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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1956-04-26, Page 7Wore Mouse -Trap For A Hat Top flight hair fashion artists and stylists in, the famous sal-" 411D,s are now busy planking their ai<ext season's coiffures. 'Why do they undertake this highly ex- pensive business? A stylist can *Mate a hair fashion that will *ernhundreds of thousands of dilollars. Yet he gets little Or no- thing Out of it, except perhaps sane grudging admiration, if he even prove that he invented the yiyle. To whom, then, does the for - time go? It goes to thousands eV salon owners who cater for Ole fashion world, There is no pyright to a hair style. Once it has been introduced and it catches on, any competent hair- epresser in Macclesfield or Min- >eicapolis or Montreal can copy it and sell it to women as his fen work. An unknown London hair dresser produced a fashion about Ike time of the first world war that not only earned hairdress- ers millions of dollars, but also made permanent waving a pay- ing proposition and created the altedern women's hairdressing 'business. This was the "Bob," *e first modern short - hair- rtyle. And the man who created it was almost certainly a men's hairdresser. The "Shingle," which fo110..ed Pk made nearly as much.,-.- :No etue knows for certain who in- vented that, except it must again have been the work of a men's hairdresser, because they are all eatrpert cutters of hair. Few ;ladies' hairdressers can compete with them in this branch. A more recent style — it swept pit world — was the "Page Boy." Credit for that simple fashion avast go to the film studio hair- dresser who dressed Greta Gar - he's blonde locks. Garbo the Great, incidentally, was a hair- dresser before setting out on hear fabulous film career. But aoet a women's hairdresser. She worked in a men's saloon, shav- titbristly male chins and cut - hair! . Garbo's long - lived contribu- , • the "Page Boy," however, ead of making a fortune for dressers, nearly ruined them. lost them millions of dollars Britain and the United States. This was because the style pea1d be •fixed easily by a w'om- M herself, without the aid of d ' profesilonal hairdresser.. - It only too easy — • the hair not ,even need to be ` cut, brushed smoothly ever the and the ends lightly curled wards. Hairdressers have never for - teen, Garbo for publicizing this on with such unwitting but E: dly effect. The fact that she worked in the business mere - added a load of salt to the IWOund! in days gone by hair stylists were people of great; importance SALLY'S SALLIES 4"'ou know, dear, this business, V looking beautiful is really an art." JUicK LINE TRUNK LINE — Edward Heintz, never quit working on -railroad cars when he retired. He simply transferred his affections from the Railroad, where he was a car carpenter, to a brand-new attic railroad. Now 68, he's been working four or five hours a day on his hobby since he retired. He has built 150 cars—gondolas, coaches and cabooses—mostly out of oil cans from gas station rubbish bins and scrap lumber. He has two miles of track, has built switches and even a three-level elevator. His only purchase was fi pair of locomotives. "It makes me for- get a lot of the world's troubles;' says Heintz. in society and they amassed con- siderable wealth. In Napoleon's time they had carriages and liv- eried servants. Frederic, hair- dresser to Napoleon's Josephine, had a special position and priv- ileges at court which would nev- er be accorded to the royal hair- dresser in England. Hair fashions in those times were the key to dress and mil- linery styles. The dress design- er was compelled to follow the work and ideas of the hair stylist, whose work outshone his' own. Styles were highly ornate and complex. As many as sik. lith'- dressers would work .epee one coiffure. Towards the end 1e eighteenth century, hair was 'Of- ten dressed up to the height of three feet. Women who wore these creations had to sit on the floors of their carriages, and those who slept in their coif- fures had to have special wood- en rests made for their shoul- ders and neck. Because flour was used..a good deal in the dressings to keep thein stiff and in shape, one not- able lady always went to sleep with a mousetrap concealed in her hair to prevent mice from eating her coiffure! These fantastic hair styles, which stylists could repeat to- day if they were ever required, sometimes cost their wearers well over $500 a time, plus the high cost -of maintenance. One of the most remarkable styles in the whole history of hair fashion was that produced during the French Revolution. Ito was called a la Victime au Sacrifice. The hair .was drawn up well from the nape of the neck, forward and over the crown, as it was arranged for the scaffold, the only difference being that it fell on the fore- head in a bunch of curls. Pale face make-up was used tip» nom ., LAIN IS FILM STAR—The functions of the human brain were recently filmed far the first time at demonstration In Vienna University. Above, a laboratory assistant holds an anesthetic !smack over the patient's face. After a contrast substance has linen injected into the bloodstream, X-rays are directed through Oh* skull. The X-rays are converted