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Sets that Represent Fortunes
This set for "Ashes of Vengeance" contains some rare and lovely pieces from the rich store of United Studios.
periods are most frequently seen where lavish wealth and luxuriousness are demanded. The furniture you see with massive and grand lines is of the period of Louis XIV. ; the overelaboratiori of mounted ornaments, twisted curves and fanciful details is of the period of Louis XV., and the sober and sedate lines with jewellike metal work is of the period • of Marie Antoinette. Following these come the Directoire and First Empire styles."
Mr. Little frankly declares most of the stage furniture is merely in imitation of the old masters. If all the pieces from boudoir sets which were said to have been owned and used by Marie Antoinette were placed under one roof, the collection would cover a city block. And if all the so-called Chippendales were similarly assembled, they would stock a warehouse. Yet Thomas Chippendale had only a small factory in London when he won immortality as a furniture designer dur
eighteenth
blowing with a antique
ing the latter part of the century.
The property manager is conversant with the method of "worm holes" into wood shotgun to make it look and of the difference between a fin ish given to woods by beeswax dissolved in turpentine and rubbed intermittentlv for years and a finish supplied by paint and varnish as is done in modern times. The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio in Culver City uses a four-story brick building to house its collection
A corner of a studio candlesticks, vases,
of props, valued at approximately three hundred thousand dollars. It owns few real antiques but has, on the other hand, some of the most exquisite pieces of modern furniture to be found. It has one thousand chairs valued all the way from fifty cents to four hundred dollars each. It devotes a whole section of the building to rugs and tapestries. It maintains its own manufacturing rooms, its own upholstering plant and employs the most skilled workmen it can find. It could outfit a complete gambling hall with faro, roulette, baccarat and other gaming tables and it could from its silverware department set a perfectly appointed court dinner. E. B. Willis but recently returned from New York, where he bought nearly twenty thousand dollars' worth ofnew material to be used in scenery for picture making.
Metro-Goldwyn some months ago from its prop room and craft shops, duplicated a section of Maxim's restaurant in Paris when it filmed "The Merry Widow." It reproduced the stage of Ziegfeld's "Follies" in "Pretty Ladies," and its cathedral scene, previously mentioned, was one of the most beautiful ever built on the West coast.
The Lasky studio, where Cecil De Mille has filmed so many gorgeous pictures during recent years, has an enormous sum invested in props, largelv of French and Italian design, and Universal has an equally large amount.
prop room where the et cetera, are kept.