The log cabin Democrat., 1916-09-18
JACKIE SAUNDERS.
 CHAMELEON GIRL
She Achieves . Change a Minute In Her Emotions. and . Change an Hour In Her Costumes in "The Grip of Evil"


 and change a minute in her emotions is the record achieved by Jackie Saunders in playing the leading roles in 'The Grip of Evil" the new Pathe photoplay in fourteen chapters. Miss Saunders can change her expression and her gowns so quickly that she has been called the Chameleon Girl of the Screen"
 One of Miss Saunders admirers re- gently visited the Balboa studio in Long Beach, Cal, where ''The Grip of Evil" pictures are being produced.
 Had Jackie tSaunders been the chameleon that Scotch plaid would never have stumped her. 1 watched her for the past two hours and in that time she had three different costumes on and at least one hundred and twenty emotions have registered them- selves on her countenance," this visitor said. "1 don't know how she does it."
 The roles played by Miss Saunders In this continued production range from the daughter of the millionaire railroad president to the child of the slums and from the ingenious de- butante to the painstaking stenog- rapher. In each of these characteri- different person.
 1.-The gowns have a whole lot to do with it," was the reply of Miss Saun- ders, when asked how she accomplish e1 the difficult feat of varying her looks and her actions as the emotions of the character she was portraying varied.
 "I don't believe there is a woman in the world who does not have her char acter changed with the dress she wears. l know in my own case l take on the quiet demure actions of a stenographer when am attired in a neat business suit and enacting the part of stenographer. feel as though l were a hard-working girl, whose path Is strewn with tempta- tiops, and that by every appearance A5&EJ &EJ 7sYI 7s!I.l 4sIB e9 .az,:....' ready :s ..'
 ~Then when am gowned as the so- ciety woman there is a certain feeling that comes over me which l cannot explain, but 1t makes me look and act different. l do things that I would never think of doing when 1 acted the part of stenOgrapher.
 And the colors of the gowns have much to do with the way women feel and act. l do not think that men re- alize women are as primitive as they are. We see so many situations DOT trayed on the stage or on the screen and read about them in books, where men hark back to the primitive days of the race, but novelists, playwrights and motion picture scenario writers seem to forget that women also have a primitive strain to them and hark back to prehistoric times in their ac- tions as often as men do."
 When Miss Saunders was told the number of characters sheWOuld have to portray in '"The Grip of Evil" and given an approximate idea of the number of gowns and suits she would require she made flying trip to New York.
 It was tolerably easy matter. with the aid of one of the leading mOdistes, to get the advance styles in her gowns and suits for parts as a girl of wealth and refinement.
 Every episode of '"The Grip of Evil' requires Miss Saunders to make from Eve to twenty changes of costume, and all the accoutrements of fem- nine wear that go to make the cos tunes complete have been provided for each of these. You can imagine how busy her dresser is.