The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-09-11
JACKIE SAUNDERS,
CHAMELEON GIRL
She Achieves a Change Minute in
Her Emotions, and a Change ar
Hour in Her Costumes in "The Grip
of Evil"

A change an hour in her costumes
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 1.-The Grip of
Evil pictures are being produced.
Had Jackie Saunders been the
chameleon that Scotch plaid would
never have stumped her. / 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. Il 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-
cations Jackie Saunders is an entirely
different person.
THE gowns have a whole lot to do
with it," was the reply of Miss Saun-
| ders, when asked how she accomplish
| ell the difficult feat of varying her looks
| and her actions as the emotions of the
| character she was portraying varied.
Il don't believe there is 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 &
| sten0grapher when | am attired in 8
neat business suit and enacting the
! part of a stenographer. l feel az
| though l were q Woodworking girl
| whose path is strewn with tempta
tons, and that by every appearance
/ must show that l am ready at al
times to resist them.
'Then when | am gowned as the so
cfety woman there is a certain feelin.
that comes over me which | canno
explain, but it makes me look and &c
different. / do things that l woulC
never think Of doing when acted tn,
part of a stenographer.
4 "And the colors of the gowns hav
much to do with the way women fee
and act. | do not think that men re
| oil ~,
are. We see SO many situations POI
trayed on the stage or on the scree
and read about them in books, wher
J men bark back to the primitive day
of the race, but novelists, playwright
and motion picture scenario writer
, seem to forget that women also hav
,, primitive strain to them and har
back to prehistoric times in their az
tons as often as men do"
When Miss Saunders was told til
number of characters she would have t
portray in 1.-THE Grip of Evil" and give
! an approximate idea of the number O
! gowns and suits she would require sh
made flying trip to New York.
! It was a tolerably easy matter, wit
Q the aid of one of the leading modiste
D to get the advance styles in her gown
> and suits for parts as girl of wealt
: and refinement.
n Every episode of s'The Grip of Evil
o requires Miss Saunders to make fro,
0 five to twenty changes of costum
5 and all the accoutrements of fem
5 nine wear that go to make the co
D tunes complete have been provide
y for each of these. You can imagir
how busy her dresser is.
q