CLOTHES AND MOVIES
“Clothes alone do not make a motion Heture, but they may easily mar it. ' JSitys Travis Banton, fashion expert lor l be Paramount studios in Hollywood. In Banton’s opinion the clothes a Player wears must register the character and tastes of the person being portrayed. He cites “The Greene Murder Case,” a Paramount all-talking production, as an example. “Clothes,” he says, “play a most significant part in the picture. In the first scene they establish the contrasting characters of the two Greene sisters, and Ada. Sibella, who is niodorn, sophisticated, matter-of-fact, wears a black and white evening gown v ery modernistic in feeling; Ada. the ; Cinderella of the household, Victorian ( in her tastes and feminine to her J fingertips, is garbed in a pale blue. J fluffy creation. The very materials | are emblematic of the girls** tastes: **tin in >’ibella's case; chiffon in that I ol Ada.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 795, 16 October 1929, Page 17
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150CLOTHES AND MOVIES Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 795, 16 October 1929, Page 17
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