1934-06-20 — Page 4

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THE FATAL SHAVE!

Here is a perfectly, new Holly- wood story.

Grover Jones, co-director of Paramount's Cap'n Jericho, which stars Richard Arlen and Judith Allen, was acutely in need of a tramp character to help populate a water-front dive- one of the scenes of the film He set out on a tour of Hollywood.

At least a disreputable, unsha- ven hobo hove in sight tnd was halled by the excited Jones.. "You want a job In a film?" he asked. The tramp scraped his chic. "Sure, who doesn't?” he replied. Jones handed the man a couple of dollars to go on with, and re- quested him to see him at the studio in two hours.

Two hours later, the character duly reported for work... But he' had blown himself to ¿-hair-cut, shave, shoe-shine and a clean shirt.

"

Jones started looking for an- other!

'GREATEST SCREEN

ARTIST"

Hepburn's Tribute To Garbo

and

New York Greta Qurbo is "incomparably the greatest" screen artist Katharine Hepburn is going to try to be a better actress.

These two bits

of information

were released by Miss Hepburn, in person, fresh off the liner" Paris, which docked here.

Feminine Arithmetle

A very handsome woman, that Mrs. Miller."

GEORGE RAFT'S TROPHIES

George Raft 19 wondering whe ther to give up the silver screen, and take to the sanded ring! Since he played the part of a bull-fighter iri The Trumpet Blows he has acquired · more ementões than in any other pic- ture he has ever made.

The list includes:-

1

A costly, hand-made, mata- dor's costume, imported from Splan and weighing 751b. A carved medel of a fighting bull, sent to him by Pepe Ori tiz, Mexico's star matador. who trained him for the pic- ture.

Two capes sent by Eduardo Castro, bull-fighter, who coa- ched hole caused by the horn

of a bull which gored Castro last year.

A small, hand-carved image

of a bull-fighter, sent by a

Bull-fighters' Soclety in Mad-

rld.

A Anely-wrought espada, or sword used for the matador's. final dispatch of the buil

A collection of bull fight pos- ters from the leading arenas

of the world.

AND

A small tin of condensed milk bearing the legend-From" Contented Cows!"

NEW FLOWER COLOURS

Mae West star of I'M No Angel -in collaboration with Travis Banton, the famous Paramount fashion designer, evolved a flower and colour list for this summer... And now their ideas are sweep- ing Hollywood.

Unusual blooms, such as nas- turtiums, marigolds and red ge- rantums, are already being used as boutonnieres and belt corsages by such stars as Claudette Col- bert, Ida Lupino, Miriam Hopkins, Mary Boland and Carole Lombard.

As for colours, Banton and Misa. West list violet as most import- ant, and see a blue craze on the 'horizon. Pink and grey will be a much-used combination, and pastels will be seen with dark coats later on.

FLICKERS FROM HOLLYWOOD

In her next picture, It's No Sin,

Mae West sings several songs

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20, 1934.

George Bancroft with Frances Dee and Judith Anderson Blood Money"

Coming soon to the Alhambra Theatre,

FROST-BITE CHECKS FILMS GLORIA SWANSON IN NEW

YORK FOR SHORT STAY

Check after check has been ex- perlenced by the Paramount News cameramen who are accompany- ing Rear-Admiral Byrd's expedi tion to the South Pole. and late. cable news announces tha: three "of them are down with frost-bite.

John Heermann,

"star" cs- meraman. actually collapsed while turning on, despite the fact that they

suffering from badly frozen limbs.

were

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COIFFURE AND GOWN

Sylviä Sidncs; the famous wo- vie star, la próbably the only art- tress to create a coiffure for a gown.

In Thirty Day Princess she wears an evening frock of black chiffon with a Princess, line, The skirt is simple and long, with a full, șingle ruffie around the hem. ending in a graceful train at the back. The neckline is high in front with double ruffles of black and white chiffon, and over the shoulders several deep ruffies of black chiffon end in a V-shaped decolletage at the back.

Miss Sidney realised that" with such a dress a special coiffure would be essential,

So she has piled her dark hair high. with just the semblance of a wave on each side, and a cluster of ringlets secured by a rhines- tonbow-knot perchéd flattering-

y on top.

Gloria Swanson, who has just MARLENE'S NEW FROCKS signed a contract with Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer. arrived in New York Thursday April 6th. She plans to remain, about two weeks before returning to California for her first picture under the new illation. The story in which she will be starred has not yet been announced.

Will Rogers, the old horse-trader of "David Harum," Fox Film's latest, does some stepping out with the comely assistance of Evelyn Venable.

clad in a jewel-bedecked white ELABORATE COSTUMES DE, THREE ACADEMY WINNERS

dress weighing 251b,

Henry Wilcoxon, playing Marc Antony In Paramount's Cleop- atra, boxes an hour, swlins an hour, and runs an hour each day.

