The Cordova daily times., 1919-03-10
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feather cloaks wer. {, be the sign of !.e nobility, they did not reckon for the trouble they We're to cause future generations who wish to immortal;ze the early days of North America on the never-fading film.
 Geraldine Farrar, who so wonder fully and vividly immortalized Joan of Arc in the great production of "Joan the Woman" was selected by Cecil de Mile to perpetuate the career of Tez ca, Montezuma's daughter, who for love sold her city to the conquering Spaniards under Cortes. It is upon this that Jeanie MacPherson's story for the Aircraft spectacle, "The Woman God Forgot" at the Empress threaten tonight and tomorrow night, was founded.
 For three months before the actual filming of the picture, Director de Miles research department was at work in the libraries and museums and even invadedMexico itself, to photo graph the ruins of the ancient Aztec palaces.
 Exact reproductions of the Aztec city, the famous throne room of Mon- tezuma, and an exact replica of the famous pyramid of Teocalli, nearly 200 feet in height, were erected, and some thousand people employed in the filming of the scenes, but as they were mostly Aztecs of the lower classes, their costumes were easily supplied. It was when they came to the costumes of the 250 nobles and the garments of MOntezuma, his daughter, and his immediate court, that the costume department was mo- mentarily stumped.
 Drawings compiled by the archae- ologists and historians demanded that cloaks, headdresses, vests, and even the curtains, rugs and screens, be of woven feathers. Eight feather robes were required for Montezuma; six for Guatemoc, his favorite; four feath- cred gowns were required for the Aztec emperor and six for his daugh- | ter.
 l A hundred and twenty feathered cloaks for the nobles and the court 25O feathered shields, and 400 feath- cred spears and other war imple- ments, were as nonchalantly ordered by the director as if feathers were the eastiest things in the world to obtain. But where to get the feath- CTS? Scouts were sent out to all chicken farms and arrangements made to secure the plumage of the dressed chickens.
 Feathers are not very heavy, but it was estimated that at least 400 pounds of cleaned and dyed feathers would be required to make the fabric for the cloaks, rugs, screens, etc.
 For the head-dresses, pheasant wings and the more elaborate plum age were used An extensive search was made through every wholesale millinery and feather supply house on the coast. As certain feathers were no longer imported into the United States, this was no easy task, but finally they were secured and the huge work room of the wardrobe depart ment was filled with workers. Two eight-hour shifts of forty people each did nothing but paste and work out the feathered designs, and after the feathers had been cleand and dyed in the desired colors, a corps of ten jewellers were set to work making the breast-plates, crowns, bracelets and other jeweled ornaments to be used by the nobility.
 | One of the cloaks worn by Raymond Hatton as the emperor weighs nearly fifty pounds and is of yellow and blue feathers, woven into the design. The head-dress is also of the same com binatiop of colors and even the shield at the back of the throne is made of the same material.
 Theodore koslon, the noted Husslan dancer, who plays the role of Guate- moo, for his marriage to Geraldine Farrar as Montezuma's daughter, wore great long cloak entirely Of long white feathers. All of Miss Far rar's head-dresses were creations of millinery that would make the aver age feminine heart green with jeal- ousy.
 In addition to the feathered cos tunes, Miss Farrar wore leopard skin coat made from nine leopard skins.
 The armor for the Spanish invaders was another interesting item, as all of this had to be of substantial steel to withstand the arrows of the Aztecs which were fired at them from the roof of the temple.