The Archive · 1923

The Mere Man Notices

Even the male playgoers remark at their oddity. ree years in their case might be threa centuries, excepting that the frocks look merely odd and not picturesque.

It is mot so much the style that materials. Miss Joyce Casey, in the present production, wears a crinoline-shaped frock of taffette in a shade of the pink of antirrhinums. The old frock, cut straight with a pinafore effect in front, in colour resembles a mixture of inelegantly mashed strawberries and milk.

Marocain in 1920 was unknown. The vamp's frock then'was of black taffette and silver sequins. This year Lady Tonbridge (Miss Kate Cutler) wears a, Lucille crea-in which gold tissue plays a large part.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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