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PICTURES AND PLAYS.
"After All" a new play by Mr. John Yan Druten, author of "Young Woodley," will be produe ed in London, on May 5 by the Three Hundred Club, now amal gamated with the Stage Society. It will be the play's first performance in any country. It was the Three Hundred Club that originally pre- duced Young Woodley," the play that made the author famous Mis Auriol Lee will produce "After All," but so far the cast has not been definitely selected.
The professional, film makers for Judgment for £474 was given by the first lesson suggested a burle. Mr. Justice MacKinnon in the que on "Girl Clerka. Making a King's Beach Division for Mr. Wil Film," and coached them through liam Henry Baker, of Hatton successive stages. Presently they garden, in his action against the had discovered a director, Western Import Company, Lid, of girl with ganius for net-Wardour-street, concerning the film. ing naturally in front of the "Madame Guillotine." camera, a leading, lady who was just too self-conscious, a "floor secretary," who held a book open in ад official maaner, an assistant" who measured the paces, and a camera operator,
Where's the make-up?" called the "director."
No one had
white as snow or pink as roses. der-puffs until their faces were
It all went off beautifully. The "director" poured out instruc- tions like lightning, the assistant walked across the scene and the leading lady "fainted with energy sad flung up her arms.
Mr. Baker alleged that the com- pany contracted to obtain bookings for the film, of which he had the English rights, and to pay him a percentage of profits, and a sum advanced for expenses, amounting in a to £20.
The company asserted that the contract was ended, after adverse
leged that they received a warranty that the film was a new one, where. as, in fact, it was a re-issue of Robespierre," exhibited in 1917. Mr. Justice MacKinnon giving judgment, said that he had come to the conclusion that in substance
The artistic temperament has re- brought any, so they utilised pow criticism of the film, and they al ceived judicial recognition at Los Angeles, the superior court ruling that "a cinema star is not subject to the same rules as a menial," and awarding Miss Jetta Goudal £6,200 for breach of contract. The suit followed the dismissal of the actress for, it was alleged, indulging in a temperamental outburst while work- ing in a Cecil B. de Mille produc tion which has since been absorbed by the Pathé interests. Miss Jetta Goudal has appeared in White Gold," "The Road to Yesterday," The Forbidden Woman," "Three Faces East,' and Her Man of
War:"
...
"Love Lica," Mr. Laddie Cliff's new production, which had its first performance at the Gaicty recently, like the majority of musical plays past few years, is largely a dancing produced in London during the show.
There is a plot, with impersona- tions, jealousies, misunderstand- ings, and reconciliations, but the sharp-Principals and chorus dance their way through its undistinguished complications with upreme sue
"Now, then! Shoot !" The order issued, terse and ly through the misty air of Wimble don Common, a band of young women looked up, agony on their faces, and pleaded for a last chance and the camera-man turned
the handle.
Women clerks, for the first time since moving pictures have been in vented, gathered themselves to gether for the special purpose of becoming film makers and actors.
сезд
The scenes are laid--and very de- soratively-in Torquay and Chel-
sel.
largely to the lissom, long-limbed The honours of the evening fell young Australian, Miss Madge Elliott, who, with Mr. Cyril Bit chard, her tall, limber partner from "down under," brought down the house with their acrobatic and graceful dancing
Mr. Ritchard should, however, really do something about his sing ing..
Mr. Stanley Lupino's beaming good humour and India-rubber- like knock-about tricks were well to the taste of the audience, and he
Madame Guillotine was not A new film, but was a re-issue of "Robespierre." He was satisfied on the substantial issue that the
company were right and Mr. Baker wrong, and that there was a breach
of contract.
their own costs.
The parties were ordered to pay
"Berkeley Square," as altered for its American production next autumn, shown cat the Lyric Theatre, London, bad as additions to its characters the famous Duchess of Devonshire, Sir Joshua Reysolds, and the Duke of Cumber land. Although the plot was straightened out a bit, and was a little more clear, the impossible, could dramatise logically the story aven now, is not achiefed. No one'
of a man who goes back from 1928 and then returns from the Ber to 1784, meets his own ancestors, keley-square of Dr. Johnson's time to the Berkeley-square of to-day. The scenes do not fit. Still," Ber- keley Square" is much better than an ordinary well-joined play.
Members of the Association of the Women Clers and Secretaries have formed a film club. They have de cided to make their own films and produce them.
They will enact which will show the work scenes that the association does dad pro- duce it for the sake of prospective members; they will encourage hodding talent as scenario writers has a song." I Lift Up My Fingerformance of an eighteenth-century or movie stars that they may chand Say Tweet Tweet, which will serve among themselves. They pro- soon be all over the town. eured a suitable camera, a projec- Mr. Laddie Clif was inde- tor, and some rolls of film. Then they negotiated with one of their members who works in a British film firm. She persuaded two bright young professional flm makers to come to Wimbledon Common and give the girls a lesson.
fatigable, and Miss Connis Emerald deserves every commenda- tion for her all too, brief appear ances.
The chorus was one of the hardest worked and most effective seen for a long time.
