Fashions of 1934 (Warner Bros.) (1934)

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Exploitation \Va DRESS-DESIGNING CONTEST Every gal who goes in for style, will go hard after this contest. It’s a perfect tie-in with the theme of the picture. Orry-Kelly, Warner Bros.’ fashion expert, in designing gowns for ‘‘Fashions,’’ utilized many of the details of ancient costumes. Jontestants are given sketches of those same old garments and offered prizes for the best modern dress designed from it. Prizes may be promoted or offered by the theatre in cooperation with the newspaper. As a special inducement, announce that the winning designs will be forwarded to Orry-Kelly for use in Warner Bros.’ next big production. Department stores or women’s wear shops will be willing to join forces in return for rights to the designs submitted for window display and lob by and story credit. (First Day Story) Fame And Fortune For Style Experts Here’s your chance at fame, you fashion experts! Here’s your one big opportunity to set the style instead of following it! And here’s how to do it: The Evening Times, in coopera tion with the Strand Theatre, is offering prizes to the best design for a gown, based on the accompanying picture of Richelieu’s costume, If you don’t know how styles are created, we’ll let you in on a little secret! Many fashions ereated by leading Parisian de signers are exact duplicates of ancient costumes. The latest example of that is the Empress Eugenie hat, copied directly from the hat worn by this famous empress nearly a century ago. Orry-Kelly, well known Warner Bros. fashion creator, has used this same method in designing gowns for ‘‘Fashions of 1934,’’ using the costume of Richelieu as the basis for one of the smart frocks. The Evening Times and Strand Theatre are offering $50 for the best design, $25 for the second best, and $10 for third. OrryKelly and the Warner Bros. studio in Hollywood reserve the right to use any acceptable designs in future Warner productions. nnn nnenes Judges in the contest will be the fashion editor of the Times, . ete, ‘Fashions of 1934,’’ now at the Strand, features 10 stars, 200 Busby Berkeley fan dancers and a lavish fashion parade. William Powell, Bette Davis and Verree Teasdale are the headliners of the cast. Mats in this Contest: No. 69 — 15c (Second Day Story) Prizes Await Best Designs For Gowns Are you finished with your de sign for the Richelieu costume? Good fun, isn’t it? Well, here’s your second chance at those prizes, and at a chance for fame fortune as a fashion-creator, The Evening Times, in cooperation with the Strand Theatre, is and offering prizes to the best design of a gown, using the Tyrolean mountain climber’s costume as a basis. If you’re working on a design for Richelieu’s costume, illustrated yesterday, you may still design one from this costume. The more the merrier! Orry-Kelly, well-known Warner fashion designer, has used this same method in designing gowns for ‘‘Fashions of 1934.’’ The costume illustrated here is only one of those which he used to develop creations for the picture. Try your hand at this fascinating sketching, and incidentally, take a shot at the prizes. You have only two more days left, as all entries must be in before (date). The Evening Times and Strand Theatre are offering $50 for the best design, $25 for second best and $10 for third. Orry-Kelly and the Warner Bros. studio in Hollywood reserve the right to use any acceptable designs for frocks in future Warner productions. ‘¢Fashions of 1934,’’ is a laugh provoking comedy, starring William Powell, Bette Davis, Verree Teasdale, Frank McHugh and Hugh Herbert, besides 200 Busby Berkeley fan dancers and a mammoth fashion parade. It is coming to the Strand on (date). (Third Day Story) Win Big Prizes For Designing Dresses Last call All aboard! If you want to get in -on those swell prizes being offered to local fashion-designers, here’s your last chance! So get that pencil sharpened, and get to work on the final design in this contest which has taken Akron by storm! The Evening ‘Times, and Strand Theatre, you know, offering prizes to the .best designs, a George Washington for a stylish the are using this, eape as the basis vown. Orry-Kelly, well-known Warner fashion-designer, hag used this same method in designing gowns for ‘*Fashions of 1934.’’ The costume illustrated here is one which he developed into a beautiful frock, Try your hand at designing a gown. All entries must be in before tomorrow morning. The Evening Times and the Strand Theatre are offering $50 for the best design, $25 for the second best, and $10 for third. Orry-Kelly and the Warner Bros. studio in Hollywood, reserve the right to use any acceptable designs for gowns in their forthcoming productions, ‘Fashions of 1934,’’ is the fastest, funniest comedy to come out of Hollywood this year, featuring spectacle scenes such as ‘The Symphony of Living Harps,’’ ‘‘The Fan Dance’’ and the magnificent fashion parade. The picture is coming to the Strand Theatre on (date), featuring William Powell, Bette Davis, Frank MeHugh and many others, DEG E SB GGGELO ORO AIAN IAA AAAI ABA SAAB IEE RDOD PUTTING OVER THE STAR AND STORY: Super-Salesmen’s Contest This contest for super-salesmen should give rise to lots of novel and amusing ideas. ‘Two contest stories and a suggested still give you your line-up and should help in catching the fancy of your newspaper readers. Sell ’em! Order Still No, Powell 57 William Powell, star of First National’s musical extravaganza, “Fashions of 1934’ now at the Strand, has quite a reputation as a salesman. He can sell anything, his friends swear, and he often does just that. Can you better his talks? Write in and tell us how you would sell hole-less doughnuts or anything else equally useless. It’s easy to write—I1 page is all the speech need take—and you'll have lots of fun doing it. Start now—aond make it loud and funny! STORIES SELL IT! Salesmen! Can You Match Bill Powell For Crazy Schemes? Hole-less doughnuts, sole-less shoes, toothless combs! The less the better—and funThink of something silly important, nier! and convince some sappy prospect that it is vital to his welfare to fall for DIZZY SALES TALK! Maybe your grandfather was the man who first went into your the straw hat business with Ad miral Peary! Go him one better! (LIST CONDITIONS AND PLAY DATES HERE!) If you can beat William Powell’s sales ideas which he shows in ‘¢HWashions of 1934,’’ the new hit at the Strand, you’re a better man than he is! He’s the one you know who thought of selling unborn ostrich plumes to a world of fashion. Can you beat that one? Local Developments Will Super-Salesmanship Pays Big Dividends To Strand Patrons Could you dispose of a car-load of slightly used mock-turtle soup cans in three days? Can you sell an autographed edition of your telephone directory to the Mayor of Rotterdam as a priceless bit of contemporary Americana? If you are one of those super-charged salespersons, or if you think you could be, think of the most ridiculous things in the world and let us know how you’d sell them! (LIST CONDITIONS AND PLAY DATES HERE!) If you possess that divixe spark that enables you to sell your mother-in-law to your own brother-in-law’s household for a few weeks, or, if you’re better than William Powell in ‘‘ Fashions of 1934’’ who gets ideas like selling unborn ostrich feathers to contented women, you’re the person who ought to be able to think of the dizziest sales talk! 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