Charles Farrell, who appears in Girl Without A Room, has been a devotes of crossword puzzles since. they become popular.

in

Charles Grepewin, who appears.

Faramount's Cap'n Jericho. is certified air pilot,

Duke Ellington's famous or- chestre is providing the music for Mae West's It's No Sin, '

W. C. Fields is to be starred by Paramount in his own story, Grease Paint.

Hospitality

Pat had returned from a visit

to the United States. "Did you "Yes, she is. But you should meet with much hospitality in have seen her Afteen or twenty America," he was "asked. "Sure," years ago, when she was teri years was the reply, "I was in hospital,

nearly all the time."

younger than she is now."..

She.

man's game...

played a man

...in a woman's

oman's way!

NORMA

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SIGNED FOR CHEVALIER IN NEW PICTURE

Ten of the most elaborate un- [forms ever tailored for a talking picture star are now receiving finishing touches, as the main details of the wardrobe Maurice. Chevalier is to wear when he steps before the camera, under Ernst Lubitsch's direction, for The Merry Widow.

The result of intensive re- search, the new uniforms are a blend of effective details of miki- tary garb of several European nations, the most spectacular of each being chosen and worked Into single designs.

Equally elaborate are costumes to be designed tor Jeanette MacDonald in the new Irving. G: Thalberg production. The most effective fashions of Paris add other European capitals in the period about 1885, in which the original opera was written, are' being Woven into dramatic gowns, with added touches from effective modern 'designs..

A

The picture being laid in Bctibus country makes possible this handling of costume, hair- dress and other details.

Research experts at the Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer studios are simi- larly choosing the most picture- sque architectural detalls of different nations for the elabo- rate settings for the pictures

Spectacular court cermonies, military spectale, gorgeous Alber- tina Rasch ballets and other picturesque embellishments are to surround the central romance of Prince Danlo and Sonia In the forthcoming production. ·

Unsubstantial

Litie Nelly had just had her first dip.

How do you Hke it, dearte?" aaked her mother

Nelly glared at the sparkling sea. "I don't like it at all,Mo- she replied coldly. “I saf ther

on a wave and went through,"

IN BARRETTS OF WIM-

POLE STREET.”

With there: Motion Picture Academy award winners assign- ed to the leading characteriza- tions. rehearsals on The Barretts Or Wimpole Street have menced at the Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer studios under direction of Sidney Franklin.

Com-

The award holders are Norma Shearer, starring in the film version of the famous Rudolf

·Becler play in which 'Katharine Cornell triumphed on Broadway: Charles Laughton, who plays the role of the elder Barrett, and Fredric March who is cast as the poet, Robert Rowning.

Miss Shearer

won the award for Divorcee: Laughton is this year's winner for his King Henry The Eighth performance and March won the year pre- vious for

Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde.

1929

the

In the alm version of stage hit, Miss Shearer returns to the sentimental type of 10- mance. reminiscent of Smilin' Through in which March also played the masculine lead The film, incidentally, won the Pho- toplay (American fan magazine) Gold Medal for 1932, and was ikewise directed by Franklin.

Included in the cast are May- reen. O'Sullivan, Katherinë Alex- ander. Ferdinand: Munier. Una "O'Connor, and others. *: Mias Shearer recently com- pleted Riptide, which is coming to the Queen's Theatre soon. Irving Thalberg is the producer

Ap. 2.

carnations.

The Wise Spender Cautious: please."

Saleswoman: *Scented scented?"

Cautious: unscented?

If you are in the middle of the annual quandary over summer. clothes you might possibly "be helped by the thirty or so new frock which Marlene Dietrich has Just ordered.

The most striking thing in the whole collection is the new train -new because it is achieved by an inverted pleat, that makes it. easy to handle and lends flatter- ing lines to the feminine güre.

Every gown worn by the star of The Scarlet Empress bears a train -hostess frocks, formal afternoon outats, dance frocks. So every woman who wishes to be in the fashion should practise swishing a few yards of material round her ankles.

"

Another point in the Marlene * Dietrich outfit is the startling fact that almost every costume is a combination of three colours red, black and white. Some are all red, sore all black, some com- bined of all three shades.

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SPRAYING THE MAKE-UP

Because of the large numbers of small-partP players--moze than 150-in Paramount's Mur- der At The Vanities, the head of the make-up department had to use a new type of spray-qun for- applying body make-up in a har- ry.

