Screenland (Oct 1923-Mar 1924)

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or our FILM STARS ^-Nearly every screenplay reveals the over-dressing and atrocious taste of our screen players fLJulia Faye shouldn't wear knickerbockers for golfing and shouldn't affect strings to woolen stockings. C Why should Virginia Valli try to dress like a polar bear? The correct place for fur is on evening wraps. carries everything from the Star of Bethlehem to popcorn. There is no mystery about the fact that she is a man-hunter. The average masculine human being would prove remarkably fleet of foot if he met her in real life. At least the type of man the vampire wants to get. sun. The most fastidious man might invite her home to dinner. And his wife could not say "Where did you get her?" But the vampire is not the only woman on the screen who wears the wrong clothes or allows her clothes to wear the woman. Not long ago I saw a screen actress playing golf in the sheerest of batiste frocks without a petticoat. There was nothing under it in fact but the silhouette. And that was very unlovely. Another star in a recent production played eighteen holes in knickerbockers. I cannot begin to count the film golfers who have started for the links with ribbons, sashes or a scarf floating in the breeze. Walton again, this time vio lat in g the rule that a worn a n's back should be dressed even if it is the most beautiful in the world. G, Golf and Flying Ribbons I How the Deadly Siren Looks N reality the deadliest siren is the perfectly dressed woman whom a man can take home and introduce to his wife without exciting suspicion. Barbara La Marr as she will appear in The Eternal City is my idea of the vampire who dresses her body correctly. She will wear a lady's clothes. Her costumes will be black but they will not be decorated with everything under the • olf is a game of concentration. A true sportswoman never has anything flying in her face when she is trying to send oft' a golf ball. The correct costume has a narrow skirt, neither reaching to the ankles nor climbing to the knees. If the golfer has very slim ankles the hem may be nine or ten inches from the ground. The very short skirt, however, was never designed for the woman with fat calves. Sweaters may be worn if one likes them. A one-piece dress with collars and cuffs of the sheerest 27