New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-08-22
A rHEA1RlCAL CosTUMEEs ExpARlrycl
TALK WITH MAN WHO HAS DRESSED MANY
ACTORS AND ACTRESSES.

TALK WITH MAN WHO HAS DRESSED MANY
ACTORS AND ACTRESSES.
"Oh, yes, SIT, l suppose u few peculiar ex-
perienees have been my lot No, don't object to talk
Ing tn reporters but have never had the pleasure az
meeting one from THE TRIBUNE before"
Your experiences. sir-but frat tell me your name
LauIeys sir Some call me professor. others Mr. >
but 1t makes me feel good when men who are distn.
gushed Introduce me as my friend Laureys 1t IA a
good deal to say that you have for lifelong friends
Where have lived you ask Well ct present Won see
am here above the Vienna Bakery. My rooms are uot
arranged as artlstcay an aesthetic might desire but
then they rooms whore everyone is welcome ana
hope where all who come 20 will .ec at home
Bat TO answer your question of where have been Get
out Your pencil or you VIII forget Now listen. The
Opera Royal Brussels; Porte st. Marlin Oner,
Comlque and Anbigu Paris Opera. Royal, LYONS:
Kings Opera, Holland Kings Opera Berlin: DERRY
Lane Her Maesy's Theatre, Covent Garden and nj,
Princess Theatre, London; Grand Opera House san
Francisco; Niblos Garden, and now at the Union
Square"
"When were you at Niblo's %
at the time OF tie fire. There it was that lost
nearly all OF my wardrobe books medals Oh that
was a sad time. 1t / who costuned tho nlacu
Crook when was first produced That the richest
dressing that has been seen on the sage in N,
hofk forget the exact figures, but it was between
$4,000 and $4,000 for dresses alone The whole mount
tng OF the piece cost nearly 100000 then two or
three fortunes were made what does II matter %
what do studyi Correctness OF costume | onlv
wish you could ask Madame Ttiens or Mario OF Mr. and
MRS Charles Kean, and many the famous sars,
OF twenty-five years ago whom have dressed sbout
Laureys Or those you Gan ask have made dresses for
George Fawcett Rowe, Frank Mayo, John McCullough
ana list as long as my arm that could Nance
"Do the actors the American stage Dress orrnoti o.
AS ime they dress according to their pOcketbooks
Actors they nave the money, would rather be dressed
correctly"
care there exceptions 2"
has
with dressing. | know actor who cut IN India
shawls worth $500 and 800 to make dress for L,oo
Now id0o was poor soldier 3 pence a day Tint
was certainly not correct. Then OiheHo was n moor
dressed a Persian Count" iA'e7
NO Doe5 ba nS 1oe Nr, boole dress correctly r.
d of dr sa so Vas S GhgrGs Kean made dress
ior 10 i2ok A. And yet otentiines You will OheUo
DO not critics find fault with incorrect dresslng2o
root so co%ne as rue, they 90 not know what is
want very often to Wear Prinoesc Ihey
uLc, Whch the correct dress Ia full one pernaps with
the waist as high as the arm-pts No. fashion does not
in the Tower of London III the British dason, so 1
70 get them up correctly DO you know tha In 1903 the
weather. But don't publish that You will see some of
t teT young Olood' in fif'A"vo carrying nus next
''what do dresses costa"
oios dresses cost more; But You can ret them mp
eheeapX by proper blending OF coors" w
Tel me some of the pecuiaritics of the celebrated
Wen r. t ljnp 1hn ~. ,. ,,. = ssss
the fact that they all die poor" = ~ "
What are some of the tricks of your trade ~ ts,
IL Is the popular belief that ali tricks Rut So
tick is IN the actor who wears the dress mon i'm tc
ress mace Tor the actor That il where the dsruise
CONES IN DO you know that actors take the Greatest
uought IN httenuing masquerade parties To see peope
wear costumes VINO do not know how TO wear them
" W ma period IN dress are we living In 2"
nat rs called the fantastic period-a colors and
cause the inncrs must bring something new INST
20 hlcluoscope must show different combination of
oln every ti,ne inc bits OF glass shaken mp"
IA lnoIe thhS Professor. Where You born q"
III ~ gluin was educated in my profession by
crsoies, 1n3 oostumefs ana knew wen Planche, the