Tivoli

Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 6837, 19 April 1932, Page 3

Tivoli

"DIVORCE AMONG FRIENDS.’ ’ A trip through Warner Bros, wardrobe department, during tho filming of "Divorce Among Friends,” would have amazed anyone unfamiliar with studio ways. More than fifteen hundred dollars worth of frills and folderols to be worn by Irene Delroy and Natalie Moorhead hung quite properly on their appointed pegs in the wardrobe, but the peculiar fascination of the display lay in the fact that all of them were made only to be ruined. Their fate, sealed ever before they were created, was that they should find a watery grave—not, even in good clean water —but in mud. Their name, literally, was to be mud. During that sequence of "Divorce Among Friends,” in which the leading players plough through a mile of mud in evening clothes after being attacked by highwaymen—Natalie Moorhead wore 950 dollars worth of finery —comprising a (100 dollar evening wrap of jado velvet and red fox fur, designed by Earl Luick, e refit or of all Warner studio costumes, a 300 dollar gown of green net and brilliants, ana a 50 dollar handbag. Irene Delroy’s ill-fated costume consisted of 300 dollars worth of white i'ox fur, pale pink velvet and blue satin in the wrap, and a 400 dollar gown of blue lace, satin and tulle. In addition to that her dainty rhinestone sandals, valued at. 491 dollars, were utterly ruined by mud and water, and to add to thy confusion she lost a costume necklace priced at 100 dollars. When clothing is to bo destroyed in a picture tho entire supply is made in duplicate, thus doubling the cost of tho scene. The same rule applied to complete outfits worn by James Hall and Lew Cody, who wero tho high-hat escorts of the bedraggled beauties during the realistic robbery in the rain. The screening for to-morrow will bo "Tho Man in Possession;” and a matinee will be held at 2.30 p.m.