The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-09-22
JACKIE SAUNDERS,
CHAMELEON GIRL
She Achieves Change Minute In
Her Emotions, and a Change an
Hour in Her Costumes in "The Grip
of Evil"

A change an hour in her costumes
and a 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-
.ently 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
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. 81 don't know how she does it."
The roles played by Miss Saunders
n this continued production range
lrom the daughter of the millionaire
railroad president TO the child of the
slums and from the ingenious de-
butante to the palnstaking stenog-
rapher. In each of these characteri-
cations Jackie Saunders is an entirely
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
el the difficult fea. of varying her looks
ind her actions as tna emotions Of the
character she was portraying varied.
IL don't believe there is u woman in
the world who does not have her char
acter changed with the dress she
wears. / know in my own case take
on the quiet demure actions of
stenographer when l am attired in
neat business suit and enacting tho
part of a stenographer. i feel as
though l were n hard-working girl,
whose path is strewn with tempta-
tions, and that by every appearance
/ must show that l am ready at all
times to resist them.
"Then when l am gowned as the So
ciety woman there is a certain feeling
that comes over me which | cannot
explain, but it makes me look and act
different. l do things that l would
never think of doing when l acted the
part Of a stenographer.
"And the cOlors OF the gowns have
much TO do with the way women feel
and act. do not think that men re-
allze women are as primitive as they
are. We see so many situations por-
trayed on the stage or on the screen
and read about them in books, where
men bark back to the primitive days
of the race, hut novelists, playwrights
and motion picture scenario writer's
seem to forget that women also have
n primitive strain to them and bark
back to prehistoric times in their ac-
tions as often as men do"
When Miss Saunders was told tho
number of characters she would 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.
1t was a 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
five to twenty changes of costume,
and all the accoutrements Of feml-
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.