SNAPSHOTS OF LIFE IN HOLLYWOOD TO-DAY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 4, 6 January 1938, Page 13

SNAPSHOTS OF LIFE IN HOLLYWOOD TO-DAY.

Stars Hide Beneath A Mist of Veils.

(By SHEILAH GRAHAM.)

This ia the veil season with a vengeance, and every hat on every Hollywood star flaunts something unusual in this line.

Joan Perry decorates a teatime hat with a veil crossing in back and folding over the shoulders, shawl fashion, and caught at the decolletage edge bv two matching velvet bows. With this," Joan wears a simple black crepe and satin gown.

June Lang prefers a long-mesh veil which hangs either from the back of her "halo" filigree-patterned hat or is tied at the front under the chin. '

At a recent art exhibition, Irene Dunne wore aji evening suit of dark blue velvet, the coat, made bolero style, revealing a wide sash of Burgundy crepe. A small blue velvet cap with a veil of Burgundy and Burgundy velvet accessories completed Miss Dunne'e ensembje.

Milo Anderson has designed all-cloth, j heel-less, soleless slippers for Olivia de | Havilland (as worn in the days of I "Robin Hood") to accompany hostess gowns or lounging pyjamas. Fashioned | of velvet and brocade, the slippers have ' pointed toes, shanks that fit over the : ankles and fasten with jewelled clasps. ' And they're very comfortable. [ Rosalind Russell wears a "tur-band" of ermine with her black velvet dinner gowns. Three inches wide and fitting tightly around the head, the ermine conies to a decidfed point at centre front. Jane Bryan is ready to greet the first rainy California day in a well-matched ensemble, consisting of zippered boots and umbrella, both edged in blue plaid rubberised fabric, and fitted princess coat of the plaid, which has a little shoulder cape of self-material.

Joan Blondell recently purchased anattractive and useful short baronduki jacket with Hunter's green broadcloth skirt, which can be zippered off and on, making, coat-dress* The jacket can also be worn >with odd dresses, or with a flared? skirt banded in fur for ice-skating occasions. & ' *

Best dressed actress of the week . Lupe Velez leaving for Mexico City to make a picture, wearing a smart dull green tweed suit, with short jacket, slightly puffed sleeves, a satin belt at the back and three buttons in front. The simple skii-t, with two rows of stitching down the front, was topped with a black surah blouse. Lupe carried a coat in black and white diagonal tweed. Accessories were a sports hat of dull green felt, black suede oxfords, gloves and i purse.

The fashion parade . . .. at Billie Burke's party honouring daughter Patricia's 21st birthday—Miss Burke in a black velvet period gown with lowsquare decolletage; Patricia in a royal blue tulle gown with- very full skirt, the bodice trimmed with matching sequins and panels of sequins on the skirt; Mary Rogers in form-fitting white crepe; Virginia Bruee in floating grey

chiffon gown . Ida "Lupino at a broadcast in a black crepe dress with four rows of black fringe and tall blati felt hat.

[ Clatidette Colbert attending a preview in black form-fitting coat trimmed with Persian lamb . . . Helen Vinson at a cocktail party in a grey plaid three-piece suit.; Gloria Stuart in black monkey-fur jacket and hat and dark green woollen dress . . . Ida Cantor at Eddie's testimonial banquet at the Coconut Grove in a scarlet velvet gown with white orchid corsage; Mrs. Darrvl Zanuck in dusky turquoise crepe gown with beaded bolero jacket; Ruby Keeler in black quilted satin gown and mink coat; Margo in silver cloth; Elaine Barrie in beige beaded gown with a horned-halo of the beads; Mrs. Mervyn Leßov in black chiffon full-skirted gown over pale pink.