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Wear Tkat!
cry of the directors, for there can be or even — but let Miss Gebhart tell you.
Gebhart
and to an ingenue that note of sweetness, misbehave awfully. They clatter more than any other beads. During the filming of an articulate chorus sequence of "Burlesque," three strings of pearls worn by each stepper created the effect of Lupe Velez in action. So the little oysters may keep their valuable contents, so far as the screen is concerned. You may see your favorite roped in pearls in still photos, but not often in the eloquent movies.
It was discovered that pearls worn by Miss Lee Patrick, 'in scenes for "Strange Cargo." clicked. Lee mightn't, with them — so off they came.
Costume pictures may be rendered obsolete, unless substitutes for crinoline and brocades
"Too noisy for words!"
would be the verdict against
Norma Talmadge's Parisian
frock.
A flapper in apple green and gold spangles, Bessie Love shows what they're not wearing now.
Photo by Bull
Photo 'by Bull
The phone would make
a roar of the swishing
of Joan Crawford's
cape.
Photo by Itl.licc
Fay Wray's
dress patters
itself out of the
talkies.
are devised. And what about the hero's coat of mail? Whose voice, even a Xagel's, could project an oral bomb over the clank of armor?
Soundless sartorial splendor. Three commonplace words, but when linked together they present a problem which is graying the thatches of designers, and giving camera men the rabies.
Even silk hose and lingerie have been known to announce their presence by rustling. The stars may be forced to wear cotton stockings, even when not cast in ragged roles!
Lilyan Tashman appeared on a set, an exclamation point of chic. Her frock had that bandbox crispness, her Bangkok a silk ribbon band, her costume jewelry was in perfect taste. But oh, what a vocabulary she gave to the mike, besides her own dialogue ! Having heard the echo of the ensemble, in the "play back," she agreed that noiseless dresses would be better.
"I couldn't stand the competition," she said, but added, "however, that outfit did speak Paris better than any label." A girl was called aside and asked, by a stammering director, if she wore silk bloomers, as a curious crackle could be accounted for in no other way. Only when she retired to her dressing room, and sent her maid out to a dollar store for plebeian cotton lingerie could the scene be filmed.
One line of girls appeared for a chorus dance; there was. as an overture, one might say, an odd rustle imperceptible to the ear, but which made a squeak through the mike : with the full ensemble kicking and prancing about, the "mixer" man in the glass box signaled frantically. The scene was stopped when he explained that their silk skirtlets had the power, though not the harmony, of a symphony orchestra. _ [Cont'd on page 107]