BUILDING IDEAS

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 155, 29 December 1938, Page 14

BUILDING IDEAS

Chromium and glass bricks, in conjunction with Janet Gaynor, Robert Montgomery, and Franchot Tone, have started a new fashion in American homes that is resulting in floods of letters from architects and builders to Cedric Gibbons, art director at the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios. It is all because of the elaborate modernistic penthouse set he designed for "Three Loves Has iNancy," the ultra-modern comedy rorpance. Three boys meet a girl, and then a mad merry mixup occurs in the story, much of it laid in the penthouse, supposedly the home of Montgomery. Designed for a maximum of sunlight, it features glass bricks : Gaily-coloured floors, built-in furni ture conveniences, chromium and modernised fixtures, are among its features. Several picture stars, on viewing the sets, used the idea in building new homes. Luise Rainer had her new home remodelled ;n the style of the set. Since the picture's release, prospective home builders, seeing the picture, have referred their builders to it for ideas. "Three Loves Has Nancy" tells the story of a small-town girl (Miss Gaynor) who finds herself waiting at the church on the' day she is supposed to be married. She sets out, aided and abetted by Montgomery, to find the missing bridegroom, winds up as Montgomery's cook, can't make up her mind which of three suitors she loves, and amid many comical situations negotiates the bumpy path of true love. Richard Thorpe directed. The players include Guy Kibbee, Claire Dodd, Reginald Owen, Cora Witherspoon, Emma Dunn, and Charley Grapewin.