It has two love scenes, exquisitely written and most exquisitely play. ed. Now and then it reaches litera- ture. Jean Forbes-Robertson re- peats the wistful beauty of her per- girl who meets & lover from two centuries away, while Leslie Howard, sensitive and attractive as he was, lacked the vocal beauty of Lawrence Anderson, his predeces sor. There was a special cheer for Marie Lohr, resplendent ar-Gains- borough's famous duchess. Some of the minor parts were played very amateurishly.
THE WOMAN'S CORNER.
FLOATING BACK A
CENTURY.
1929 TO 1829.
This season the French weavers and dress designers have looked back to the Second Empire for inspiration. This is most obvious in the materials.
Ruching is coming into fashion again, and we shall probably be wearing for both afternoon and evening, dresses with tight bodices and little stiff douces edged with little still ruches of taffetas
MAKING THE PELMET.
Window furnishings are always or stiffened muslin. Our grand expensive, but with eare you can mothers and great-grandmothers-make your own pelmet, which is wore much the same thing and con sidered themselves very smart. Sq will we this summer. There is a charming dress being shown in one of the big dress houses in the Rue In every dress show there are de la Paix. It is in a deep powder evening dresses and coats of fower-blue taffetas, with little. dull red ed taffetas and ribbed silks in flowers all over it. blurred patterns.
Gown of navy blue georgette figured with beige and red de- signe, double fared flounces.
Grandmothers' Capes Coming
In
the most expensive part about them. Measure the length of the win. of brown paper the length required dow from side to side, cut a piece and about twelve inches deep, fold into four by putting the two nar row sides together and folding again so that two cut edges and fold are together. With a pair of Back!
sharp scissors round off the opposite one of the collections they corner, when opened out you will were showing long, very full have a correct front pattern. Two taffetas capes, again reminiscent of straight pieces only are required great-grandmother to wear. with for the sides. various evening dresses. These Place the pattern carefully on capea were in two flounces, each on velour or velvet, whichever you edged with a wide talletas ruching. have chosen for your pelmet, and They were wide enough to wraput out, leaving an inch and a right around you and fing one end half for turnings. Cut a sateen over the other shoulder. There was licing the same size of the pattern, also a net cape with chenille spots Sew the velour to the buckram by turning the edges over and ber- A famous dress house in the ringboning so that the stitches are Place Vendome has a great many invisible on the right side; next afternoon dresses with bodices sew a trimming of gilt braid all
which was most attractive.
WHEN a poet does in for football, against his own best wishes, and a pretty girl keeps egging him on-then something is bound toʻrip. And it does in this most amusing picture!
Vouth tackles Romance and Scores a
Thrilling Victory !!
Youth
WILLIAM FOX "presents
WIN THAT GIRL
With David Rollins
and Sue Carol
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similar to the men's conts during round the pelmet about two inches FAREWEL). PERFORMANCE |
the time of the Second Empire. from the edge, hem the lining to The bodices fit closely till they the back, press on the wrong side reach the waist line Then they with a hot iron over a damp cloth. Aare out stifly to just below the The curtains should be lined in hips, the back being slightly longer the same way, but leaving out the than the front. The skirts to these luckram dresses are also flared and longer at the back than the front.
Flowered Chiffon for the Evening.
Quite apart from the Second Empire influence, there is one thing this season that every dress de signer seems agreed upon. It is
Now it is ready for fixing. A piew of plain wood about six inches wide, and the length of the window, should be screwed into the window frame to give the appear ance of a small shelf. To the underside of this fix a rod for the
the "floating" silhouette. Every curtain rings to run along. Set dress has something about it that the pelmet ready made on the edge: Boats. Panels; streamers, drapery of the wood and tack on...
Choose a contrasting colour or bows with long ends, anything and everything that will float behind perfect match for the lining and and around the mannequins as the effect will be good. they walk or rather glide swiftly
through the show rooms.
The slips, underskirts and of the same material will be worn foundations of the dresses fit very at the waist. The skirts will flare closely, so that they show off the out from half-way down the thigh, floating movement to its greatest and be very full from there down advantage.
The hem line of the day frocks i few inches below the knees in front. to the ground at the back and a
they are as short as ever, while the is, on the whole, more even, and
skirts of the evening gowns are still very long and full in the back and short in front.
Nothing Shiny in New Fabrics. This season almost every material used for day and evening dress ha a dull mat surface. There is The brocades that are being used and flowered chiffon evening dresses in the new materiale si de Chine, There will be hundreds of chiffon nothing shiny or metallic any more for evening coats are similar to seen in London next summer. The chilion, tussore and crepe those in the dress collection at the majority of them will have rather they all have a soft dull surface. London, Museumn. The colours are plain boaices with a very deep. The very bright colours of last softly subdued and, the patterns are round décolleté at the back, narrow season have gone and their place. small and very delicate, while the shoulder straps
fis taken by subdued colours; for texture is supple and easy to The material will fit very tight all pastel shades are fashionable manage.
ly over the hips, and a narrow belt | again...
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