HOLLYWOOD TO-DAY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 143, 18 June 1936, Page 14

HOLLYWOOD TO-DAY.

VOGUE FOR VIOLETS. (By SHEILAH GRAHAM.) It takes a professional model to show the young lady screen stars of Hollywood just how they should wear their clothes and hats, particularly the latter. For some reason, screen stars and chic don't often go together. Anita Colbynee Counihan —arrived a short while ago from New York 011 her initial screen visit, with an armful of the latest creations, and proceeded to show the admiring colony the difference between a hat and a chic masterpiece.

The most noteworthy in the collection is a small lapis blue straw turban, covered with reproductions of. the fruit, flowers and leaves of the orange. With it Anita generally wears a picturesque dress of blue taffeta with tiny white threads running through it, forming small squares. Large oval wood buttons of the same blue fasten the tight

waist. The sleeves are three-quarter length and the neck is finished with a quaint collar of white silk pique. To complement a white tailored linen suit, the screen actress-model wears a stitched line hat of the' same colour. The flowers forming the trimming match exactly the red of her blouse. As a final touch of smartness a wide?" meshed veil starts from the crown and continues to an inch below the lady's lovely eves.

This will be a violet summer, to judge from the way fashion-minded women — both on the screen and oil' —are using great bunches of the flowers for accessories, perfumes, soaps and toilet waters, and wearing printed silks with a violet design. Anne Shirley fastens a clever clip of metal violets at the throat of the dress when wearing her ensemble of black crepe and satin. A tiny matching crepe turban carries a bunch of tlie flowers as the sole adornment.

Ginger Rogers takes tilings a step farther with a toque made entirely of violets and a matching cluster which she pins to the front of her Ascot scarf.

Romanticism is the keynote of many of the smartest early summer wardrobes. It is apparent in diaphanous picture frocks, in hats, which have never been more fanciful or varied, in the massive effects of oddlv-designcd jewellery— in fact, it pervades almost every phase

of the mode with tlie old, but ever new, alluring temptation.

Brown-eyed, blonde Claire Trevor has

purchased a gown that definitely belongs in the "garden party" class. Of white mousseline de soie, printed in a delicate pattern of golden tulips and scarlfjt poppies, with a background of black and pale green, the bodice of the frock is centre-shirred below a fine, narrow neck ruff of white mousseline, full elbow

sleeves, and a skirt that breaks into voluminous folds below the knees. Two long streamers of yellow grosgrain ribbon fall from the narrow belt almost to the hem of the dress.

A Demure Touch. To wear with this gay dress is a youthful white taffeta coat that shows an artistic and skilful transference erf the printed material around the shoulders and down the sleeves. A demure turnover collar gives a slightly tailored air, while the flared three-quarter length repeats the skirt fulness and achieves the tiered effect. To keep to the print motif large scarlet poppies are bunched at the front of the simple white cellophane hat.

Seen Around Hollywood.—Loretta Young displaying her nfewest evening coat of grey-blue velvet, finger-tip length, with a very full, swing back, and a quaint "Margot" ruff of ermine for a collar. The fastenings are close at the throat, leaving the coat to fall open in front and are fashioned like two large marbles set with rliinestones. . . ROOII- - Hudson, indulging in a shopping jaunt, clad in a black chiffon wool frock, with a deep inset square yoke of pale pink eyelet embroidery, tight sleeves,

below shoulder puffs, and a brief slit on the left side that shows a petticoat of the eyelet embroidery. . . . Simone Simon, temperamental French cinema star and musical comedy actress who will eoon start work on a picture, lunching in the Cafe de Paris, in a street dress designed for her by the famous French dressmaker, Marcel 'Roclias, of

;htweight black wool, with wide lapels

trimmed with zigzagged pique in white. The most unusual item in the dress is :he numerous buttons, which are small

iilvcr crowns, four of tliem, marching ight down the front of the frock.