SHORTER HAIR BOBS DISPLAYED

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVII, Issue 21529, 16 December 1939, Page 16

SHORTER HAIR BOBS DISPLAYED

Latest Trend in Film City Emily Moore. Universal’s hair stylist speaking: “Very much shorter hair this season, ladies, and dressed in upward swinging lines.” An oracle has spoken. The line of beautiful heads begins to form to the right. Each one in her turn. Scissors

fly. They snip, cut and shape. All the brunette, brownette and blonde tresses that have for seasons hung in great wads on lovely shoulders bite the dust and go off to stuff a mattress —or wherever it Is that all the unwanted lengths of hair have been going since that long-ago decade when Irene Castle blazed the trail to the bobbed hair fashion. Nan Gley’s long bob in “Three Smart Girls Grow Up” Is a very much shorter one now. as her fans will be quick to notice when they see her current picture. "Ex-Champ.” Brushed back .smoothly from a side parting, a few flat curls are arranged at either side at the temples. The rest is curled up and hangs softly down to about one inch below the nape of her neck Joy Hodges, one of the smartest dressed girls in Hollywood, was among the first to follow Emily Moore’s shorter hair prediction. Her front hair is now a mere three inches in length, which, tapered at the ends, is the ideal length and shape for cluster curls. Joy pulls that cluster smartly over to one side just above her right temple. At the back and sices her hair Is somewhat longer, but it misses by about two and a half inches what it used to be. Her back hair curls softly behind the ears and at the nape of her neck. Louise Stanley, one of Universal’s newest additions to their list of lovely players—and there are those who say she Is the loveliest—wears her blonue hair in the perfect sunbonnet style for "The Oregon Trail.” in which she is John Mack Brown’s leading lady. Parted in the centre and brushed smoothly, the front hair Is tightly rolled into two small horns on either side of her face.