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MARY PICKFORD IN MOODS
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OF FASHION.
Mary Pickford, who is appearing in her frat. all-talking, picture, "Coquette," nt the Queen's Theatro, believes that the emotions of a dramatic scene can be accented by the clothing worn by the players.. In "Coquette" she wears five gowns, each one expres sive of the underlying feeling of the scenes in which it appears.
The frock she wears in the open- Ing. episodes in an orchid tulle dancing dress. The gay girlish- Hens of it expresses the buoyancy of the le flirt, who tells, each of her Southern beaux that he is "adorable," and then dances on to the next conquest.
Miss Pickford's" second evening gown, worn in the dramatic scenes of the country club, where she meets her lover," Michael Jeffrey, and goce with him to his cabin. in the hills, is subtle combination of naivete and sophistication. The shell pink satin bodice of this frock is girdled with vari-coloured ribbon, and the short satin shirt is masked by tiers of silver-edged net ruffles. The revealing maturity of ita close fitting lines is held maak- ed by its youthful bouffaney. In this expressive gown Miss Pick- ford, as Norma Besant, steps from
girlhood carefree
into tragic womanhood.
The apple green, printed silk morning dress, which she wears in the later dramatic scenes spells pathos in the youth of its fines. The gaiety of its colouring and the chic of ita design enhance the tragedy into which Norma wears It. And for the heartbreak of the episodes following the death of Michael, Miss Pickford chose a
NEEDS beige tailored dress, severe in its
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A dellente psychology of clothes. was expressed in the court-room outfit worn by the desolate little ennuelte. Constrained to pretend
WOMAN'S WORLD
FOR OUR LADY READERS.
New tweed" conta are cut a little longer now than they were enriler in the season. Here are two good models: one in brown speckled Scotel tweed trimmed with light brown fur; and another in smooth blue mixture tweed effectively decorated with strappings of plain blue and collared in blue-grey fox.
Wonien Dancer's Long Gowns
MEN PARTNERS ANNOYED BY DELAYS.
A Beauty Search.
WEIRD DEVICES AT HAIR-
FASHION FAIR,
guilty love to save the life of her father. Norma dares not wear
Many surprises await the visitor 'mournlag for her dead sweetheart,
to the Bairdressing. Fair of For this sequence Miss Pickford | The long, trailing skirts and Fashion at the White. City; Shep. chose a weed ensemble suit of bunely frills of the new evening berd's Bush, W., saye-a writer in marine blue with cuffs and collar gown fashions are provoking a Hame journal of mall week. grey for fur, and a girlishly simple | adverse criticism among women The most striking feature is the
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the costumes colouring serves to accentuate the pathetic efforts of
Noem to conceal her grief.
Miss Pickford branght Tour of the five "Cometjo gowns with her from Paris.
LETTER GOLF.
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the style to thentre-going women devices necessary for the beauti was described in the Daily Mail fication of
women. There recently:
machines which slim by masange, fracks in the new style are finding waving
Women wearing dance or dinner half a dozen different permanent
methods, that partners object to dancing apparatus for curing falling hair,
and weird
with woman whose rown is nt
Lavely models show hairdress. constant source of annoyance.ing fashions, from the simple colla Dancers have to halt occasionally for the ancient Greeks to a fun- while the trails of the woman's tastic colffure predicted for 1940. gown are disentangled from the Other patient mannequins aubmit feet and ankles of other couples to wrinkle removing, ice massage,
A teacher of ballroom dancing and hair tinting.
Although it is estimated that No wonuum cares to pay several British women spend nearly gulness for a garment which £60,000,000 yearly on hairdressing becomes shabby through sweeping and beauty culture, an official at the floor with each movement, the exhibition told a Daily Mail Gowns that reach to the ankles reporter that they are not taking and then break off into two or any of the elaborate semi-surgical three stupid litle trains are not treatments which American wonten suitable for modern dancing, endure. which demands dresses that do not encroach on the already mit jed space of dance floors,
stated:
"Women in this country," he said, "are content to have simple massage and mud packs and to use lotions rather than suffer face lifting."
The Marchioncas
Insuring A Smile.opening
Can one insure a smile?
It is evidently possible to do so in one sense, that of receiving)
1. The idea of letter golf is to financial compensation for the loss
Townshend,
the fair said: winh we could return to the period of ringlets and romance. The two go together, and we lost something .of romance when. women cut their hair short."
change one word to another and of it, because I have just been the world, whatever they are worth do it in par, a given number of reading that a well-known cinemato those who possess them: strokes. Plus to change COW to actress has insured hers for
in three strokes, COW,250,000. HOW, HEW, HEN.
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And when I see that kind of But the contract only provides fears to see a light flickering f
smile, I always feel afraid, no one 2-You can change only one for payment of the money if her the wind suddenly put out. For it smile loses its charm through is a tremulous, clusive thing, just | accident or illness.
as closely akin to tours as te tose their charm; at least not if
And that it not how most smiles laughter, and easily lost.
But when it does shine un
letter at a time.
-You must have a complete word, of common usage, for each jump. Slang words and abbrevid
Ytions dont's count.
