ACTRESSES WORRIED

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 197, 23 August 1935, Page 10

ACTRESSES WORRIED

EFFECT OF COLOUR FILMS REVELATION OF BLEMISHES. Convinced that colour will revolu Lionise screen entertainment in the near t uture, Metro-Guldwyn-Meyer will commence immediate production of feature length films with, the latdst colour process. The company has made experiments with colour for the past two years. Both Clark Gable and Constance Bennett have been cast for the leading roles in the first of the company’s new colour series. According to Constance Bennett, the new era will make and break stars with the same suddenness as marked the introduction of “talkies.”

.All ideas of make-up now practised tur black and white pictures will undergo revolution. Bleached hair must go lir.'t of all, for with the new process it Inks like straw.

Artificial aids which now flatter the ambitious star before the ordinary camera are revealed by (the colohif e.amera as hideous fakes. Even freckles

and several cf the leading blonde stars have them —will peep out from under the customary layer of powder which has always come tu their rescue in the past.

Only the lightest, most rational pro cesses of make-up will find favour with the uew camera.

J'emulo stars aie mostly allecied by the threat of oblivion, but many men who erase facial defects in the dressing room <lo not feel comfortable when they think of the future. The renewal of a number of contracts has been held up in view cf the new developments. This may mean that new stars are to take their places.

Charles Laughton is a naturalist and on days away from the Paramount Studios, where he made “Ruggles of Red Gap,” he strolls about the hills making studies of birds. Incidentally, he has the title of Hollywood’s finest amateur photographer. His pictures concentrate mainly on bird and plant life.