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Magnetic, Gentle Woman BY CORDELL HICKS It is true that you meet a lot of interesting people in the newspaper business. However, you meet an Irene Dunne just once in a lifetime. Talking to her yesterday, a fresh impression was gained that she is no age- whatever it is, it does not matter. Today for this woman is practically always tomorrow. She dwells on the future.

The past? That was yesterday. Her gentle magnetism has nothing to do, really, with her size, shape or beauty, She is infinitely towering in capacity. Notably young and attractive in appearance, with ash-blond hair and eyes that change from green to blue to violet to HAPPY RECOLLECTION for Miss Irene Dunne was when she was awarded the Lateran Cross in 1951 from Francis Cardinal Spellman, Archbishop of New York. She was honored for "exemplary life and service to the Roman Catholie Church." In 1949 she received the Laetare Medal as the year's outstanding Catholic layman. 8--44--7765--1247? Nyet! Wrong Number BY EUGENIA SHEPPARD Herald Tribune News Service PARIS, Aug.

10 The Russian people may be gay, good looking and kind to their children, but the way they can foul up American tourists is not to be believed. I sandwiched in five days in Russia to see the final fate of the American fashion show in Moscow. Everything went on in a thick fog of mystery misunderstanding. It constantly was accompanied by a single word, "nyet," meaning, "nothing doing. It is absolutely impossible." The two Russian hotels in which most tourists are incarcerated loom over the horizon like Empire State buildings.

Each has more than 2,000 rooms. These hotels have no concierge, no room service, no REFORMED. YOUTH Martha telephone operator, no head waiter, no stoppers in the wash basins. Nyet. Each room is equipped with an electronic telephone.

It does away with a central switchboard and can set up direct communication between one hotel room and a room in a hotel 10 miles away. Takes 11 Turns to Make Call The only catch is that it takes at least 11 turns of the dial to accomplish the feat. The Russian telephone company hasn't caught up with the new invention and there are no telephone books. Russians go about carrying their friends' telephone numbers in their heads. Since a typical Russian telephone number is something like 8-44-7765-1247, the wee, small hours in a hotel bedroom are a nightmare of wrong numbers.

Because it meant so much to so many, the American fashion show at the exposition was a battleground from the start. Every American concerned had his or her idea of the message it ought to deliver. Uttering my last postmortem on subject, it seems to me the show does a miraculously good job of being just what is set out to be. Sables to sweaters, it is an honest-to-goodness picture of American fashion. Watching it is a little like looking at your own photograph.

You may think it ought to be taller, thinner or prettier, but you know it's you all the same. Martha Lacked Love This is the seventh of a series of eight articles on reformed youth. BY MARY ANN CALLAN Martha knew nothing of the ways of men. Her mother, a nurse, gave her only one word of instruction, negative as sin. She called her a "tramp," and Martha didn't know what the word meant.

The very lack of education and love made her exactly that later on. She lived up to her. mother's expectations. Such contradictions in her parents have plagued Martha for all of her 19 years. Her mother helped people all day at the hospital.

How could she be so selfish at home? She was fanatically religious but why SO un-Christian in what she did? Martha still hasn't quite figured this out, but she's learning. It's part of life. Reconciling what you wish had been with the awful truth is hardest with your parents. The facts cut deep, and Martha, though part of a new family encircled with love, still has scars. Wants to Turn Scar Tissue Into Strength She wants to turn the scar tissue into strength by helping young girls in trouble.

That's her professional goal. They call it probation work. She's had some experience with it, from the other side of the desk. It's quite a story. The trouble seemed to happen abruptly when she was 13.

Now she knows it gray, she is svelte with a Dunne grouping of elegance and spicy elan. Upon examining her photographic and clippings file at The Times, before going out to interview this actress who is always in the news, the scenes of her life flashed by richly, trailing her special brand of moonglow. and As the recorded went on, the scenes began to merge. The realization came that this successful woman is all of a piece whether it be actress, singer, wife, mother, humanitarian, civic worker, devout Roman Catholic, Republican layman campaigner or Presidential appointee to special posts. It all wraps up in "The Irene Dunne Story." Hollywood is crowded with gum-chewing, loud and luscious cuties.

