Photoplay (Jul-Dec 1956)

YOUNG IDEAS: PHOTOPLAY AMERICAN DESIGNER PATTERNS buttoned-bodice charmer AMERICAN DESIGNER PATTERN #1244 Adding curves to your bodice is this cleverly bias-cut, simple-to-sew Harvey Berin dress that takes you everywhere in style. With its straight, buttoned panel, the bodice creates a beautiful effect made in plaids or stripes. Focusing interest on the neckline is a dark organdy bow tied under a white collar. Skirt is slim with center back pleat. For fall (and year ’round), use the new heavier textured cottons. Sizes 10-18. Size 12 requires 3Vs yards of 39-inch fabric for dress with % length sleeves. This pattern is hand-cut to Designer measurements. Check the figures below for your best fit. BUST 34 35 36y2 38 40 WAIST 24 25 26y2 28 30 HIPS 35 36 37y2 39 41 SIZE 10 12 14 16 18 smooth-line flatterer AMERICAN DESIGNER PATTERN #1226 Especially designed to show off a pretty young figure, this Sylvan Rich original slims above the waistline, falls into a soft flare below. Eye-catching rickrack trims dart-shaped bodice that's pie-cut to flatter graceful shoulders. Softly gathered tapered skirt and zip-back make it a simple dress to sew in time for fall. Use flowing silk or one of the new jerseys, sub stituting satin for a different trim. Sizes 10-18. Size 12 requires SVs yards of 36-inch fabric. This pattern is hand-cut to Designer measurements. Check the figures below for your best fit. BUST 34 35 361/2 38 40 WAIST 24 26 271/2 29 31 HIPS 35 36 37% 39 41 SIZE 10 12 14 16 18 To order Patterns, state number, size and send $1 for each to Spadea Fashions, Inc., P.O. Box 535, G.P.O., Dept. PP. New York I, N. Y. For check or money order, add 4if. For airmail, add 25<f each. at seventeen, he was amateur b< champion of Italy, as well as a chan tennis player. At eighteen, while a sti at the San Marco University at Floii (where he received his law doctorate won a prize as the best actor. It was about this time that he met , Bertolini, member of an aristocratic Fl( tine family. They were both studen the university, Rossano in law. Lid: literature, but their first glimpse of other was at a drama school they attending. One day in class, Lidia’s girlfi nudged her and whispered, “There’s Bi Isn’t he handsome?” Lidia recalls today that she wasn’t i impressed. Later, she saw him in a si play and thought he did a fine job. went backstage and told him so. They didn’t meet again until se"' weeks later. Lidi^ was traveling by to a village near Florence where or the school plays was to be presented, girlfriend pointed to Rossano who standing in the corridor, watching 1 intently. Lidia remembers that he wc high-necked Russian blouse and lo very dashing, but pretending not to bii terested, she commented to her fr “This one has a stupid face.” She saw Rossano again at the 1 where the school troupe was staying was frantically going through his i case looking for a shirt. “He lookei miserable, and the suitcase was in su mess,” Lidia recalls today. “His me, hadn’t had time to pack it for him, he had done it himself. We began to and we talked the rest of the evening “We must get married,” Rossano sail most immediately. Lidia was engage the time, but she broke it off. They together for two years, in spite of stant family opposition, before they dee' to go off to Rome and get married. “You can change your mind,” Lidia to tell Rossano at regular intervals up the day of their wedding. “It’s not late. You might be sorry one day.” “I will never regret it,” Rossano sai the time, and he still says it today. Rossano’s parents didn’t approve of getting married, but they were even i opposed to his abandoning law in favi the stage. He spent three months divi his time between the court room and hearsal halls, imtil one day he decids concentrate on swaying audiences, n than juries, with his rich voice. His first important stage role was ir Italian version of “Strange Interlude,” he received fine notices. For two year and Lidia played in the same company Rossano was seriously interested breaking into movies, but an unsucce screen test had left him discouraged, night he and Lidia were sitting in the Castellino, a theatrical hangout, whi friend came over to their table. “Hey, Rossano, there’s a big movie rector over there. He wants to talk to 3 Rossano got up and went over to tal him. After a few minutes he came and said glumly to Lidia, “It’s for yoi Lidia didn’t want to take the part th' rector was offering her. She hated ac all she wanted to do was stay at 1 and take care of Rossano, but he urged “We need the money,” he reasoned. Lidia worked for one day in a bit It was enough to convince her thatj wanted no part of movies. Sometimes when Rossano returns home from studio, tired and listless, and Lidia ir upon going out, saying, “Oh, you can that tired,” Rossano reminds her of day. “Don’t you remember how weary were, how you said your feet felt as if had been glued to vour shoes? Well, t I 84