HOLLYWOOD IN PERSON.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 198, 22 August 1935, Page 14

HOLLYWOOD IN PERSON.

BRIDES FAVOUR WHITE. (By MOLLEE MERRICK.) Ono of Hollywood's recent brides. Lyda Roberti, who eloped with Bud Ernst, has an unusually stunning hostess gown in her trousseau. It is of lustrous white satin, simply cut, with corded collar and eleeves. A wide stitched bolt at the waistline gives a smart tailored effect to the costume, and the long flowing skirt ends in a short train in back. This sort of robe made in any pastel shade would be n chic addition to your Summer wardrobe. But for brides, white is obviously the thing.

What next in Hollywood? Betty Furness has taken to glazed chintz evening frocks for summer and wears one with a black background and a brilliant flowered design. Unusual though the material may seem—and there's no denying that you instinctively look for glazed chintz in hangings or on furniture —you can get quite a stunning effect with it for formal gowns. Cowl necklines and skirts that are meant to broaden out in bouffant manner are assured of being a success when made of chintz, as it has a way of remaining exactly where you put it. "Society women are not so smart as working girls, when it comes to dressing," says Orry-Kelly, fashion expert at Warner Brothers studio. That's his honest, if somewhat amazing opinion. Why ? He can explain in a few words. "The average working girl has less money to spend on clothes than the wealthy society woman," he tells you. "So one might jump to the conclusion that it would never be possible for her to look as smart as her wealthier sister.

"But this isn't so. In fact, it's quite the other way around. The working girl's necessity for budgeting, being careful with her money, is in truth the very secret of her smartness."

Then Orry-Kelly explains that while tho girl with a limited income has to plan ahead and select every frock in her wardrobe with care and precision, tho a-verage society girl <sees a dress in a shop window and goes in and buys it regardless of the fact that it may not be exactly her typo or suit her colouring.

"If the woman of wealth doesn't get a compliment the first time she wears a. new gown, she will probably discard it and choose' something different," he observes. "Not so the working girl, who has to be eure a thing suits her type before she buys it.

"Duo to this fact the daughter of wealth is usually dressed becomingly only once out of every five times. That one time is when she hits it by accident, more or less."

Hero and there in Hollywood: Florence Rice, at a beach club, wearing a homespun blue woollen suit that just matched her sparkling blue eyes ._ . .

K.illoch, Columbia's fashion designer, predicting the return to popularity of both moleskin and sealskin, , next winter . . . Margaret Lindsay was seen on the beach in grass green linen slacks and a vermillion sweater. Very becoming and very chic . . . Una Merkel in a smart white silk sports frock, trimmed with tiny mirrors for buttons . . . and Katharine Hepburn in one of the smartest riding costumes seen in town those many days. Black twill jodphurs and a white silk blouse, over which she wears a sleeveless white suede vest. *