Irene Dunne stands almost alone on her pinnacle as a successful actress with an ex- emplary, personal and professional life. She is old-fashioned word a gentlewoman. Lovely, with fine bones, a light and generations of breeding. Her voice is soft yet clear, her manner polite, natural and appealing. Courage to Believe in Her Principles Great inner strength is evident.

So is tough-fibered courage. This woman would burn at stake for a principle or belief if need be. Miss Dunne any "secret formula" for living. "I have certain times for meditation. It is important to have a strong foundation," she explained economically.

She is that rara avis--a well-integrated person. Her great personal and professional success was never achieved with a display of semi-nudity, bizarre Please Turn to Pg. 4, Col. 2 THE Los Angeles Times PART 11 TUESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 11, 1959 MISS FRANCES MURRAY HUNEKE she will become the bride of Hans von Briesen Jr. Von Briesen and Huneke Troth Told BY MARION COLLINS A Stanford romance which bloomed in a storybook Old World setting was disclosed in the betrothal of Miss Frances Murray Huneke to Hans von Briesen Jr.

The Californians popular Southern were selected last summer for the pioneering session of Stanfordin-Germany, the university study project founded in 1958 near Stuttgart. The engagement was announced at a family dinner party by the bride-elect's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Hussey Huneke of Hermosa Beach. Felicitations Sent From Palo Alto Toasting the young couple were his parents, Dr.

and Mrs. von Briesen, Mr. and Mrs. Jirayr H. Zorthian (Dabney von Briesen), and Frances' brother, Albert Jr.

Sending felicitations from Palo Alto were the John Hunekes (Ann Carter), who will be here for the wedding Dec. 27. The bride-to-be is the granddaughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Albert John Huneke of Los Angeles and the late Dr.

and Mrs. Augustus Taber Murray of Palo, Alto. future bridegroom is grandson of Mrs. the, Kaathoven of Washington, D.C., and the late Mr. W.

Barklie Henry of Philadelphia, and of the late Mr. and Mrs. Edward von Briesen. A DELEGATE TO THE United Nations 12th General Assembly, Miss Irene Dunne today is deeply interested in "good government for the world." President Eisenhower's personally inscribed picture is on the desk where she works at public affairs. Times photo by Harry Chase JOAN WINCHELL L.A.: Booming Capital of Health-Conscious HEALTH (or "a jillion ways to keep SUNDAY we discussed the various health secrets of various notables from Jayne Mansfield to Stan The Man Musial.

TODAY let's see what facilities Sam Citizen has for keeping himself shipshape. LOS ANGELES, we recently learned, is the most health-conscious city in the United States. SINCE newspapers always indicate the pulse of an area, The Times bears out this trend in its ads. THUMBING THROUGH a single edition the other day we came across relaxettes at the Broadway, slant boards at Magnin's and electric roller massages at the May Co. DIETS (the No.

1 factor to good health) are on the tip of everybody's tongue. Some swear by liquid diets. Others prefer dextrose diets. And there are the dieters who like the 7Cs diet-no candy, cereals, chocolate, crackers, cream, custard or cake, THE "PAINLESS PILL" fad is a multimillion-dollar business. It runs the gamut from Madame Helena Rubenstein's "reduce aids" to Thrifty Drug Store's "thindown BOOKS range from the no will power necessary variety (Simon Schuster's "Reduce and Stay to a 10-cent leaflet, "Happy Slimming" which is of full of tasty low-calorie recipes.

BUT of all the health systems, the health salons are enjoying the biggest Silhouette) have mushboom. Mercy, mercy, are roomed to multi-millionthey ever! They come in so dollar proportions throughmany flavors it's positively out the nation. All of them staggering. more or less exploit the old fable that in every woman THERE ARE the Fig- dwells a secret Cinderella ure Magic Salons (no drugs, who dreams of a golden no exercises, no diets, and coach, glass slipper and a no disrobing.) prince who's a combination WILLO-SLIM in of Gregory Peck and GorBeverly Hills for "slenderizing, re- geous George. proportioning and posture SLENDERELLA alone has 300,000 "satisfied custoTHE DE SOUS mers" who have lost Gyro- 000 lb.

and 4,500,000 in. ducing Salon on Robertson (which promises "no star- CATCHY SLOGANS are vation diets, no excerises catching attention. (As' is and no contracts to evidenced by Stuffer's "for a wife whose husband loves THE BIG THREE (Stauffer, Slenderella and Please Turn to Pg. 3, Col. 1 Garden Party Set by St.

