The Picture Show Annual (1928)

Record Details:

Title:
The Picture Show Annual
Date:
1928
Publisher:
London, Amalgamated Press, Ltd.
Volume:
The Picture Show Annual (1928)
Leaf #:
00043
Language:
English
Collection:
Global Cinema, Year Book, and United Kingdom
Format:
Annuals
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
January 01, 1000
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Picture Show Annual 35 The Queen of Make Believe Who has been to a fancy dress ball without seeing at least half a dozen exquisite costumes "wasted"?—the Indian slave girl is so flamboyantly the typist who catches the eight-fifteen every morning, the Snow Maiden so obviously the robust damsel who can whack every male in the club at tennis. Their fault is that they cannot sufficiently subject their personality to theii costume. And it is in this art that Norma Talmadge excels. Norma in a bouffant gown of stiff flowered silk, white wig, feathered hat and bare, gleaming shoulders is a Georgian lady who would have completely enraptured Gainsborough. With a Japanese costume she assumes the brooding mystery of a centuries-old civilisation. The calm serenity of the nun has little in common with the alluring red-lipped senorita of Old Madrid, and the smouldering passion of the Indian dancing girl seems far removed from the rustic gaiety of the mid-European peasant—in gala array, of course, for in the Land of Make-Believe every day is a festal day for peasants, whose crops apparently plant and hoe themselves. Yet all these widely diver- / f f As a daughter of Sunny Spain. On the right. Norma dons the holiday finery and spirit of the Czecho- Slovakian peasant. Above, Norma assumes a wistful serenity with the coif and veil of a White Sister.