FRILLS AND FANCY.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19062, 26 July 1927, Page 13

FRILLS AND FANCY.

ESTHER RALSTON IN "FASHIONS FOR WOMEN."

LIBERTY THEATRE,

"Fashions for Women," a sparkling drama of fashion based on the drama "The Girl of the Hour," by P. Armant and L. Marchant, is now featuring at the Liberty Theatre with Esther Ralston in the title role. Gay life and beautiful robes in the gayest of all citleß, Paris, forms the sub. stance of this entrancing' and most absorbing of all topical dramas. It is a picture which depends for most of«its charm on its centreing round a woman of radiant glory, Esther Balaton. The audience is amply satisfied that she should look what she is—a beautiful woman. Of plot .there is little,/but it is not missed. Celeste de Givray (Esther Ralston) has achieved the distinction of being the queen of fashion in Paris. A wily and bumptious PreßS agent, with his only motive the limelight of publicity, decides on a society coup, in which Celeste is made BUddenly to disappear, 'and then corno back to life in the midst of the fashion display.' The agent hires his cast, among others, a prominent broker, who has been ruined on the Exchange, and is only too glad of a job. Miss Ralston also appears as the cigarette girl of the Paris cafe, who conceives a sudden passion for the broker, who is, in Wb new role, an aviator. This, combined with the intrusion of the Duke of Ailes to claim Celeste at his wife, is destined to wreck the whole of the publicity's man's elaborate scheme, but the brokeraviator marries the cigarette-girl-mannequiri, and all is well. A slender plot is made into • good picture by an elaborate and gorgeous setting. More than that, Miss Kalston plays an artistic role, and the young Swedish actor, Einai Hansen, appearing opposite her, gets through a difficult part well. Raymond Hatton, in the comic character of the Press agent, is superb. How Kitty Shayne became known as the "life of the party," and then as a demure maid, and then to win the man of her choice is the theme running- through "Girls Men Forget,V featuring Patsy Ruth The man who thought her vulgar and base because she was entertaining, lived to love her. Alan Hale and Johnny Walker support Miss Miller in a good cast. A. Pox Varieties film and a News reel showing among other things Major Segrave's famous racing model, form good supports. The Liberty Concert Orchestra, conducted by Mr Ernest Jamieson, plays an enjoyable and well-varied programme of classical and operatic (numbers, included in which are "Consolation" (Tschaikowsky). "In a Persian Market" <Ketelbey), and "Gipsy Love" (Lehar).