Anne's Unit was a long time coming. 'All of a sudden there was no love in our house. My folks fought all the time and kept saying they stayed together only because of us (three children)." Martha and her two brothers reacted in many ways. They stole things from stores and broke into school. And Martha ran away.

One time she stayed away two weeks becoming a "missing person" on the police blotter. She managed it by living with older men. Being attractive and developed ahead of her years, it was easy. Recovery Not Easy, Martha Discovers But recovering from the experience was not so Even the untaught have an inherent sense of Without love in the home, basis for balanced sex education, Martha was plainly confused. She going Please Turn to Pg.

2, Col. 2 Allen- Volkmann Rite Set Aug. 29 Miss Susan Voikmann, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer A.

Volkmann, and Charles Anthony Allen have chosen Aug. 29 for their marriage, which is the wedding anniversary of Dr. and Mrs. Raymond B. Allen, parents of the future bridegroom.

The 8 p.m. service will be read in St. Alban's Episcopal Church, Westwood Hills, and the reception will follow in the garden of the Allen home on the UCLA campus. Allens to Depart for Chicago, Washington. The wedding date is the eve before the Allens' departure for Chicago and Washington, D.C., with, their daughters Dorothy Teresa, a Las Madrinas A "grand slam" of fun is promised by St.

Anne's Hospital Guild members to those attending their summer garden party Aug. 19, whether guests play bridge or canasta or enjoy chatting over the buffet luncheon. The home of Mrs. Ralph Sweeney, president, will be the scene of the party which is planned as a supplement to the annual Christmas Bazaar. The card booth committee of the bazaar is planning the event under the direction of Mrs.

Edmund Schnieders and her cochairman, Mrs. George Whitney Thompson. Reservations may be made with Mrs. Thompson before Aug. 15.

Also on the committee are Mmes. Sweeney, Arthur Zwebell, bazaar chairman, and Mmes. John Aicher, Lemuel Bancroft, Earl Bannon, Omar Boyd and Joseph Boyes. More party planners are Mmes. Thomas Brant, George Breslin, Fritz Burns, William Byrne, Richard Carter, George Chester Clark, John Comton, Leon Doty, Charles Dunn, Arthur Gaines, Charles Getchell, Robert Graw and A.

P. Johnson. Completing the committee are Mmes. Harold MeAlister, Don Morrow, Joseph Novak, Francis Regan, John Roney, Ernest Scanion, Charles Swanton, Joseph Tanzola, George Topper, Milton Karl Weber, Laurence Weitz and Miss Eileen Jetfers. The linking of the two families brings special happiness to Hans' and Frances' parents, who have been friends since their college days at Stanford.

Before to Germany, Frances was secretary of the Associated Women Students. Hans, a Theta Chi, was on the Stanford crew. debutante last year, and Barbara Jane. On Oct. 20 they plan to go to Indonesia, where Dr.

Allen will be director of the U.S. Operations, Missions to Indonesia for two years. The Allens plan a family. dinner Friday to honor their son and his fiancee. Mrs.

Joseph Ciraulo (Susan Skiles) will be a luncheon hostess later this month at the home of her mother, Mrs. Jones Skiles of Bel-Air. Guests will be UCLA Alpha Chi Omega sorority sisters of the brideelect and her bridal party. Her twin sister, Miss Caryl Volkmann, the Nov. 7 bride-elect of A.

J. Carothers will be maid of honor, and other attendants are Misses Marianne Terry, Lynne Quinn and Mrs. Ciraulo, WHO IS TRUMPING whom here? Mmes. Omar Boyd, from left, practice for garden party of. St.

Anne's Edmund Schnieders and George Whitney Thompson, Hospital Guild Aug. 19 at home of Mrs. Ralph Sweeney, Times photo by Ray Graham.