FILM STARS’ HATS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 150, 27 June 1931, Page 6 (Supplement)

FILM STARS’ HATS

WHAT SOME WEAR. “Where di»l you get that hatf” That’s probably what you would ask your favourite movie star if you happened to meet him (or her) away from the Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer studios. Greta Garbo always wears a round, tarn, pulled down until a wisp of hair is showing. John (albert wears an old gray fedora with the top crushed in by hard useage and stuffing into bis ©vercoat pocket. Marion Davies comes to work with a sailor cap on and Buster Keaton may be seen sauntering from a hard day at the Metro-Goldwyn-Ma\cr plant with a white rap that accentuates nis swarthy complexion. Ramon Novarro invariably wears a green fedora, several sizes too small. Adolphe Menjou, ever immaculate, fav ours a smart black felt with turned down brim. Norma Shearer usually wears close-fitting Nile green turban, and Wallace Beery is seldom without his tweed cap with crumpled peak. Marie Dressier’s hats made her famous on the stage years ago, but in private she goes in for plain toques with simple ornaments. Cliff Edwards always wears his bats backwards and Hedda Hopper may be sure to have a skullbonnet pushed far back on her head. Anita Page usually wears only a scarf k about her blonde tresses. while Robert Montgomery goes hatless.

Wallace Beery, hero of “The Secret Six” and “The Big House,” was arguing about aviation on the MetroGold wyn-Mayer lot with Lieutenant-' Commander Frank Wead. “And some day,” he predicted, “they’ll have aerial kiddy cars for the youngsters.” Wead considered. “But how about the kiddies going astray?” “Sure—and they’ll have pursuit planes for the nursemaids!” said Beery. Eli.-.-a Landi, the remarkably beauti ful star of “Body and Sou],” earned her great opportunity from the American producers through her wonderful »vork in “Children of Chance,” a British International picture which will shortly be screened here. “Children of Chance” is an original plot, and supporting the beautiful English star is a cast, of London’s well-known stage names. Humphrey Bogart and Emrna Dunn arc included in the notable cast of “Bad Sister,” the Booth Tarkington story, which will be released in NewZealand soon. The leading roles are played by Conrad Nagel, Sidney Fox, Betty Davis, and Slim Summerville, and others in the cast include Bert. Roach, and David Durand. Bogart’s latest screen successes include “Devil with Women” and “Up the River.” Emma Dunn, who was for many years a Broadway star before entering pictures, has recently appeared in “Side Street” and “The Texan.’’