4. The order of letters cannot be changed.
you take both words in their usual through trials and misfortune, j) is then that it is worth most to:
sense.
I would not say that the actresa the world.
in question has over-valued her: For it is the smile of pity born i smile, though I have not seen it, of suffering, of love born of the Öne solution is printed on for I know that there are smiles need of it, and of hope born of another page.
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1929.
Blondes Preferred.
DOCTOR CAN MAKE PEOPLE FAIR.
Nor York.-Dr. Yusaburo Noguchi, the Japanese biologist and experimentní zoologist," who is head of the Noguchi Hospital at-Beppu, in Japan, makes, in all seriousness, the nstounding nsser- tion that by electrical nutrition and glandular control, plus tha use of ultra-violet rays, he and his associates believe they could
at will change an Indian's colour' to that of a negro, and could alter The appearance of a Japanese to
hat of a. Caucasian.
But they admit that the latter process would take three genera- tions to become final.
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Dr. Noguchi has just arrived here from Brazil, where he has been studying the jungle peoples. He says he has formulated technique for changing the racial characteristics of human beings and their pigmentation after 15 years of experiments,
of certain
Altering Colour or Form. His method consists in the stimulation
gland Fecretiona and the artificial diminution of others, beginning when the subject is a' chilil.
In this way he can transforhi an infant, not only by making it grow up dark or light, but also by making it tall or short, broad or slender, as desired.
Under-developed children, some with distinct mental deficiencies, have been changed so as to grow up to normal youth, he asserts..
"Perhaps criminal instincts can be eradicated, the doctor suggests, Dr. Nogucht is pursuing his studies with the encouragement of subsidy from his government, He is now on his way home,
One of the season's most of-" fective styles is illustrated in the light navy cloth coatfrock sketched here." The deep V- shaped panel down the front; cut in one with the yoke, sug- gests height without breadth, while the belt at normal gives n very trim finish. The collar also is worthy of note.
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OUR NEW BRITISH CROSSWORDS.
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8 Labour.
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12 Huddled together. 13 Satirical attack. 14 Tranquility.
15 Biblical passage 10 Performer.
18 Poetical for the sun.
21 Very warm,
23 Pole.
Central point.
27 Pitcher.
28 Read with perseverance. 31 Glide away." 33 Draw from. 34 Every.
35 Ingenuous. 36 Secure.
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37 Antagonists, 40 Whole. 43 Unwell. 44 Tiny.
Assistant. 46. Part of the verb "to be". 48 Dull. 50. Foretakens.
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62 Bulbous roots. 55 Flows from volensoes. 56 Spring flower. 67 Wander.
58 Ire
60 Even.
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FIRST GERMAN
"TALKIE."
PRODUCED IN ENGLAND AND SHOWN IN BERLIN.
Berlin, Oct 28'
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8 Bull-fighter.
9. Evident.
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10 Musical Instrument.
17 Fling.
19 Drink hardl.”“”
20 Miner.
22 Planet
24 Venerated.
25 Is afraid of.
20 Bring forth a calf.
29 Sum.
30 Prevent from acting.
132 Entity..
33 Namo of a letter.
38 Substance
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39' Musical Instrument 41 Stud.
42 Kind of drum.
47 Pierce.
48 Tricks."
49 Caroless woman;
50 Elliptical.
51 Certain.
52 Beak."
G3 Song for.one.
54 Sudden thrust.
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ALL RED BUSES IN LONDON AGAIN,
FAILURE OF THE CREAM- COLOURED EXPERIMENT.
London's omnibusen.aro to be all- For Borlinera the promiero of
red once more. The great Skow- super film has become a society bald Experiment-red bodies with event of just as much importance scream upper-works-has failed.. the premiere of a great plny. This This is official, The LG:O.C. evening, however, the world pre-stated recently that they were re- micro of the talk film "Atlantic" verting to the old colour scheme. was an oceaalon of double impor- Lance, since it is the first talk film of the company to a Press repre- "Our main reason," said an official ever. produced in the German sentative, is that the public do not like the idea of any change. They have been generally supported by
Janguage.
The Gloriapalast where "Atlantic"
"We have been overwhelmed with letters of protest.
is being shown has consequently the Press, hoen sold out for days in advanco and the occasion was marked by a transmission of the "Atlantio" talk and sound on the 'wireless..
"In deference, therefore, to the wishes of our patrona, no mora ‘old "Atlantic, moreover, is of in Reds will be altered. forest since it is the first attempti Lo produce a "talkie"
"The cream and red buses will go in two
into dock to be repainted all-red." languages. It was produced at
In a lenderette published in "The Elstree by E. A. Dupont for the British International Pictures Day Chronicle on October 8, and Limited, and over a dozen well headed "Fog-coloured Buses," the known German actors and actresses change was regretted because "this spent three weeks in England to one touch of cheerful red, which react the film in German.
was adding vivacity to our drab streets, is to be removed, and for Fritz Kortner, the hero, in one of it substituted a characterless chade Germany's most popular actors who which will blend with or be indis- hna often taken the chief part in guishable from, our · November Shakespearean plays.
fogs."
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