FUZZY-WUZZY FASHIONS

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 774, 21 September 1929, Page 18

FUZZY-WUZZY FASHIONS

TO BE SEEN IN “FOUR FEATHERS” The women of the Sudanese tribe, which Kipling christened the FuzzyWuzzys, have dressed in the same fashion since the white man first found them thriving on the east coast of Central Africa, according to Earnest B. Schoedsack and Merian Cooper, the two adventurous Paramount Directors who spent a year among the natives filming scenes for “The Four Feathers”. “When the spring season arrives,” said Schoedsack, “the Fuzzy-Wuzzy women send their husbands several thousand miles to the nearest British settlements to purchase seven yards of cotton material. It is usually red, the brighter the better. “When the material is delivered there is no distressing labour with scissors, needles or thread. The brilliant cloth is simply wrapped round the waist, down to the ankles, then up again, splitting the ends. then throwing them over each shoulder.” osKGe In producing ‘‘Marianne" a:? Marion Davies’s first talking feature film. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer has combined the efforts of six noted composers who have turned out a musical score acclaimed by Arthur Lange, music arranger, as the most tuneful written in recent years. Included in the song numbers are “Just You —Just Me” and "Hang On To Me" by Greer and 1 Kluges. "Sugar.” “Oo La La.” and ; “Marianne” by Turk and Ahlert aijd 1 “Blondy,” by Brown and Freed,