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The Old Days End 231
for the women), Miss Gish spied Louise Orth one day wearing just the very thing her little heart craved.
"Oh, what a lovely gown you have on. Where did you buy that?"
Madame Frances then had a tiny shop on Seventh Avenue, near the Palace Theatre: Polly Heyman had Bon Marche gloves on one side and Frances had gowns on the other. Frances had just made some thousands of dollars' worth of gowns for Valeska Surratt's show, "The Red Rose," which were so beautiful they won Mme. Frances prestige and recognition from Al Woods. Miss Orth had been a member of the Eltinge show for which Mme. Frances had made the dresses, which is the long story of how Lillian Gish got her first Frances gown.
The K. & E. pictures were going to be "dressed up," and we were being allowed about seventy-five dollars for gowns. Miss Gish's selection at Mme. Frances's was pricetagged eighty-five dollars; so back to the studio flew Miss Gish. With as much pep as she had, which wasn't so much, she slunk up to her director and coaxingly said:
"Mr. Griffith, I must have that dress, it's just beautiful ; it's just what I must have for the part, and it costs eightyfive dollars."
"Who in the world ever heard of eighty-five dollars for a dress?"
"I don't care — now — I've got to have it."
"Don't bother me — it's too expensive — we cannot afford it."
Then growing bolder, as she followed him about she reached for his coat-tail, and twisting it and shaking it she implored :