HOLLYWOOD IN PERSON.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 234, 3 October 1935, Page 16

HOLLYWOOD IN PERSON.

SELECTING LUXURIOUS FURS.

(By MOLLIE MERRICK.)

Hollywood, steaming ana rod-faced, is going from one fur show to another, staggering beneath the weight of silver fox capes, Persian lamb coats, baum marten and mink topcoats, natural seals, cut Raglan, and the inevitable ermine and sable for evening. It seems a shame that furs must be selected when old Sol is at his hottest, but that is the story of feminine chic through the years. When Hollywood chose its furs from one of the largest collections in this country, brought with tremendous expense from the East Coast and displayed by the most chic professional mannequins of Manhattan, silver fox was the outstanding favourite. Nancy Carroll chose a pair of silver fox beauties to enhance her autumn cocktail frocks. From 5 o'clock 011 these days, 110 matter how much bite in the sun, you don your foxes to tip an iced glass. You may shove them off after a couplt of iced glasses, but you're thoroughly insured, so the careless gesture is quite correct. Ihe gown Nancy Carroll wears with this scarf is of porcelain white silk.ribbed corduroy with peasant sleeves. .The buttons of rhinestones and niarcasite are new and different. The skirt portion is black cheviot, and very severe in its effects. The turban of black satin strongly hints the Russian influence in its upstanding lines. J Frances Marion wore one of the unusual summer frocks at her recent musicale. Of green and white print chiffon it carried a rippling shoulder band of silver fox. Cut with a small godet train, the little jacket of the irock had a floating movement at the back due to a similar godet. Green sandals completed a most unusual costume.

Marlene Dietrich, at the same party, wore a very smart simple evening frock of black chiffon whose only ornamentation was a series of ruffles, inch wide and finely pleated about the ton of the frock and deepening to about six inches in depth at the ankle-length ending. Her only touch of colour was an emerald ot enormous size and perfectly round set with baguette diamonds and worn on a half-inch black ribbon quite low about her ncok.

Constance Collier has an amazing collection of lounging pyjamas incorporating somo unusual colour combinations, bhc wears them of afternoons about the swimming pool, and they lend cachet to any cocktail hour outdoors. One of the wul fc C k, lC , is ° f faded P ink crepe with a black stripe. It is made decidedly tailored, with patch pockets carrying m\erted pleats on the blouse. «.wwu an ,°, ther ° f ,narine bluc is niade with the blouse worn over the pyjamas and has a knee-length coat, very loose and Kaglan in the sleeves, of white cncket flannel.

At a recent luncheon she wore a blackprint two-piece frock with a touch of Venetian red 111 the conventional design, rile blouse was shirred cleverly into :i tie at the base of the neck. The short jacket was tailored as carefully as a cheviot would be, and the large hat of hK f " St, ' aW hnd tu '° c l» ills of black glaze thrust through its crown.