The New Movie Magazine (Dec 1929-May 1930)

The New Movie Magazine "One thing in the new mode that worries me is the general use of the skull cap type of hat. One must have really good features to wear such a trying style. For a woman with a bad nose or receding chin they are simply ghastly. I would advise women to study the new styles carefully, before they rush headlong into them. Study yourself first." OLIVE BORDEN, one of our most delectably formed screen beauties, who can wear anything and make you like it, is heartily in favor of the new styles, but just so far. "I am sticking to short sport clothes, because I think they are sensible and comfortable; the same goes for my street wear, with just a trifle added length. I adore the natural waistline and as for the fkted bodies, I have them in all my evening gowns. I like the floating chiffons, but I think the short in front mode that reveals the leg nearly to the knee is much more youthful than the long all around. I love the sophisticated and feminine tea gown. To me the mode is adorable, and I am with it if it lets me keep my sun back knee length tennis dresses. " SUE CAROL is all for the feminine fitted gowns, with long, long skirts. The softening of lace and the use of ruffles Sue thinks a great relief after the masculine styles that have been so plain for so long. Taffeta, moire, velvet, with rich laces and flutings, always adhering to the short in front effect for youth, is Sue's choice. "It's a little like playing grown-up lady to wear the new clothes, after the knee length things," says Sue. "I feel a little uncertain as to whether my carriage and dignity generally will hold up under the strain, but I guess a girl can do nearly anything if it's for beauty and fashion. Really, I'd hate to feel I had to have my street suits as long as some I've seen, for I like walking, and of course I shall retain short sports things, whatever the mode is." A resume of the situation leaves things this way; youth can still show its lovely limbs through the irregular hemlines and with the floating panels of chiffon and lace. The sophisticates rely on subtle and intricate cut and accept the styles entirely. Both camps seem to insist that we must have freedom of the she's when it comes to snorts. Came the Yawn (Continued from page 119) The stars do not have good times. They say so. But they are so inflated with their own importance that they don't know why. Most of them are ignorant, stupid, bad tempered and conceited beyond belief. And those things do not lead to sociability. There is one thing nice about Hollywood parties. They end early. The stars must be at the studios or on location early the next day or must preserve their beauty or must take one of those mysterious "lessons" that never seem to teach them anything. Yes, the parties LOOK grand. Just like seeing a party at the movies. Lovely evening clothes, even though the material, close at hand, is sleazy. Men, straight and tall and sleek and welltailored. Little rosebuds of girls or tall sirens of girls or graceful swaying girls or young matrons, according to type. They look all right. It doesn't seem possible that they could be so stupid. Take my word for it — they are. IN this incredible world there are social strata. Actually. The stars who arrived first, who quit being ham actors or shoe clerks a dozen or so years ago are socially above those who were clerks or parlor maids only yesterday. And stage stars, even though they were only hams on Broadway, feel superior to the screen stars— and the screen stars sometimes receive them as social equals. Besides the dinner parties there are, occasionally, huge "balls," again patterned after the "balls" in the movies. And the conversation is exactly like the talk at the dinners, only — and I hardly believe this myself — even duller. Then there are the luncheons. Once a week, if you are a star or a visiting celebrity — or a near-celebrity — you are taken to a certain famous restaurant around one o'clock. The street in front of the restaurant on this day is lined, three deep, with visiting sightseers, fans looking at their favorite stars. And the stars giggle and say "Isn't it AWFUL, the way we are stared at!' When I, in my Eastern ignorance, pointed out that, if they went any other day, they wouldn't be noticed at all, I was rightly ignored. Isn't life wonderful! THERE is dancing in one of the hotels on a set night each week or two — and again the populace is made aware of the night so that the stars may be stared at — at a resectful distance. And at the openings of the new pictures there are actually spot-lights and a man with a megaphone calling the names of the stars and others of importance as they enter the theatre. How the modest little darlings do edge their way into the spotlight for just a wee bit more attention ! 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