Under ordinary conditions one man can make up a film cast. but with so many working at once it was necessary to use the ney type of apparatus, which consists of an ordinary painter's spray, a tank of compressed air, and a Container of liquid body make-up.

The players, with the exception of Carl Brisson and other princo pals, lined up, the machine oper- „ator sprayed on the mixture, and the make-up man hurriedly pat- ted and smoothed it into an even tint.

PATRICIA ELLIS MELEW AYRES À LET'S BE RITZY?

UNIVERSAL PRODUCTION

HER NEW DRESSES

Judith Alleb-the "discovery". of Cecil B. deMille—who appears in Cap'n Jericho, is excited, over" her new outfits which have been - made for her by Travis Banton to

wear in future sims

20

Two of these are alluring negt- gees in the palest of blue silk, and then there is a most original din- ner gown with yards and yards of sheer mousseline train to set off the figure-fitting allk

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Miss Alen, incidentally, has just started off Hollywood on a craze. tor beach shoes with the owner's initials stencilled-in' white on the. brown leather.

VIOLET AND GREY

Mae West's new summer en- semble is inspired by one of the Gibson Girl costumes which she wears in It's No. Sin..

A simple and graceful frock of grey chiffon is accompanied by A. formal topcoat of heavy”: grey crepe with cuffs of blue fox. The frock is accented by a corsage of deep purple violets worn high at the neckline.

smart

Miss West includes a Are they cheaper grey hat with this costume, and wears the newest thing in gloves. violet, summer gauntlets, with a bag to match. This colour come bination" isaure, to become one of the classic Summer fashions.

Baleswoman Certainly,"

Cautious: Then I'll take them unscented my wife has a cold in her head"

DIETRICH'S FINEST-ROLE

Not since "The Blue Angel" has Marlene Dietrich had a role so definitely suited to her person- allty as that she portrays in The Scarlet Empresa, the film which reunites the director-Josef von Sternberg.

The story, which merges his torleal fact with romance, turns upon a mighty conflict between two ambitious women for power and rank.

*

The film has been adapted by Manuel Komroff from the person- al diary of the last Empress of Russia a diary glittering with persons and personalities.

Von Sternberg has directed this film with all his keen insight. and knowledge of human nature. Hundreds. or players move through the scenes of impressive pageanty as artillery ouncers,' bridesmaids, priests, inckeys," pages Cossacks, Guardsmen, diplomats and pegaants, and in one single' "shot,” more than 2,000 players were used,

The leading role opposité Mian Dietrich that of the romantic Count Alexelis played by John Lodge, who deserted his legal practice in New York to play the part, while Bam Jaffe, the well- known Broadway character ac- tor portrays the mad Grard Dake Peter.

The London opening was wit nessed with enthusiasm by many celebrities, including Lady Fur- ness Baron Frankenstein, Prince Bismark of Sweden and“. Miss Tallulah Bankhead?

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·MAY ROBSON, A SPRY OLD LADY

They call her the Grand. Old Lady of stage and screen. She has been working at ons, or the "other without a vacation for fifty. ‚ ̈years.............. more than fifty years In fact, for she celebrated her Golden Anniversary, as an act- ress, last year.

Her friends wonder when she is going to retire, to settle. back in an easy chair for the rest of her life, and, possibly spend the remainder of her days knitting mittens for somebody,

But May Robson, Metro-Gold- wyn-Mayer player," declares ahe is never going to retire.

Tt be in harness when I'm a great-grand-mother" is her boast.

and yet, It may

not be a boast. It may beɔà sane prediction.

Miss Robson, is a mother. Her son is Edward Gore, à New York broker-who, by the way," has", exchanged letters with his May every day for the past twenty gears. Mr. Gore has a son, Rab- son Gore, named after his grand- mother. He is now twenty years old-and married.

"And I'm hoping that before very long I'll have a great grandson," she says.

Age of

You ask me if this is not the Youth? · Fiddlesticks! There's just as many opportuni- ties, to-day to become successful, even, Í you have got a few grey hairs in your head, as there are for the young folks. The secret. la-never grow old, even if you're a grandmother or a great-grand- mother, which I hope to be. Grey hairs do not make people "old.

Why, I am happier now than I have ever been. Why? **/

"Because, as late as this to my life, I have found another "That's means of carrying on. the sad part for most oldtimers. of the stage who have slipped into oblivion. They have falled to find themselves in motion pictures.

"I am happy because I have never let myself be 89ped.” have never craved to be a beau tliud women of the stage. Even when I was scarcely eighteen, I played the part of a grand- mother.

"I have trained myself to play any type of role-a mother, a grandmother or an old maid Yes and I can even play great-grandmother on the

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The yeats, ma Abub

eat-grandmother,