Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-08-21
HOW THE STARS DRESS.

Edwin Booth pays little attention to what
he wears.
Minnie Palmer has spent fortune on
stockings alone.
Agnes Booth spends vast sums of money ON
clothes for the stage.
Mrs. D. P Bowers, while an artist in
making up, spends but little on dress,
Stuart Robson expends a considerable
share of his income in dressing himself
Annie Plxley made "trip to the mines to
study up the ways and dress she wears in
"M'liss"
Margaret Mather possesses good working
wardrobe, but it is not one TO excite especial
comment.
Billy Florence's clothes are always abso-
lutely perfect and worth a great many
mighty dollars.
'Dromio" Cranes somewhat fastidious
taste in dress involves an expenditure, it is
said, of more than 81, 500 year.
Fred Warde spends enormous sums Of
money on his stage costumes, as well as the
clothes which he wears in private life,
Clara Morris has one of the largest and
most expensive of wardrobes on the Ameri-
can stage, She designs all her own costumes.
Mrs. Florence is 60 years old, but she stfll
keeps up as magnificent wardrobe as when
she dazzled the country in 1.-THE Mighty Dol
lar.n
For single front of a dress worn in
Fedora Fanny Davenport paid Marion
Foster. the artist cripple of Minerva, O.,
$1,000
Lawrence Barrett is the best and most
carefully dressed actor on the American
stage. His costumes in "Rienzi" cost over
$1,000
Florence Girard, wife Of Henry Z. Abbey,
during her brief connection with the Wal
lack company, spent over 5000 on her
dresses.
Lillian Olcott spent in the neighborhood Of
5000 for her Theodore" wardrobe. besides
weeks of study in the British museum hunt
ing up plates and prints.
Louis James will never consent to appear
in garb that is not as near perfect In ap-
pearance it can be made by the outlay of
time and money.
Joseph Jefferson is very part icular in his
professional make up As Bob Acres in 1.-THE
Rivals" he wears one of the most expensive
sets of dresses ever made
7. W Keene spares neither time. trouble
nor money in securing proper and elegant
wardrobe. His is said to he the largest and
most complete of any one Ia his line.
Marie Wainwright is credited With being
the best dres ed woman on the American
stage, although many actresses carry more
money to the dressInakers than she does
Mary Anderson pays but little heed to
costuming beyond that necessary to meet the
requirements OF the characters she plays,
and has little or no wardrobe to boast of
Modjeska is so particular about her dresses
that she makes them herself That is, she
buys the material and has the cutters and
seamstresSes come in and complete them
under her supervision.
Many of Maggie Mitchells dresses have
been picked up during years of ram
blings, and while inexpensive when consid-
cred separately, are worth a pretty penny
when considered together.
The dresses worn by Mrs. Langtry in "A
Wife's Peril" cost her something like Ct 600
while her complete wardrobe, including the
dresses made this season for LAS in a Look.
ing Glass, is valued at SIS 900.
Rose Coghlan, whose dresses as star have
yet to be written up and commented upon
by the public at large, spent, as rule, while
leading lady of the old Wallack stock com
pany from $500 to $500 on her dresses foI
every new play in which she was cast.