Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1917-01-04
JACKIE SAUNDERS.
CHAMELEO Girl
She Aeh,svs. a Change. aainvts In
Her Emotions, and q Change an
Hour In Her Costumes In sThs' orip
Of EvlI.w

! A change an hour In her costumes
and change minute In her emotions
is the record achieved BY Jackie
Saunders In playing the leading roles
in 1.-THE Grip Of Evil" the new Pathe
photoplay in fourteen chapters. Miss
Saunders can, change her expression
and her gowns 20 quickly that she has
been called the chameleon Girl Of the
Screen" I
One Of Miss Saunders admirers re-
Gently visited the Balboa studio in
Long Beach, CAL, where 'sThe Grip Of
Evil" pictures are being produced.
Had Jackie Saunders been the
chameleon that Scotch plaid would
never have stumped her. I watched
her for the past two hours and In that
time she had three different costumes
on and at least ono hundred and
twenty emotions have registered them.
selves on her countenance," = is-visitor
said. II don't know how che 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 schasacteri.
cations Jackie Saunders 10 an entirely
dimerentsperson.
THE gowns have a.wheles lot to do
with it,"was the reply. Of safiss Saun.
ders, when asked how fshesaccomplish.
ed the tlifncult feat ofvarying her looks
and her actions as the emotions S6f the
character she was portraying varied.
II don't believe there issa-woman il
the world who does not have her char
acter changed with the dress she
wears. know In my own case IAtake
on the quiet sdemurs actions, Of q
atenographer when am attired In q
neat business suit and enacting TIE
part Of photographer. I feel 81
though wers'ia Woodworking girl,
whose path IL Fstrewnss with stsmpta.
lions. and that by every appearance
I must show that I am ready at an
times to resist them.
"Then when Lam gowned ssthe 10.
ciety woman there is q certain feeling
that comes over me which I cAnnOt
explain, but 1t makes mo look and act
different. I do things that would
never think Of doing when I.acted the
part Of stenoErapher.
"And the colors of the gowns have
much to do with the way women feel
and act. I do not think that men re.
alice women are a. primitive as they
are. We see SO many esituat lions por.
trayed on the stage or on the escreen
and read about them In books, where
men bark back to tho primitive days
Of the race, but novelists, playwrights
and motion picture scenario writer's
seem to forget that women also have
primitive strain to them and bark
back to prehistoric times In their ac-
tons as often a. men do"
When Miss sSaunderss 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 tolerably easy matter, with
the aid of one Of the leading modistes,
to get the advance styles in her gowns
and suits for parts a. girl Of wealth
and refinement.
Every episode Of "The Grip Of EVIL"
requires Miss Saunders to make from
dve to twenty changes efi costume,
and all the acc0utrements of femi-
nine wear that 60 to make the cos
tunes complete have been provided
for each of these. You cam imagine
how busy her dresser Is.