Motion Picture Classic (Jan-Jun 1929)

^ a 1 a r i e Shops Make the Parting Painless. Positively! innovation. Men as well as women. Bill Haines was one of our first customers. He bought any number of fine handkerchiefs and knew as much about the fabrics as our linen expert. And then he bought ;i large supply of chiffon socks." In the paneled dining-room a long refectory table is flanked by red leather chairs. "We plan to give luncheons and teas, later, asking this star or that ro invite her intimates. Afterward bridge may be played or a fashion ^how of the newest modes may be given." The Dry Shower IN the dressing-room are mirrors, make-up and a chaise longu with negliges, perfumes, satin mules, smart luggage placed lieguilingly about, price tags affixed. Here milady is privileged to repair the ravages of weather. Adjoining is a room which mcludes a shower bath. So far the latter has remained thastely dry. No visitor has felt the urge to take a bath, courtesy of Dyas. "Gloria Swanson came, looking at atomizers, the other day. Joan Crawford and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., have been in. stopping at the sixth floor on the way up to inspect personally rhe kiddy cars and toys. VVally Beery did his Christmas shoppinghere. Betty Compson has been in, and Don Alvarado, George K. Arthur, Clara Bow, Carmelita Geraghty, D. W. Griffith, Hoot Gibson, Marion Davies, Jack Holt. Cleve Moore and Lincoln Stedman, both members of the Thalians Club, were in, looking about for something for their s.p. I asked them if it was 'sweet precious' or 'secret passion' but they wouldn't say. "If a player with whom we are acquainted enters the store, the saleswoman who serves her makes her presence known to the floorwalker, who immediately summons me and I am presented to her, whereupon I invite her to avail herself of the privileges of our bungalow. "Not only that. When we know, say, that Jean Arthur is looking for something smart in aviation togs for a new picture, or that Hobart Bosworth is keeping a watchful eye open for a certain type of riding boot, and we get a new shipment of either article, we immediately telephone the player's home and tell her or him of the arrival. Or sometimes we have a sale of golf clubs, and I know Doris Hill is interested in them. 1 call .Miss Hill's residence and leave word so that she may come to the store and take advantage of the lower prices." Trimmed Even on Sunday OO you can see us motion picture personages are not of O the lowly herd. We are of the chosen few. The butcher, tFe baker, the candlestick maker, treat us with accord. P>en Jim, Hollywood's bobber de luxe, condescends to rnake allowances, and clips Joan Crawford's hair on a Sabbath morn. "Sure," says Jim, "she's a sweet lady, and I'm glad to come down on Sunday to give her a trim when she is working in a picture and can't get away during the week. We send manicurists and hairdressers to the studios,' too, to Hcrommodate them. And many is the night that we stay until seven or seven-thirty so that some actress can have (Covlivned on page .9^) One of the most notable of figures in the business of beautifying the stars of Hollywood is Jim -not the penman, but the barber. He is seen at the top dressing Eva Von Berne's hair. Below this is Robertson's department store, in downtown Los Angeles; and at the bottom is the dressing-room set apart for picture celebrities in the Dyas store. The two actresses succumbing to the department's assistant manager, are Doris Hill, on left; and Jean Arthur 33