HOLLYWOOD TO-DAY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 113, 14 May 1936, Page 14

HOLLYWOOD TO-DAY.

NEW PLAY SUITS. PHOTOS. ON HANDKERCHIEFS. (By SHEILAH GRAHAM.) Sports clothes items from the wardrobes of stars . . . Marian Marsh, Hollywood's number one outdoor girl, favours a smart culotte skirt of rough white silk and a sweater of white wool when addressing a golf ball. On the. tennis court Marian wears play suits in gay patterns; shorts and shirts; or a culottf; skirt and sweater. For beach use, the blonde actress always select« white, turquoise or light green one-piece satin lastex suits. Browsing through Grace Moore's wardrobe shortly before she left Hollywood, the writer found several of her favourite shirtmaker type of frock styled in linen and silk. To keep these costumes gay and interesting the singer has purchased many novelty accessories and brilliant scarves and handkerchiefs. These she

! will combine from time to time to make these simple dresses suit her own particular personality. Hiss Moore also goes in for calotte dresses, and owns literally dozens of them. These culottes are in many weaves of sHk and cotton, both monotone and figured, and in every shade of the rainbow, with her two favourite colours predominating—white and French 'blue. Credit for being the best-dressed film star of the week goes to the beautiful British Madeleine Carroll, who was seen at luncheon wearing a spring suit fashioned of black satin with a narrow clinging skirt and peplum jacket trimmed with white ruching around the throat and front of jacket. A wide belt of the same material held the jacket, under which no blouse was worn. Black accessories—shoes, hat of cellophane straw, and a fox scarf—completed the attractive ensemble. When Fay Wray sailed to join her husband in Nassau after completing her picture, she took with her a varied selection of Hollywood sports clothes. Her bathing suit of cinnamon brown lastex is a perfect accessory to suntanned skin. Fay is another film star booster for the culotte frock, but hers are fashioned of shark skin, streetfashion, so, that they answer the purpose of active sports when worn with separate blouses and sweaters, and street costumes when completed by a blouse, jacket and hat. Handkerchief photographs are the last word in sartorial splendour. Madge Evans hit upon the idea while searching for an unusual type of handkerchief toi add to the large collection of Uua Merkel. Madge, who in her spare moments igi quite an amateur photographer, decided to experiment by sensitising a linen handkerchief and developing one of her negatives on this fabric instead of on paper. For her initial experiment Madge fashioned a sports handkerchief carrying the portraits of her four pets, two Scotties and two Pekingese. Pier latest contribution to the world of art-cum-fashion is an interesting scenic design that appears only in the corners of the linen square. Passing Glimpses. Seen around Hollywood and its environs was Jeanette Mac Donald, enjoying a brief holiday at Palm Springs, wearing a glossy, rubberised satin bathing suit in pure white. Across the satin in a conventional form of design were painted desert scenes, towering Joshua [ trees and sleepy little sombreroed figures. The entire pattern was done by hand in waterproof colouring. To go with the picturesque costume, Jeanette carried a robe of linen, printed in a serape design and a huge sombrero of "braided cellophane. At the same resort were Betty Furness, clad in a smart pair of culottes in Schiaparelli's newspaper print, and Maureen O'Sullivan gamboling in the sun wearing a chintz playsuit. Both models were trimmed with ball fringe, until now used exclusively for drapery purposes. Joan Crawford was lazing around her home pool, wearing a fish net skirt over a bright coloured bathing suit, in handknotted one inch squares. Fashioned slim at the hips, the skirt flares toward the hemline, where gay little corks were fastened in a profusion of colours. A draw-string at the waist repeated the colour in its braid. Gail Patrick gave her Easter topcoat a preview on Wilshire Boulevard — a natural coloured cashmere coat, generously trimmed with wolf fur, the hat covering her dark locks of the same colour, accentuated in dark brown grosgrain ribbon to match the frock and accessories