocoa colored white striped suit. Brown lizard san del dress shoes and bag. Pan ama straw hat with small brim and a brown ribbon a round the crbw-n. She was wearing a mink scarf, and she was carrying a muth colored cloth bag and cocoa gloves. Mrs. Joyce Gaskin, Turquo ise blue suit, with slight ruf fle on the jacket. Navy blue shoes, bag and gloves. She was wearing a large brim yel low ruff straw hat with a bro wn ribbon. | Vttij. VlsuqhbtfiA By Bax Paulson “If the people preachin' Collectiv ism haven't made oat under Free Enterprise, you can bet they’ll be failures under Collectivism too!” I - ■ i Mayfair Milk Chocolate Cake Attention chocolate lovers! Here is the cake of cakes for you! Rich, choco late layers, covered with a milk chocolate frosting, not too sweet, tlfet melts at the touch of your tongue. Hidden in this luscious frosting are almonds, that have been split and toasted. This wonderfully tender, delectable cake is the chocolate lover’s dream. Clip this tested, easy-to-make recipe today and give the family a treat. _ _v Ji ' Mayfair Milk Chocolate Cake iy4 cups silted cake Hour iy3 cups sugar ^ 2 teaspoons baking powder (tartrate powder, 3 teaspoons 5 *4 teaspoon soda ' “ ‘ % teaspoon salt % cup Spry 2 ounces chocolate, melted 1 cup undiluted evaporated millr ) 1 teaspoon vanilla —— 2 eggs ( SIFT flour, sugar, baking powder, soda, and salt into 'mixing bowl 7^*. DROP in Spry ... ADD melted chocolate ... ADD milk and vanilla and beat 200 strokes (2 minutes by hand or on mixer at low speed). Scrape bowl and spoon or beater ... ADD eggs and beat 200 strokes (2 minutes on mixer at low speed). Again scrape and mix. BAKE in two square 8 x 8-inch Sprycoated pans in moderate oven (350° F.) 25-35 minutes. SPREAD Almond Milk Chocolate Frosting ibetween layers and on top and sides of cake. Almqnd Milk Chocolate Frosting. Soften 1 package (3 ounces) cream 'cheese with 3 tablespoons heavy cream. Add 34 teaspoon salt. Add 2J4 cups of sifted confectioners’ sugar gradually, beating well after each addi tion. Add 34 teaspoon vanilla and 1 ounce chocolate, melted, and beat until smooth. Add 34 cup almonds, that have been split in half lengthwise and toasted. Spread on cake. (If frosting seems stiff, add about 1 table spoon cream for better spreading consistency.) Makes enougS frosting to cover tope and sides of two square 8-inch layers. “ROMANCE IN RYTHM” HOLDS SPOTLIGHT IN CLUB EBONY NEW SHOW Bv Floyd Snelson New York— Pulchritude, sc intillating beauty, charming personality hold the spotlight at Club Ebony on Broadway, in its new show of April 22. Top heavy with flamourous stars including Ida (‘Knock Me A Kiss’) James, pretty and dimpled song stylist. Ida is far and away the most stunnian sepian siren in town: starlet of “Meet The People”; featuring inj Olson’s and Johnson’s “Lau ghing Room Only” and high light of New Yorks smart Ca fe Society—all that and much more. Rosebud, exotic dancer, of ten referred to as the “Fine Brown Frame", will contribute her share of the raves and thri lls of the new show at Club Ebony. Seein’ is believin’ and the pleasurer’s all yours. No binoculars needed in this show. Blind People pities; but not admitted. —Snelson 15"M Selling Items More than 50 per cent of all canned fruits, vegetables and juices sold in the last few years come in the No. 2 can. That's the 20 ounce container with approximately 2% cup content. 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