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...pesky milkweed, cursed by farmers, has found a use-as a substitute for kapok. With a newly invented milkweed gin, a Michigan factory will next month start removing 1,000,000 lb. of floss from milkweed pods, for the U.S. Navy. The floss will replace kapok, formerly imported from Java, in l) life jackets where, like kapok, it is six times as buoyant as cork; 2) linings of flying suits, where it is as warm as wool but six times lighter. Next year farmers will be paid to plant free milkweed seed in 50,000 barren acres of upper Michigan...
...order affected other silk consumers as well. There would be no more silk for football pants, fringes, lamp shades, fish lines and flies, tennis-racket strings, waterproof tobacco pouches, typewriter ribbons, dental floss, surgical stitchings, violin strings, neckties, hats, lingerie, sheets, pajamas, or Mohammedan prayer rugs...
...Mill on the Floss," the accompanying picture, is of an entirely different sort from "The Amazing Mr. Williams." Acted and photographed well, its direction lacks the spark to make it outstanding. The Victorian lines of George Eliot may be responsible for much of its lack of color. Although their endings are different, "Mill on the Floss" follows its namesake novel quite closely. This fact and some spectacular shots of turbulent water thundering over the broken dam are the principal redeeming features of a production which is by no means exceptional reading period fare...
...magician pulls a white rabbit out of a silk hat, so the Fine Arts Theatre seems to pull consistently entertaining pictures out of thin air. "Mill on the Floss" is undoubtedly one of the funniest pictures of the year. It is all the funnier because it sets out to be a soul-searing tragedy of Sophocletian dimensions...
...favorite creation at the recent Schiaparelli winter opening was a black cocktail dress with shortish skirt, black rose-shaped buttons, a high V neck and lips of bright red floss embroidered on the pockets of the short jacket. Mrs. Reginald Fellowes, leader of London's cafe set and onetime friend of the Duke of Windsor, liked it and bought it. So last week did Mrs. Charles Crocker of Manhattan; Mrs. D. J. Sayman of St. Louis; Mrs. Herbert Mavre of Glencoe, Ill.; Mme Alfira de Riglos of Buenos Aires; Mrs. Charles Hanna of Cairo; Mlle Jean Mastbaum of Paris...