SNAPSHOTS OF LIFE IN HOLLYWOOD TO-DAY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 229, 26 September 1940, Page 14

SNAPSHOTS OF LIFE IN HOLLYWOOD TO-DAY.

Chinese Ricepicker" Pyjamas For Holidays.

(By SHEILAH GRAHAM.) I

What Deanna Durbin wears to-day you will see on the back of young America to-morrow. So let's look at Deanna's current private and screen wa i d robe. Very attractive is Miss Durliin's number one "date" dress of black velveteen. , The skirt is flared to back fullness and topped by a perky Ih»w at the scalloped point of the close-fitted jacket. (\ou have to look hard to see where the jacket ends). Eyelet embroidered pink bengaline decorates the collar and short sleeves. Deanna's hat, of black felt, is wide-brimmed and worn off the face. Shoes, bag and gloves are black suede and kid.

Very tailored is Deanna's coat of green basket-weave covert cloth. The coat has a double-breasted front and is fastened with matching green buttons and green leather belt. The wide collar, notched to affect revers, is of ocelot. Deanna carries a matching muff. A black postillion felt hat and black suede accessories finish the ensemble.

A tailored suit in autumn gold is ofherringbone Shetland tweed with a bunch of kick pleats and slight flare styling the skirt, which is topped by a hip-length, double-breasted jacket accented with brown buttons. Attention to detail is seen in the stitched panel of the front and the tiny pointed shoulder pockets. Brown is repeated in Deanna's sports felt hat and suede accessories.

And here are some numbers worn by Deanna in her latest film ... An authentic Hungarian style, with snug fitting bodice of green velvet over muslin blouse with puff sleeves, The wide, flaring, green wool skirt is accordionpleated and bordered with peasant embroidery. Twelve starched petticoats balloon out the skirt. . . .And for high society occasions is a horizon blue faille taffeta with matching blue organza shower ruffies, hand" embroidered with flowers and bound in rose satin ribbon. The hat to go with it is a sailor of champagne straw braid, decorated with large roses and flyaway veiling of matching blue. Accessories blue suede gloves with fine petitpoint flowers, a small silk purse decorated with seed pearls, and a fluffy parasol of the same fabric as her dress. . . . For dancing at T.he Emperor's ]>alace, Deanna wears a faille taffeta, in an apricot shade, patterned with a Roses of Pieardy print. A lingerie yoke, ruffles of lace, and blue velvet ribbons and bows give the gown an ultra feminine look.

Irene Dunne lurching by the pool at Arrowhead Springs in a pvjama suit copied after the Chinese rice-picker's outfit. The loose-fitting jacket and slacks are of blue cotton, and her sunshade is like a Chinese eoolie's hat. Irene's sandals are of natural straw and flat-heeled. Over her shoulder; a bamboo bag, inside of which is her bathing suit. Anna Sten lunches at the Beverly Hills Brown Derby in a print afternoon dress, featuring large black butterflies on a pink background with two butterfly appliques below the shoulders. Her furs are platinum foxes; her hat is a black felt with a crown of fleshcoloured plumage and black veiling; shoes, wedge-heeled pumps; bags and gloves of simple linea in olack suede. Bette Davis wears an "identity" onlooker dress at the tennis tournament of the West Wide Club. On the flaps of each of the two pockets 011 her cocoacoloured sports frock are embroidered Bette's name in hyacinth blue. Her first name shows up on the single bodice pocket; her surname on the hip pocket on the opposite side. Binnie Barnes is prepared for rain with a green oil-cloth rain suit, which has a. flared skirt and a tightly buttoned jacket. The jacket has a hood lined in red.