Photoplay (Jul-Dec 1949)

BE JEWELRY CAN OVERDONE ! Ahl but what a far cry from Donna's daringly different modern gold . . . sprinkled with jeweled baguettes and rhinestones — in rich golden or silver bracelet about $3 earrings about $2 PIUS FED. TAX about $3 al leading stores everywhere or write to > david grad company 303 FIFTH AVE., NEW TOM 14, N T PHOTOPLAY MISS SWANK, INC., 1 12 Madison Ave., New York 16. N.Y. *T H RFG. U. R. PAY. OFF. COPYFTIGHT 1949 When You Go Shopping or when you are writing to the manufacturers of merchandise which you have seen featured in these Fashion Pages ... it will be easier for them to know exactly the item you wish to buy, if you mention you saw it in STYLE SHOWN IN SOFT BUR -MIL RATON CREPE ABOUT 4.00 AT YOUR FAVORITE STORE. FIT to be seen in... . . . with its delightfully delicate handling of val lace and sheer nylon pintucking. Miss Swank's exclusive straight plus • bias design molds to your figure-assures better fit, more comfort, smoother lines. Won’t twist, ride or bunch. 3.00 and up. large enough for dining, complemen 1 with chairs comfortable enough for dinj or card playing. Often, Dennis told i when he comes home tired and wants relax, he and Steffi dine here. Jimmy’s room is adapted to his schl work. He has a desk and a blackboa . And Julianna’s room is planned arou 1 her collection of dolls and miniatures, j A fourth upstairs room is furnished 3 a playroom. The windows are “curtains ‘ by Venetian blinds. The floor is coved with linoleum. The furnishings are sol wood chairs and tables. Also, a door 1 this room opens upon the outdoor stas that lead’ into the children’s half of 1> garden. For the O’Keefe garden is divicj by a high white wall. One side is the pis. yard, complete with swings, trapeze a[ bars. Here Jimmy and his crowd romp j their hearts’ content. There’s nothing tb can harm. On the other side of the w; , the path of the formal garden leads to t outdoor adult playroom. Later, Steffi ai Dennis plan to make this into a “soda” 1 ■ where Julianna can entertain her frien . I1NTIL I visited the O’Keefes, I didi L know that Dennis also is an author i some fame. When he’s not working in p:tures, he tells me, he uses this playhouse 1 work in. From all this, you see, I’m su. how completely this family lives happ together and yet allows its four membu to live apart as individuals whenever th so desire. There’s something wrong to be found every home, of course. At the O’Keefes, i the wall light fixtures. These side w. fixtures no longer are fashionable. Tab lamps are used for lighting today. A things that have gone out of style con to look ugly. Sometimes they come ba into style, as Victorian objects (to 1 distress) are coming back now. An electrician can take out such fixtui and tape up the wires so they can cause damage. Plastering or papering is the be ' ter way to cover the scars left by th< removal. But where fire laws make tl. impossible, pictures are a solution. Now for the changes I believe Julian will bring to this house and my reasons i thinking they will be good. Her miniate collection, and even the brush and cor set in her room, showed a sharp individu; ity. Individuality, I believe, is important j any house — so long as it is within t boundaries of good taste. And the O’Kef house doesn’t have as much individual; as it could have. Every person in this hot thinks so much of the other person tl they aren’t thinking about themselves. M O’Keefe is very beautiful and amusing a of European birth. Mr. O’Keefe is ve handsome, as you well know, and Arnei can. I’d like to see a little of this color contrast revealed in their home and a f< more expressions of their individual ho bies and preoccupations spread about. Remember this. Houses are just the 0 posite of well-dressed people. The worn or man who is under-dressed looks smai est. But the house that isn’t just a lit crowded looks just a little lonely. The End Photoplay presents A fashion showing — in color — of stars in their favorite dresses On display — in the November iss\ on sale October 12 102