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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLI, Issue 20440, 10 June 1936, Page 10

NEWEST El EM STAR SHE

cINEMA fASHIONS

QINCE the Australians decided seriously to take a hand in the great business of making films, Australian girls have come to learn that a prophet may have honour in her own country. And the latest girl to find this out is Miss Gwen Munro, of Melbourne, who was recently chosen by Cinesound to play feminine lead in Dorothy Cotterill’s “Wilderness Orphan.” Although Miss Munro is the latest Australian to be chosen for an Australian production, this is not her first experience at film work, as she spent a year at Hollywood recently, and appeared in the Paramount production, “The Search for Beauty,” which was shown in Sydney. She is not unlike Sydney’s own Margaret Vyner, especially about the top part of her face, and she is one of Margaret’s most adoring fans, which is somewhat unusual, as between one potential star and another. Racing enthusiasts will be pleased to hear also that she owns a racehorse, Sir Beresford, a two-year-old and half-brother of Berestoi, who is being trained in Melbourne. Miss Munro has what might be called a typical film face, which means that she has a mobile countenance, which can take upon itself any amount of glamour in a picture; and she also has the manner of a girl who is rather pleased with life, and expresses it with tiny bursts of joyousness when she meets people she likes. This characteristic, plus petiteness, pretty hazel eyes, golden brown hair, nice even teeth, clear skin, and five feet three of charm, puts her immediately in the class from which theatrical managers draw their winning numbers. Miss Munro has had a good deal of experience in mannequin work in Melbourne since her return from Hollywood, so that it was no trouble for her to pose in the pictures on this page. And because she is a cinema girl in the truest sense of the word, she was asked to wear clothes that any smart girl would wear to the pictures

Right: An unusual back treatment distinguishes an evening gown of eggshell sandara crepe. A finely plaited rouleau outlines the bodice to finish at centre back in a circle through which the two shoulder drapes fall in long floating panels down the back.