The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-04-13
Brand-new Gowns Are Demand
cd For Almost Every New
Scene In PhotopIays.
MUST ALWAYS BE IN STYLE
Film Patrons Also Insist on Gre
atoms Of Famous Modistes,
and Players Provide Them.
"Gownsl aowns!"


This isathe reason given by mo-
tion picture star who IL we'll known
IN Washington. why young girls
should take something strong ana
positive when the symptoms OF
desire TO become a motion picture
actress first appear.
The business Of dressing a motion
picture play In more serious than
the MAY itself, declared this actress.
she has had considerable experience
on the stage, and has become very
we'll known in motion pictures. AS
she has been n great stickler for
proper costuming in her picture
work, she desires that she shall not
be nanied-but she IL one OF the real
stars Of the Aim.
Tho average stock actress has a
lot more trouble with her costumes
than she has with her lines. And she
thinks her troubles are the worst"
declared this actress. But the stock
leading lady has a comparatively
easy time when compared with the
picture player.
Cannot Wear Gowns Twice.
Ibid you ever see your favorite
staress In the same gown twtce?'
"You never did. And, Furthermore,
you never will. She wouldn't scin-
tiliate long II she wore the same
gown twice. The stock actress.
when she gets tired OF buying new
gowns can 60 TO a different town
and wear her old dresses all over
again, with q little fixing over.
but the motion picture actress
cannot do that. Her public follows
her from place 10 place. l have
panies-but my public has been the
same. I'm glad to say my public
haE crown q lot In numbers since
started motion picture work. But
the point I want to make Is that 1
can't change my audience like the
stock actors. The same people go to
Gee my pictures.
And, furthermore. none OF my
stock wardrobe-the gowns I wore in
stock company productions-will 30
In pictures because the public has
seen mo in all those gowns! The re-
suit Is that every time 1 put on a
picture have to put on several
gowns.
coming rather captious as to the
number of gowns one must wear In
the various scenes Of a picture. We
must appear In n different gown
for every day the picture Is supposed
TO covor. Sc 'N.
New Dress for Each Day.
For instance, II I am to appear in
SCENES covering several days
must have a new gown for each
Of those days. 1t wouldn't be
right for me to appear in the same
gown two days in succession.
at seems absurd. OF course. in
parts where the character is a girl
IN moderate circumstances. 1 know
that before I went on the stage I
considered myself lucky to have half
q doEen gowns-one of which would
be q regular-honest-to-g styl-
ish affair. And when went out
wore that stylish gown time after
time. couldn't do 1t with the same
sort OF q character, in the same
situation in life, In motion pictures
though. must have a new gown
for every, day the action covers.
must be right. You hear lot
about Lucille and I.edfern' crea-
lions on the screen. and you think
the labels are sewed on by press
agents instead of the people who
own the copyrights to them. But
that 10 not true.
Public Demands the Best.
The public demands Lucille aid
Redfern' and all the rest of them.
And we must furnish them. It's a
horrid shame. too. 1 actually spend
more time with a dress maker than
I do with the play I am appearing
tn
IT would ask young girl anxious
to go into pictures II she can stand
quietly day after day and permit
herself 70 be draped and stitched
and pinned into something she must
pay, for but will never have an OPP
portunity to wear-nine cases out of
ten-because she can't AFFORD to 20
where the gown belongs? That is
totally aside from the business of
trying to figure out something new.
THAT Is one Of the real tests. One
OF the things / want to take a. va
cation from Is gowns. Honestly. I
almost cry when think of a new
play. 1t meanF new gowns-more
Howns-and I've got so manv al
ready that I can't do a thing within