FROCKS IN “NIGHTBIRDS."

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8343, 1 February 1913, Page 12

FROCKS IN “NIGHTBIRDS."

The dresses in “Nightbirds," which is being played at tho Opera House just now are especially gorgeous. In the second act every one of the ladies of the chorus wears a "creation" or a ‘ dream in frocks, and Miss Murphy, as the Countess Cliquot, surpasses them all. Her first “tea gown" is a marvel of white crepe de ohene and brocade with a bordering pattern of turquoise blue; in tho next act she appears first in a beautiful coat of yellow satin worked in gold

beads and edged all round with wide fox fur. Discarding this later she wears white satin almost entirely encrusted with crystal and silver and finished with turquoise velvet. On her head is a turban of silver tissue and spangles with an upstanding aigrette. But her last gown of all surpasses oven this. It is half of white brocade and half of black velvet, th© edge of the velvet patterned in white floral design, and with this she wears a black hat with long black and white plonreuse plumes. In this act, which takes place in the New Age Prison, the male prisoners wear knee breeches and suits of light blue with crossed arrows on tho cuffs and collars. The females are gorgeous in scarlet satin with turban headdresses, fixed with a golden arrow. Miss Dorothy Brunton wears a pretty frock in the second act, pale blue ninon bordered with a hand-painted design of red roses, which also shows in the form of a pointed panel in front, and on her right wrist she ties a tiny bunch of red roses with pale bine ribbon. In this act there appears some really lovely costumes. A pale green dress has a drape of vivid mandarin yellow, a beautiful black and white costume has a bordering to the long black train of large black spots on a white ground, and emerald green makes a relieving note. Palo pink roses patterned on a pale blue ground forms another dainty garment, orange chiffon encrusted with gold spangles, and in contrast to all this colour there is a beautiful gown of black jetted tulle and a pale grey charmeuso with silver embroideries. Nearly all of these ladies wear aigrettes or feathers of some kind in their hair; some wear bandeaux of glittering stones and several • the apparently fashionable turban with high standing aigrette in front in Persian style.