Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-07-15 | Page 22 | Difficulty Found in Adapting Ferber Novel to Screen

Difficulty Found in Adapting Ferber Novel to Screen HOLLYWOOD United Press Press- Edna Ferber cant can't be accused or having had her ees cast screen screen- ward Sh wrote Show noat of Universal where th book Is now limed proclaim pro pro- claim It Itne ne ot the hardest ot aU stories to for Miss Ferber drew her characters by rather than by description Accordingly there seems to be no opinion on just how each of the various Important Im- Im figures In the picture should look Johanna Mathieson who heads the studio wardrobe department says Show Boat has given Iter more trouble than any picture made while she has been at Universal The wardrobe the production covers tour different periods from 1885 to the present In the first mentioned date bus bus- and wide shouldered dresses were favored while the leg 0 mutton mut- mut ton sleeve and the hour glass waist were the styles In 1896 Between 1901 and 1905 the Gibson Gib- Gib son girl was the rage She wore a flowing dress a ruffled skirt and pompadour was the ta- ta mode of hair dress The change to modern garb Is A notable cast has been signed for Show Boat Alma Rubens play the voluptuous Julie show boat actress Joeph Jo- Jo eph appear as Ravenal the debonair river ambler and Emily Fitzroy wm have the Parthenia nn Hawkes