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PREDICTING THE FASHIONS — BY VIVIAN MARTIN
"If all of a sudden I go mad and commence tearing dresses into bits, don't be a bit surprised," laughed Vivian Martin as she perched on a railing at the Paramount studios, swinging her bare feet, and attired as a ragged "newsboy."
"I have just found out recently that thousands of young girls throughout the country are looking to me to give them the latest modes in youthful feminine fashions, and I want to tell you that I am in a terrible predicament. You know," she explained, "we usually finish a picture three or four months before its appearance on the screen, and sometimes feminine fashions are changed practically overnight .
"Now then," here a dainty hand waxed eloquent, "how am I going to know when a picture is taken, what the styles will be by the time it is released? Trying to guess, is what is causing me so much worry.
"The dress that I wear in a picture now may be completely obsolete by the time it is shown on the screen, and if I anticipate too far what the styles will be, I am likely to strike it entirely wrong and in consequence many hundreds of my little friends will be sadly misinformed. It is a great responsibility. Fortunately, however, I have a very good friend in New York City who is one of the leading designers for a famous Fifth Avenue shop, and as a general rule she is able to advise me as to what the styles will be several months in advance.
"Even then, of course, there is always the fear that she may be wrong or mistaken, because no one is infallible on a question like that, so if you ever see me surrounded by magazines, tearing some beautiful frock to bits, you will know that my poor mind has given way under the strain.
"I think everybody will like 'The Trouble Buster' because it is so cheery and funny in these days when so many of us often need to be cheered up. While it is not in any way a sermon, still, it contains a number of thoughts, which if anyone could remember them, would help over many a hard half hour. Little Michelna, the plucky heroine, has a hard fight for it, but she 'arrives' with flying colors at the end, and wears gorgeous dresses."
Vivian Martin in "The Trouble Buster, " will bejwaiting to cheer you up at the Theatre on
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