The Devils Lake world and inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1915-1920, 1916-09-14
JACKIE
CHAMELEON GIRL
She Achieves a Change a Minute in
Her Emotions, and a Change an
of EviI.n

A change an hour in her costumes
and Il change u minute in her emotions
is the record achieved by Jackie
Saunders in playing the leading roles
in '1he Grip of Evil" the new Pathe
photoplay in fourteen chapters. Miss
Saunders a change her expression
and Ii 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 Saunders been the
chameleon that Scotch plaid would
never have stumped her. l watched
her for the past two hours and in that
ION and at least one hundred and
twenty emotions have registered them
| selves on her c%ountenance," this visitor
said. II 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 t2 tHAs eehtllaa & 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.
"Thc 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.
II don't believe there is q woman in
the world who does not have her char.
acter changed with the dress she
wears. I know in my own IA I take
on the quiet demure actions of 8
stenographer when I. am attired in 8
neat business suit and enacting the
part of a st~enographer. I feel al
though I were a Woodworking girl
whose path is strewn with tenpta
lions, and that by every appearance
-1r.mnSt show that I am ready at al
times to resist them. 'N'
4ACA "0ClA L Ia SVWAOu as OAO ~
ciety woman there is a certain feeling
that comes over me which / canno
explain, but it makes me look and &C
different. I do things that 1 woult
never think of doing when I acted tn,
part of a s:enographer.
"And the cOlOrs Of the gowns havl
much to do with the way women fee
and act. I do not think that men re
alize women r as primitive as the!
are. We see so many situations por
trayed on the stage or on the screel
and read about them in books, where
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.
a primitive strain to them and harl
back to prehistoric times in their &C
lions as often as men do"
When Miss Saunders was told tn
number Of characters she would have tt
portray in 1.-The Grip of Evil" and giver
an approximate idea of the number Of
gowns and suits she would require sha
made a flying trip to New York.
It was a tolerably easy matter, will
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
five to twenty changes Of costume
and all the requirements of feml
nine wear that 60 to make the cos
tunes complete have been provide,
for each of these. You can imagin,
how busy her dresser is.