Show F Society Hour Means Girls a Sayan Say Great an H How L S Should hId I It t T Take k W Women to Dress D Zo Zoe King Barnett Dodo and Chorus nd the Burnt of Speed When Fong on a e a oman ress Girls Say Four to Sue Raiment e is Donned Minutes t Is Enough Q fx wg PaTS v Y 1 r le c 11 S a SA I f v L j gE v r T at J C d den vr en q o rat M 4 abs t r yR y Y j te CY t t T i 5 ri y YC o oS S F S 3 ay w a aZ Z ev r H k 4 fN x r rys raf F yip Sa a J s sP r rw w i by a Y P V aJ 3 xa dh y S i v a aI a r ry rJ I S v y J fl fla S a t d y 4 A r Fy J Se Set t 4 r w J I 1 Zoe Barnett and thorns in the ensemble scene from Act ct 1 of King Bang Dodo h HE problem ot of how long It should THE T take a woman to dress has puzzled the world since the beginning ot of time No record has been made of It ItIn itin In history and there Is so far as has been learned no authority as to whether er or not Adam became peeved at atthe atthe the time It required Eve to don her fig leaf leat before they went apple hunt huntIng hunting Ing In the Garden ot of Eden In mod modern modern ern times as well as ancient It seems to be an with the fair sex sexto sexto to keep masculine escorts waiting whether It pleased the gentlemen or not Cleopatra really reany required but a afew afew few seconds to array herself herselt to receive callers yet she rushed quickly into hito the favor tavor ot of Anthony after atter having kept him waiting while she garbed herself herselt In a afew afew few laces and gauze and jewels for the reception It Is the same tOday Modern women that Is the great majority of them take their own time to dress no matter what hurry the brother or lover may be In to reach the opera Hurry up dear the taxi Is waiting does oes not appear to have the least leat effect upon their efforts The proper time for arraying one self for tor sayan say an evening at the theatre Is one hour says the society woman No woman who values and under understands understands stands the art of making herself at attractive attractive attempts to dress In less than tho that t Surprise me with an Invitation to the theatre and Ill be ready In an hour anyway says the debutante Six or seven minutes says the ac actress actress tress Anyone can do It In that time and often less and we look just as beautiful as any who occupy the boxes as a rule Who Is right One dresses for the pleasure ot of It the other do does s It all In Inthe Inthe the days work Who Is the more qualified I to speak on the subject Are the society women who assert that an hour Is the shortest period In which they i can accomplish the donning ot of their feminine garments or the girls who i wear eight or ten different costumes I during the course ot of two hours and a half to have the final say In this much I discussed question There Is a wide divergence between the time estimates ot of these authorities so 60 that those whose morning gown requires an hours adjustment the matter of at or disrobing a prin cipal or chorus girl may otter offer unique suggestions Certainly husbands who walt wait and suffer sutter will be Interested In how haw to dress In six or seven minutes In the cast of King Dodo Is Miss Zoo Zoe Barnett who gives her personal o opinion Several of the chorus girls who have even more changes to tomake tomake make during the performance ot of the opera add their assertions to the argument argument ment that the society women are wrong The illustrations tha that are given onn on this page show the changes that are made and thE length ot of time that I required to n make ke them The dressing room at the theatre In which th these le changes are made Is typical of all elm sim simIlar liar Ilar rooms In theatres In which h rapid changes are are Miss Barnett Is shown In the first picture In simple simple gown apparently u un unconscious 1 conscious ot of time while she Jests with witha a dramatic Six minutes lat later r she Is singing the fIrst ensemble num number number ber with the chorus In another pic picture picture ture she Is se seen n In still a different cos costume tume It Is to this she maltes her fast tast fastest est change chan e The time she Is allowed Is just five minutes It remains for the chorus girls to break these thelle records A picture shows them In their dressing room with only omy f four ur minutes to dress for the big num number nu n her ber The Tale of a Bumble Bee In which they are later seen with Miss Barnett ILS as Annette and William Friend as King they have no maid to help them either They have to be dressed with absolute cor correctness correctness Society women who require one hour make no excuses for tor lack of proper gowning ot of the chorus girl The layman may Insist that the tho gowns are only hung and are not built as substantially as clothes but quite the reverse Is true In both c cyses ses for modiste was never more par particular with her patrons In society than the wardrobe mistress whose charges are responsible to her for tor their dress dressIng dressing Ing The performance Of King Dodo lasts about two hours and twenty minutes The chorus girls have many changes to make minutes are spent In dres dressing and changing minutes before the audience and ana the tho balance of the time they have for rest and waits walts In n the wings And the problem still sUll remains How lCJ Icing g should It take for a woman to dress a y N r 4 i S Ih Cw 2 Wk y v u y P 3 A 3 gY 0 Wt A I r 2 v cr sr J rL 3 w e 4 k e r b 2 i t S h ha a 4 i P i r iwYan h 5 Y d a Y ya d S SY C x v P x ER w 2 YF r haS ag n E b W e S ti x Jt h rg a o a St S j S s u u ar 5 i i t WW 5 gt i T t u rdE a is r u tl 1 i 11 t t t f t tRiM RiM t Yi s i 4 F x M fi tC x kL aa r 1 A 4 Mf Uw 1 1 1 f t W 1 y t tv I v dj 1 r J M fg H h R A J t P Nf K a 4 t 4 d r r za b a CY l r q t w t z l tt t S f cb 7 S rR q y Y k tug x 4 tie fix 2 ii t I Iya r is ya T 4 E ir d spa r H 5 4 4 a r 1 f fY Y Sst r Chorus Chams girls in their dressing room with four minutes to dress for the Bumble Bee number Miss Barnett as she talks to the dra Miss Barnett six minutes later as matie matic critic I Annette |