Screenland (May-Oct 1928)

78 SCREENLAND Grace Kingsley's Gossip— continued from page 39 it is in Spain. 'Crespo' sounds altogether too much like a certain well advertised frying ingredient not to be kidded in this country." "Oh, there's Hope Hampton!" exclaimed Billie Dove, who had just come in. Sure enough, there was the beauteous Hope, with her glorious coloring, which, we are happy to say, is not lost on the screen, since she is making the color photography features. She was with her husband, Jules Brulatour. We were delighted to see her, as we used to be pals in the days when she was in Hollywood making pictures. She hasn't changed a bit in five years, unless to become more bloomingly pretty. She is going to make her next picture in Paris. Camilla Horn was there, and to her Charlie Chaplin paid marked attention when he could manage to free himself from all the people who wanted to talk to him; and could manage to break his way through the crowd surrounding Camilla. Greta Nissen came with that handsome haps by the time this is printed the sisters will be in Paris. Edwin Carewe was there, and Victor Varconi, Joseph Schenck, Lloyd Pantages, and a lot of others. Victor Varconi said he had spent only ten days in Europe when they cabled him to come home. He was right in the midst of a hub-bub of Hungarian tongues, with all his friends gathered around him at one of their homes, when the message arrived from the studio. "So I saw almost nothing of my old friends," he said. Carmen Pantages, daughter of Alexander Pantages, owner of the big string of theaters, came with John Considine, to whom she is supposed to be engaged. She wants to go into pictures, and as she is very pretty and intelligent she should do well in them. However, her nose has a little bump on it which she says she is going to have removed by means of an operation, although it merely adds character to her face, I think, without in the least spoiling her Roland Drew, and Greta was receiving a great deal of attention too. "All the men seem to be learning to speak German so they can talk to Camilla and Greta in their own native tongue without anybody around knowing what they are .saying," remarked Patsy as Johnny Hines started trying out his rather remarkable German on Miss Nissen. Lilyan Tashman was looking too perfectly stunning in a tight-fitting black taffeta evening gown, and a number of other stars also wore tight-fitting dresses, including Leatrice Joy in the most exquisite white lace gown, and Billie Dove in a lovely lace dress. Billie is letting her hair grow, and it ripples on her shoulders. She informed us she is learning roller skating and is wildly enthusiastic about it. Indeed the whole film colony is going quite mad about the sport. Vivian Duncan breezed in alone, sister Rosetta being still enthralled with Portland, where .she is visiting friends, but perlooks. Stockings or Stockingless— Continued from page 19 fad is likely to bring to light a number of uncharming sights. By ^Wallace Beery Sounds great to me. After figuring up my wife's stocking bill covering the past six months, you can put me down as an enthusiastic supporter. It might prove a healthy idea, too. After all, each year we are discarding gradually the useless garments that have hampered our health and movements for years. I believe we are slowly turning about a cycle that will bring us back to the Grecian robes and sandals. How delightfully unenvolved life would then be! Husbands would no longer have to listen to wifie cry, 'I simply can't go, I haven't a thing to wear!' She would simply wash and iron the family sheet, twine it gracefully about her figure with some cord, slip on a pair of sandals and be rarin' to go! The fact that women are discarding stockings, as they have already cast aside corsets, unnecessary underwear, and long skirts, is nothing to worry about. They will soon put high-heeled, ridiculous shoes in the ash-heap along with stockings, and an age of healthy, beautiful women will be the result. By Kichard Arlen At the beach perhaps, but in town on the boulevards, on the dance floors — No! It's a rather unnecessary gesture, not indicative of comfort, for I know that wearing shoes without the protection of stockings is not pleasant. There is something unfinished about a woman's unstockinged legs when she is fully dressed. Although many of Hollywood's flappers have been going about with unstockinged legs for some time, I still experience a definite shock whenever I see a pair of nude limbs. It's an embarrassing sensation, too, like walking in upon a person in a bathtub, or something like that. I can be put on record as being an old fogy absolutely opposed to the nostocking campaign. By Charles Rogers Girls have worn such sheer stockings in flesh shades for such a long time, that their sudden decision to discard even these relics of the former all-wool-and-a-yard-long-variety makes but little difference. In fact, I must look twice at the limbs in question before I can decide whether the young lady is wearing the new sun-burn shade of hose or the real thing. If it makes the girls more comfortable to go without stockings, or if it helps keep expenses down, I can't think of any reason why a mere male should offer objections. Men, for centuries, have always sent up a hue and cry at each new feminine emancipation, and I believe it's time to do a little applauding instead. Women did not object to the collegiate nogarter fad, or the Oxford bags, or padded shoulders, to which the men fell victims. By Rod La Kocque My wife can wear whatever she wants to, but somehow I can't picture Vilma going out in public with bare legs. By William Boyd If the girls want to leave their stockings at home, let 'em! I don't see why mere man should try and dictate in a case like this. Personal taste should be the deciding factor, and if I wanted to go around without sox, somebody else's opinion wouldn't make me wear 'em! By ]ac\ Mulhall I've no doubt that bare legs will be with us to a certain extent on Hollywood Boulevard, especially among, the younger set of flappers, who like to be a bit daring. Personally, I think a woman is foolish to go bare-legged. It destroys illusion and allure. She becomes less piquant than she is in sheer hose. By Richard Barthelmess Extremes in anything are bad. Smartness and charm are the two things a woman should seek in dress. Bare legs are just as bad for street wear as white cotton stockings that wrinkle at the ankle. By Donald Reed Comfort is the key-note in summer, and I think that it lends to a woman's summer attractiveness to dispense with stockings. There is nothing more shocking about bare legs than there is about silk hose. Have your youngster try for Big Boy's Mac\ Truc\ — see page seventy-four of this issue of Screenland If he wins he will gain, besides a toy, a feeling of confidence which he will never forget.