Arizona republican., 1921-01-26
Rv MIRIAM rEIcHNER


 LOS ANGELES. Jan. 25. - If you saw the thatch roof houses of a South African village and St. Mary's church In London. and row of caged lions and tigers, an evil looking street of China. and a corner of the New York elums. and a bulbous- domed Moslem view. all set out on the bias and try tng to climb into one another's laps you would hurry for the office of the nearest neurologist. But in Los An geles. when you see the same things, it's merely a sign that you are one of those fortunate personages who have been able to make entrance into a moving picture lot.
 This Tot" once you get behand the row of dull gray wooden offices that guard it from the street, is not a mere city itself; it is myriad cities Ihe monstrous glass roofed studio, where the indoor scenes are filmed, may. In its mammoth confines, be the center of a love scene in the drawing room and a stormy quarrel in the bou- doir. and tense financial smash-up tn the office or bank. and a card crisis at the club, and the plunge of an auto mobile into a lake all at one and the same time. The facilities are there.
 Lake Is Merely a Tank
 It is true that the lake is merely a tank. but, with that exception. every detail of every scene will be perfect. The drawing room will be furnished in the choicest of period furniture and the boudoir will be a marvel of luxury and color harmonies. and its club will be a perfection of massive richness.
 Color-it's an important thing in the pictures. By the way, one learns in Los Angeles that one mustn't call 'em movies: it hurts the feelings of the picture people just as woefully as 1t hurts Dr. Hornaday's feelings, in New York's Bronx park, when his Zoologi- cal Garden is called a Zoo-and every one knows that that simply must not be done. The pictures. then, set, great importance on the value of colors in their desired effects.
 Meet for instance, Mrs. Ethel Chaf- fin, designer and wardrobe manager for the Famous Players-Lasky people She is busy fitting six publicity dresses on Mary Niles" as she calls the golden curled little Minter girl but sheIl. let you peep at Mary while she does it. and will come and talk with you later on managing a moving picture wardrobe.
 Success vs. Failure
 Mary is really very charming-one of the women. it would seem, who have a baby pink and -white-and- -goldness of beauty and grown-up brains and ability to work hard. plus screen per sonality. Mary was once a Los An geles high school girl-and her fairy tale success, well press-agented, is one of those that lure hundreds of com monplace girls to Los Angeles witl the thought: "If she could do it, SC can L" Mary. of course, is one of the few lucky ones. The girls who fail do not have press agents.
 But let's forget. momentarily, the girls who fail; peep into this little dressing room-it's very like those with which every department store is equipped for the fitting of gowns and see Mary Miles and her publicity wardrobe" Mary Miles is being fitted into a draper suit of heavy gray duvetyn and gray squirrel fur. It i very becoming to her piquant feature and her blue eyes and her wreathinl mass of golden curls. But she vii never wear it. and she will nevel wear any of the five other costume that lie heaped on chairs or hang ol hooks in all the rainbow glitter O afternoon gowns and dinner gowns an theater gowns and dinner gowns.
 For Publicity Only
 This wardrobe was ordered by tn New York offices, if you please, fo publicity purposes only. They are f1 models, designed especially and exclu sively for Mary Miles' by Mrs. Chai