into electronic rays by a ec'mplicated apparatus and then photographed by the movie erctmera at right. The camera can take more than 300 pictures ewe the brain within 12 to 15 seconds. to emphasize the macabre effect and a scarlet ribbon was tied round the neck. This coiffure was worn by young aristocratic ladies to show their contempt for the guillotine. The new styling among men will undoubtedly lead. to the use of the new hair make-up techniques. This will be due to the lead given by certain middle- aged TV stars and stage stars who never seem to go grey and mostly have curly or wavy hair. This is induced by ..the old de- vice of blow waving and discreet use of permanent waving. The biggest men's hair stylist of the century was the hair- dresser, now dead, of the Wal- dorf Hotel. He was the famous Browne who invented the clip- ped moustache and the various military haircuts which have lasted for so many years. He made a fortune, lost it in pros- pecting for gold in South Af- rica, and then returned to Lon- don to take up his old job until he died a few years age. Crocodiles, Savages, Guard Safety Two hundred men live in ex- ile in the land of Mtumbu, the sacred crocodile, and more than half of them are wanted for murder. The land lies mid- way between Angola and South-West Africa, in the arid region of Ovamboland. Neither the murderers, nor any of the other fugitives who are wanted by the police for every crime from blackmail to forgery, ever return to civili- zation again. In the past thirty years only one man, John Hepburn, has returned from this wilderness over which no government rules. Though, of course, no criminal himself, Hepburn was able to study the life of the ex- iles. The Ovahimba aboriginals whoinhabit the area owe alle- giance to no country except their own. The Portuguese, who rule Angola, and the South-West African admiini- stration have stated that they want= °nothing to do with this piece of infertile, barbarous land fringing on the muddy, dangerous Kunene River. The tribe of Ovahilnba, it was stated by Hepburn, are about 10,000 strong, but being cursed with too many girl babies, more than 6,000 of the tribe are women and girls. At infrequent intervals the warriors made forays into An- gola and the rest of Ovambo- land to steal finale children aged from a year to five years. These children. are reared as 'members of the tribe, and are brought in to swell the dimin- ishing number of males. Every quarter, at at the full moon, two girls, who must be under fifteen years, are sacri- ficed'' to Mtumbu, the sacred crocodile, in order to ensure a little rainfall and a crop of boy babies. Panlbegele is the recognized chief of the tribe, and to him the white outlaws go when they arrive in the territory ruled over by the crocodile. Presents are given, and the Men are welcomed regardless %of what they might have done in the past. The great scarcity of males forces the dying tribe to adopt any male who arrives. There is only one condition attached to • entry into the area. That is that the wanted men will take from four to six wives from girls among the tribe and father children. The men have a free choice, but adultery is punishable by death—death at the jaws of the crocodiles which infest the Ku- nene River. On the day when a sacrifice is to be made, the girl victims are led to the centre of the stockade close to the river, where they are prepared with a pagan ceremony which in- cludes the anointing of the body with oil. The crocodiles know when victims are to be brought to them. They sense it in the beat- ing of the tom-toms and the chanting on the river -bank. Slowly the first one comes from the river and moves to- wards the first girl. As the cro- codile ne^"s the girl, the tribe ° fall on 1 ,e r faces, and a low moan esc.,ees them. For some years raids were carried out on the area by Portuguese and South-West Af- rican police, but with no suc- cess. A system of espionage warns the tribe days before- hand of the approach of police, with a result that everyone is hidden in the rocky mountains close by when the policemen arrive. In 1931 three notorious mur- derers, wanted for at least ten murders each, managed to find sanctuary in the land of the crocodiles. A large police force was as- sembled and sent to fetch the men and any other wanted criminals hiding among the aboringals. When the police arrived there wasn't a trace Of the tribe, but more determined Offi- cers led an expedition into the mountains to seek Out the tribe and the murderers. Of some forty well -armed men who ventured into the mountains. Only Four Came Out Alive. In the night, poison- ed arows rained down on them. A few years ago two men held up a bank and shot dead a bystander, a teller, and the manager. They escaped and disappeared. Later a police pa- trol plane saw a small car heading through the desert near the Kunene .River. A police desert truck was despatched in pursuit. The small car was found abandoned On the banks of the Kunene, but of the men there was no trace. A few months later a magis- trate received a taunting note: "Come and get us if you want us." It was signed "The Bank Robbers." They are still at large somewhere in that vast- ness. 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