SNAPSHOTS OF LIFE IN HOLLYWOOD TO-DAY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 175, 25 July 1940, Page 14

SNAPSHOTS OF LIFE IN HOLLYWOOD TO-DAY.

A Turban To Match Your Hair.

(Bv SHEILAH GRAHAM.)

Xo. Dorothy Lamour does not wear a sarong when she dances at local night

spots. She goes native in another sort of way. Her favourite Rhumba is of quaint, dotted Swiss muslin in red and white. The skirt features twelve flounces. The bodice is outlined in narrow ruffles. The waistline is snug.

Another evening frock in Dorothy's wardrobe is of white silk voile. Simplydesigned, it has a voluminous skirt which alternate* white voile with wide rows of printed silk crepe in a tropical flower motif. At the waistline a sash of the printed fabric ties in an oldfashioned bow. Short puffed sleeves and a low neckline are important details.

Miss Lamour also has gardening togs —of blue denim in a one-piece shorts costume with big pockets for gardening

tools or cut flowers. The* peasant type braid is in colourful red embroidery. And there is an apron and skirt combipation in wrap-around arrangement, which ties on over the shorts—when the wearer gets cold!

And while on the subject of Dorothy, I recently saw her at the Brown Derby in a navy blue sheer outfit with pockets on the dress and a bolero of pimento red cording. The dress had a slightly flared skirt, plain bodice, high, rounded neckline, and short sleeves. Her white straw hat had a red veil and large red grosgrain bow in front. Pimento red gloves and bag, and black patent leather pumps completed the ensemble.

and beige checked jacket, heavy silk blouse of beige, burnt brown accessories, and beige vagabond felt hat. (Jail Patrick dancing at the Ambassador in a gown of mousseline and jersey —the full skirt of white mousseline; the bodice of black jersey, the V-neckline marked by a diamond lmwknot clip. Mrs. Walt Disney at Pciino's Sky Room wearing a street-length ensemble —powder blue dress and matching coat of a light-weight wool. With the outfit went a matching powder blue straw hat. At Giro's . . . Virginia Bruce in a dotted organdie pinafore formal in red and white, with a voluminous skirt. . . . Olivia de Havilland dancing in a white cotton seersucker formal, featuring countless shades of green, in an oceanwave pattern, aud trimmed with white pique. . . . Fannie Brice in a dark green sheer dinner gown with tightfitting sleeves and a high, rounded neckline. . . . Mrs. Buster Collier in a black crepe gown with a flaring skirt patterned in American Beauty Hose design. . . . Maureen < ("Sullivan at the beach in a tailored beige crepe black suit, with red blouse and red turban.

Orry-Kelly has designed a new shirtwaist bouffant formal for Bette Davis. The voluminous .skirt is in stiff white pique; the shirt is black linen; the sash, jade green velvet, is tied with a small

back bow, the ends as streamers to the hemline. Also a large red suede hat with matching bag that Bette will wear with a soft black suede dress utterly plain and simple. Black and white Tahitian printed slacks in tie silk, a black felt bolero, and a white dimii stock at the throat. A novel lapel pin —a small platinum sundial surrounded with a frame of diamonds. A turban in soft "hair" straw, the exact colour of Bette's own crowning "lory, completely hiding her hair, and, like the latter, is pulled back and tied in a nape chignon. Back from a shopping spree in Xew York, Miriam Hopkins is topping her locks with a high postillion in Scottish plaid taffeta, with a snood of'green mesh veiling. To match the hat is a large plaid purse with a clasp true to the Scottish theme —two little bagpipes in white ivory, leather and plaid.

A smart new ensemble owned by Gracie Allen consists of a beige flannel skirt with big pockets, a burnt brown