Evening star., 1926-12-26
Movie Sidelights

BY the Associated Press.
CTUDIO-STY hats show a radi-
cal change this year over last.
Norma Shearer. Gertrude Olmsted
and Claire Windsor. Metro-G Goldwyn-
MAYER players, are wearing brimless,
tight fitting shapes; sports chapeauX
of various shades; double brims, and
narrow brims with high crowns.
Chanel red predominates the color
schemes.
The wasp waist will never find any
supporters in the movie colony There
was 4 general defiant stamping of
dainty feet when the report was cir
culated that Paris had decreed the
tight corset. The vetoes came from
Norma Shearer Claire Windsor, Pau.
line Stark, Joan Crawford, Sally
O'Neill. Gertrude Olmsted, Eleanor
Boardman and others.
Genius should form only small
part of the perfect actors mind in the
opinion of Director Hobart Henley.
talent, 40 per cent intelligence and 10
per cent genius. The mind of a
genius Is too unbalanced to get down
to the work of acting" Henley says.
Pola Negri divides her time be-
tween three homes in Southern Cali
fornia. She has a bungalow on the
grounds Of large Los Angeles hotel,
home in Beverly Hills and cot.
tage at Santa Monica Beach.
w. G. Fields has '1ow comedy" feet
so he has the heels cut off his shoes.
For many years his standard costume
as a stage comedian included shoes
with fiat soles and several sizes too
large. Now he is playing a higher
type of comedy and his shoes must
f1t. but the habit of fat soles Is so
strong. he says. that he can't feel '1n
character" If wearing heels.
Here are specifications set by Jack
White, supervising director of Educa.
tional comedies. for the ideal comedi.
enne: She should be small, active,
bright. snappy. vivacious, chic, some
what of rogue, and beautiful but
brainy.
The makeup box was discarded in
the production of Wings" The pic
ture is made on panchromatic Aim
where grease-paint is unnecessary.
Clouds were photographed in the Sc.
quences. They were located by 10
flyers who secured the southern Dor
ton Of Texas, where the picture was
produced.
When Henry Hathaway. assistant
director. shouted exceptionally stern
orders at tall middle.aged man por.
traying an officer, Director Victor
Fleming cautioned him against being
so severe. But when the scene was
over the tall man, playing small
role, walked over to Hathaway and
patted him affectionately on the head.
He was Rhodey Hathaway. father of
the young assistant director.
Bobby Vernon. who appears in COM
edies, started his movie career at the
age of 16. In one picture ne played
opposite Louise Fazenda as an old
man, wearing wig and long beard,
new coiffure for each sequence in
Paradise for Two" wherein Betty
Bronson appears hatless, is the goal
set for her by the hairdresser. Miss
Bronson is playing a decidedly adult
role as the wife of Richard Dix.
BrunetteS, take encouragement from
Director Reginald Barker. He says
brunettes have a. greater chance for
success in motion pictures than
blondes, because they photograph bet.
ter, brown eyes being more effective
on the screen than gray or blue. He
also thinks brunettes are more tenn
peramentaliy suited to theatrical
work, with due exceptions to Lillian
Gish, Mae Murray, Greta Garbo,
Eleanor Boardman, Claire Windsor
and others Of the blonde tribe.