Smart Costumes Shown in Talkie. Feminine Players in "The Girl in the Show" are Alluring.

Hutt News, Volume 2, Issue 38, 27 February 1930, Page 5

Smart Costumes Shown in Talkie. Feminine Players in "The Girl in the Show" are Alluring.

If you've ever, Uv'od in a small town you 11 _ re-member the travelling theatrical companies .that have .visited your neighbourhood .-wi th." their, mysterious leading ladies wW wore city clothes and affected <jit'v. airs. .

In the' 3VletrO'G-cyidwyn-]y[ayer. alltalking jjjic.ture. '"The Girl in. fclte Show," which, will be s"hoiwn at King George Theatre on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, March. sth, 6th, and 7th, Bessie Love-anfl Mary Doran both, portray this type of role. Traveiling with an "iJn.cle Tom's Cabin" company, in which they take /the parts of ■'' "Little Eva/ -^.lid '■'< Topsy ■■' '• they chance on. many out-of-the-way places.

TShe result is that Bessie wins tie hea.Tt of. one of the. leading.citizens by her smart clothes, • Oiie especially attractive, costume consisted of a printed silk, showing a beige background and » bright red pattern which was carried out in her, close-fitting hat and the triolmdn£s oh -her beige slippers. TKe dress showed a close-fitting bodice of hip length with a full'pleated akiisb and.aa ecru1 lace collar finishing the three-cor-nered neckline with matching lace cuff 3.

One of Mary Doran/s costumes wa^ of.. rilk in rose and grey. Tlio dress was sleeveless, showing a printed blouse an 4 a plain-coloured circular skirt 'witth. f. short packet, finished with a 'printed' scarf. A "blue-beret, and short socks gave further dash to. the costume,

Edgar SeLwyn • directed the picture

witih a well-known'cast consisting of. Raymond Hackett, Edward Nbgent, Jed Prouty, Ford * Sterling, Nancy Price, Iyucy Beaumont, Richard Carlyle, ,Alice < Moe,, Frank Nelson, Jack McDonald, Ethel Wales and Joihn F. Morrissey. .