HOLLYWOOD IN PERSON.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 277, 22 November 1934, Page 13

HOLLYWOOD IN PERSON.

TORTURED AUTUMN STYLES. (By MOLLIS MERRICK.) Everything ruffled except the wellknown disposition is the motto of our autumn clothing.

Keep the disposition smooth, the face smiling, but let the dress be as tortured as it will—and this applies to every garment from your nightie, which may have a ruffled frill all about the train, to your afternoon frock and your evening gown.

If you are blonde, nothing is so nice for general wear as night-blue crepe satin, with plenty of ruflles at neck and sleeves. Glenda Farrell is one of the, most interesting exponents of this mode in her new autumn gown, which iias mousseleine ruffles done pierrot fashion about the throat, bursting out lower down in front to form a jabot, frilling the edges of the three-quarter length sleeves and altogether making a fresh and youthful garment out t>f what started to be a sophisticated frock.

With it is worn a beret of corded navy taffeta, perched at just the right angle. And this is the costume —of all costumes —which calls for pearl button earrings. Mady Christians, who brings much of the gentle charm of the old world with her to Hollywood, wears the most conservative and lovely evening gowns of any of the film colony. One, in old red Canton crepe, lias all the informal loveliness of the cocktail frock from the front view, but is utterly backless and very sophisticated with its long, slender peplum and train. A lovely buckle of star-ruby colour, set with rliinestones, sets off the tones of the frock. Mady Christians wears with it open-toed sandals of old red crepe and the sheer sandal hose which are at once the delight and despair of women. Bracelets of rubies and diamonds and clips of the same complete one of the most stunning evening ensembles whioh Hollywood has seen in many a day. Joan Crawford, always an enthusiast in the field of magpie colours, wears some black and white things this autumn which would delight any girl's heart.

For sports there is the black Lyons velvet Norfolk jacket, with a fine white plaid running all over it. It is made with a back yoke and inverted box pleats, with a fine-tailored skirt of soft wool finish in solid black.

Flat-heeled shoes in black patent leather have an interesting instep strap and are reminiscent of the Tyrolean shoe. A velvet beret, rather large and draped forward, is worn with this costume. The lapel of the informal jacket carries the inevitable gardenia—for Joan is one of the most enthusiastic sponsors of thisfragrant flower. Her bag is of black antelope, and when she is not wearing a scarf of white velvet tied high about the throat and filling the neckline of the jacket, she wears a white satin blouse, with a generous neck frill, which splatters all over the top of the jacket and fills in the open neck.