Picture Play Magazine (Sep 1927 - Feb 1928)

48 Over the I'eacups iicit^" Esther Ralston has won a new contract with Paramount. colorful and interesting to see the girls arriving in velvet wraps that harmonize with their dresses. "The other opening was more thrilling, because the picture was a knockout. It was 'Two Arabian Knights,' and any one who misses that one deserves both pity and scorn. The premiere was one of those friendl}^ home-townboy-makes-good occasions, as every one had known and plugged for Lewis Milestone, the director, ever since he was a cutter years ago. Of course, he isn't reallv a local product — he's Russian— but he has been around the studios for so long that every one looks upon him as one of the film colony's own sons. "You should have seen the clothes that night ! Claire Windsor wore a cream-colored lace frock under a brilliant-green velvet wrap that had ^ a perfect shower of ostrich feathers for a collar. Gloria Swanson wore a dull-gold sequin gown and wrap, and the wrap was trimmed in sable. Janet Gaynor, as usual, looked adorable — like a little girl at her first party. Her dress was pale green and silver, and her wrap was silver, with a peach-colored fox collar. Rillie Dove was a vision in red — a dress of tulle and velvet, and a brocade wrap trimmed with ostrich." Camilla Horn, the heroine of "Faust," is coming over from Germany to join United Artists. It was all too apparent that Fann} had gone clothes mad with the rest of Hollywood. "Just once," she continued vehement!}', "I'd like to meet a girl in pictures who is frank enough to admit that she doesn't care what her films are so long as she can wear stunning clothes in them. I'm sure that, down in their hearts, lots of the stars feel that way. And, by the way, it seems to me that the very least Norma Shearer can do for her public is to make a fashion picture and display her own trousseau. I've never seen so many excjuisite things. "Lilyan Tashman, by the way, who has just finished working in 'A Texas Steer' out at the First National studio, has been engaged for 'French Dressing.' And iMadeline Hurlock has at last finished her contract with Sennett and is going to be in 'The Noose' with Dick Rarthelmess. They were in a great hurry to start the picture and were all upset over wdiere to get stunning clothes for IMadeline. Rut one look at her own wardrobe solved the problem. So, for once, she doesn't have to wear the creations of a studio designer. "There are just two girls I know of who aren't thinking about clothes and running round shopping— Patsy Ruth j\Iiller and Marie Prevost, who are both in the hospital recovering from a late separation from their appendices. "You can't down them for long, though. A few days after Pat's operation, when she was looking Cjuite wan and pale, she was already planning to join a dancing class as soon as she was up and around. I was trying to amuse her by an imitation of our newest .dancing group. Hedda Hopper, Ann Rork, and I are studying with ]\Iarshall Hall, who used to be with the Rolm ballet. While we don't quite go in for interpreting spring and all that sort of thing, we do run around leaping over imaginary brooks, and it is a ^ood thing we are all too busy to watch each other, or we might have hysterics. Hedda is marvelously limber — she is one of those strong-minded people who always keeps up their morning exercises. "Speaking of Ann Rork, she feels that she has reached the pinnacle of success, for the sightseeing buses that run through Beverly Hills now pause in front of her house and announce that Ann Rork lives there. She is no longer just the daughter of Sam Rork, the eminent producer, which was the label formerh attached to her. She has now risen to the dignity of being a personage in her own right. "There was weep'ng and lamentation when