“DRESS EXTRES”

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 227, 27 September 1935, Page 10

“DRESS EXTRES”

ARISTOCRATS OF HOLLYWOOD. . ABILITY TO WEAR CLOTHES. There, is a certain group of players in Hollywood who must dress for din ner—and for breakfast and supper, too. For if they don’t dress, they can't get jobs, and if they can’t get jobs they can't eat. They’re the ‘dress extras,” the aristocrat of their class. In Grace Moore’s new Columbia Picture “Love Me Forever,’’ a drama set to music, .150 of these “dress extras” are employed in one scene. It is the “Cafe Marguerite’’ sequence, in which Miss Moore is, according to the story, making her debut as a singer in n smart New York night club. Everything about the scene bespeaks of grandeur, it is the sort of rendezvous patronised by only the better—or rather, more wealthy—class of people. That is exactly what those “dress extras” are supposed to represent. Many of them were just that before hard times befell them. They get .15 to 25 dollars a day for their services. They don’t have to possess acting, singing or dancing ability, facial handsomeness or beauty is not a requisite. •Clothes and their ability to wear them properly make the difference. They must possess a complete and fashionable wardrobe forth from 1500 to 2000 dollars.

Every group of “dress extras” includes a couple of barons and countesses. Others also come from the most polished walks of life, people who once were wealthy and have nothing left but the clothes on their back—which they carry well. In “Love Me Forever,” Grace Monro is supported by Leo Carrillo, Michael Bartlett, Robert Allen and others.

Grace Moore’s second big production, “Love Mo Forever,” will have its New Zealand premiere at the Mayfair Theatre, Christchurch, on .September 20. There are three leading men in “Love Me, Forever”—Leo Carillo, Michael Bartlett (a Metropolitan operatic tenor), who accompanies Miss Moore in a number of singing sequences, and Robert Allen.