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John Gilbert's contract gives him the most elaborate houselet.
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The studio cottages are barometers of a star's popularity as surely as box-office reports, and the maisonnettes tell much more: peep into them and you will learn something of your favorite — , . i i i
by the frills and the colors you see there. By Myrtle debhart
Till" purpose of dressing rooms used t<> he strictly utilitarian. But that was before the movie ordered strand clothes and grew its long hob.
The one room shared by all the women was succeeded by private nooks, which now are replaced by small houses of a compact perfection. A social aura endows these studio abodes of the film aristocrats with a certain distinction. Visiting celebrities arc made to feel at home in their informal eclat, friends drop in for tea, and interviewers are entertained at lunchi
Dressing-room luxury is as eloquent a barometi current popularity and studio supremacy as box-office reports. These are habitable homes, charmingly furnished. Featured actors rate elaborately appointed twoi suites, until they merit the stellar maisonnettes of four, five, or even six rooms. While the achievement of beauty is the primary thought in tion, for its psy
chological influence upon high-keyed temperaments, the practical side i< not overlooked. reaching to the
ceiling", with side and overhead spotlights, ample cedarlined closets with compartments for shoes, has. and access and shelves hidden by gay flounces, expedite the changing of costume.
Each new star is given a miniature residence of suitable dignitv. If a contract player complains of discrimination, the slight can be assuagrd only by a still more ostentatious bungalow — or perhaps sterling-silver doorknobs !
Seasonal fads in decoration upsel stellar temperament,
until the houselets are all done over in keeping with the current craze.
An extreme idea prevails, either tly magnitude
or its antitl eming simplicity artfully contrived.
Few are just comfortably inconspicu
In several of the humble are hung with valances of challi-. pamico cloth, and silkvoile or organdie, and drapes an glish pi mercerized silks, and dotted sv )uaint effects arc achieved in couch c nd pillov ingham and calico, a scheme found along Fox lane. The m I tidii these have dressing tables that appear to be old-fashioned coquettish ma with t' feta skirts spread out aroun ' I'nbleached inland denim are used in the met
If a borrowed player rat' he must be ! that courtesy. Roth his com
and his own studio's prestige must be considered, usual practice i^ to better his surroundhv^ uch,
one suspects, in magnanimity, a< a gesture of vanity to remind him that the second companv do< ade
more grandly than his regular emplovers.
The actors make much less fuss about dressing-room
rank when "visiting" than do their executive-. When
lent Edmund Lowe to United Artists, they insisted
upon a suite. The only one available was that just vacated