Clothes and Stage

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 259, 29 July 1937, Page 6

Clothes and Stage

* Players Cannot Succeed if Badly Dressed Clothes make the film actor—or actress. Unless you have a varied wardrobe the screen hasn’t much use for you. . . . Miss Julie Sterman, a 19-year-old English film artist, revealed this fact when she told a Bow Street magistrate that, she took garments and jewellery valued at £lOOO because she had “no decent clothes of her own.” She explained that the lack of suitable dress prevented her from getting various jobs. A West End agent who specialises in the casting of crowds and small-part actors for film work endorsed her statement. "When a film aspirant comes to me I always ask.' 'What is your wardrobe like?'” the agent: explained to a reporter. “In private life small-part players should be well turned out —if they are not we just think their acting is as slovenly as their clothes. "It is only when you are on the way to stardom that the film or stage managements dress you.”