Stars Search for Some New Ideas

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 92, 9 July 1927, Page 25

Stars Search for Some New Ideas

The “Stop !” Stocking ! WHAT THEY ARE WEARING Motion picture stars are continuously in search for something new. Their clothes reflect ideas—innovations. They introduced to the world the rage for rattlesnake shoes and rattlesnake Handbags. They brought out the rabbit’s foot garter, the stocking with the boulevard sign, “Stop!” They devised futuristic lingerie. Now— AiTette Marchal is carrying a purse made from straw, good for about three weeks’ use. Esther Ralston is wearing shoes with gingham tops in a dozen different colours. Florence Vidor is carrying plain

linen handkerchiefs, not embroidered or coloured in any way. Colleen Moore, Billie Love, Anna Q. Nilsson, Mary Aster and Lorothy Mackaill have foresworn the skin tight one - piece bathing suits and they appeared at a beach club the other other night

in the two-piece suits usually worn by men. Last year’s craze for painted pyjamas and beach lounging robes imported from Italy seems to have died a sudden death. In their places have come beach shawls fringed after the Spanish manner, solid in colours but varying in brightness. Natalie Kingston is especially striking in a maroon shawl fringed with silk and larger than the usual evening shawl.

Bebe Daniels, who has Spanish ancestry, also appeared on the sands with a fringed shawl and a two-piece suit.

New picture material purchased by Metro-Godlwyn-Mayer for future filming includes “Starlight,” Gladys Unger’s stage play in which Doris Keane played, and “White Pants Willie,” by Elmer Davis.

Walter Woods, new supervisor at the De Mille studio, has been assigned to oversee “His Dog,” an adaptation of the Albert Payson Terhune story. Karl Brown is directing.

Monte Bi'ice dii’ects or writes with equal ease, and he has written or directed all but one of Wallace Beei'y’s comedies, “Behind the Front,” “We’re in the Navy Now,” ‘Casey at the Bat,” and “Fireman, Save My Child.”

“Baby Mine,” stage success, and the play in which dark-eyed Marguerite Clark, later a famous moving picture actress, was first launched to fame, is to be inade into a screen comedy. Film rights to the play, which was written by Margaret Mayo, have been purchased by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

Jobyna Ralston, Harold Lloyd’s former leading lady, has been awarded the pi'incipal feminine role in “Betty’s a Lady,” a Gerald Beaumont story to be filmed under the supervision of Arthur Shadur, with James Flood directing.