The New Movie Magazine (Dec 1929-May 1930)

Their Favorite Jewels (Continued from page 31) "I'm not the type for jewelry," she said. "I love it, but I am so small that I think big jewels or heavy jewelry make me look funny. My clothes are usually in soft colors, and I like soft, fluffy things, so I do not wear much costume jewelry. I think every woman should figure out this jewel question for herself, and see whether they are becoming and fit with her clothes. If they don't, she shouldn't wear them. TOAN CRAWFORD says that she »J wears some jewelry every hour of the day and night, and Joan admits that she is both superstitious and sentimental about her jewels. "Since Douglas placed my wedding ring on my finger it has never been taken off," she said. "If my picture portrayal calls for an unmarried girl, I camouflage the ring with another, a bigger one with a stone in it. Next to my wedding ring and my engagement ring, I love an anklet of fine gold links with a tag, which has a love message inscribed on it from my husband. I think jewelry can be used in a most beautiful way to convey sentiment, and it is permanent. My anklet and my wedding and engagement ring mean so much to me, for they carry beautiful memories and sentiment. I also have a diamond wrist watch Dodo gave me after we were engaged which I always wear. "I love jewelry for ornament. Many costumes are made by proper costume jewelry, and I like especially heavy necklaces of painted wooden beads with woolen sport clothes. They add a feminine touch. Of course, I love real jewelry, but when I didn't have it, I found I could have very effective and pretty things in imitation, such as lovely imitation pearls and small imitation diamond lavallieres and pins. Often they cannot be told from the real except by experts and I think they are lovely for young girls, with their pretty soft frocks. TEANETTE MacDONALD, who is •J fast becoming an enormous public favorite since her work in "The Love Parade" and "The Vagabond King," has very little jewelry, and her favorites are brooches. She thinks they complete a costume. "Perhaps I have never had time to develop a taste for jewels," she said. "I like brooches because they are useful. I am especially fond of one jade carved pin I have. I don't like costume jewelry, unless the costume absolutely demands it. A woman has to learn to wear jewels gracefully, just as she does clothes. I've never had the time, nor the inclination to cultivate wearing them. A NITA PAGE is also one of the girls ■^~~* _ who likes her jewelry to have a sentiment attached. She says she is not exactly superstitious, but she owns and wears a gold chain bracelet with dangling "good luck" elephants. "I like jewelry because it gives me a grown-up feeling, and I haven't been allowed to wear it very long. The first piece I ever owned is a ring which was given to me by my mother on my seventeenth birthday — August 4, 1927 — and which had been given to my mother 132 Bebe Daniels' most highly prized piece of jewelry. This ring was made for Louis XIV. Coming into the possession of Lafayette, it was given as a token of friendship by the French general to Bebe's great -great -grandfather, General De Forest, of Revolutionary fame. A watch and a compass are incorporated in the ring, which has an outer surrounding of pearls. by my grandmother on her seventeenth birthday. It is a small square of diamonds, in a very delicate old-fashioned setting. I also have a platinum bracelet and necklace, set with small diamonds, which I selected myself and which I think are lovely. I'm only attracted to jewelry of a very delicate pattern. I think young girls make a mistake to put on heavy .jewelry." Kay Francis, a newcomer who has made a hit in the sensational success "Street of Chance," in which she played opposite William Powell, owns just three pieces of jewelry, adores them, doesn't want any more, doesn't care whether things are real or imitation if she likes them — and that's that. The three pieces, however, are of rare value and one at least might be in a museum. Kay particularly likes that, because of its history. "It stimulates my imagination," she said. It is a black cameo ring, over 2000 years old. Kay's great-great-aunt was traveling in Rome and visited the catacombs. Repair work was being done while she was there. She saw a hole in a wall and asked the guide if she could have some of the pieces for a relic,_ if she put her hand in and got some. With his consent, she did so and felt this hard stone. She was allowed to keep it and had it made into a ring. Experts have testified as to its antiquity and authenticity. The Metropolitan Museum has offered to buy it from her. She also owns two old gold bracelets, one is worked as a belt with a buckle, the other has an onyx clasp surrounded by small pearls. "I'm a gold person," says Kay. "It's junk jewelry, maybe, but it goes with me. I never wear platinum, silver, diamonds or pearls. I have some platinum and diamond rings, but they are in the safe-deposit box. These three pieces seem to belong with me and they go with the type of clothes which are most becoming to me." NORMA SHEARER loves jewels and wears them whenever it is appropriate. Her finest pieces are two broad diamond bracelets, one set with emeralds, and the most unusual piece in her collection is a pair of diamond earrings. "Of course, I love my wedding ring best," she said. "It is a small circlet of diamonds and I intend to wear it always, even if the fashion should change. "I don't object to imitation jewelry. It would take the eye of a connoisseur to detect the difference if the paste jewelry is properly selected. It is only when people make it obvious that it loses its beauty. I think there is no reason why young girls who cannot afford priceless gems shouldn't wear tastefully selected sets of artificial stones. "From the standpoint of proper dressing, there can be no question that costume jewelry has solved a great need. Diamonds and other stones worn with the sport costumes which are now so popular were terribly out of place and often spoiled the whole ensemble. Yet a feminine touch was still needed. Costume jewelry supplies this and should be taken advantage of by every woman who wants to be well-dressed." Sally Blane owns an unusual and very lovely piece of jewelry. It is a tiny novelty watch set in a crystal pendant, which magnifies the dial and hands. It can be worn with any daytime costume. FAY WRAY adores crystals, and has many sets of them. "I love them because they pick up the color of the costume you are wearing and seem to blend more beautifully than anything else. For the woman who cannot afford fine diamonds, I think crystals are the most beautiful thing that can be worn. Bessie Love doesn't care much about jewelry one way or the other. She has only one superstition — she has never had her wedding ring off, and like Joan Crawford hides it with a larger ring in pictures where she isn't supposed to wear it. "I don't care much about jewelry," she said. "Small trinkets that look pretty and maybe have some sentiment are all right. But jewelry of great value is an awful responsibility, and artificial stuff tarnishes. "I hate earrings — they annoy me — and I don't care for rings. I'm still wearing a gold wrist watch my mother gave me that has alreadybeen in and out of fashion and is coming in again. The only thing of value I own is a string of pearls and I don't wear that often. I have my husband's Scroll and Keys fraternity pin which I wear religiously, indeed, I never go out without it. Maybe that's a superstition.