Show f Players 1 Refuse Dress o of Historic Regime I I By BOBBIN ROBBIN COONS HOLLYWOOD Motion lotion picture directors meet many maD queer problems but a novel noel dIrectorial woe has come cometo I to light here it represents a con con- met filet between tradition and the re- re I of eef historical accuracy accuracy- re-I re and strange as as it may seem eem In a practical business like this of pIcture making tradition won and the inaccuracy in- in I accuracy was filmed While only i deeply deely learned students ot of Chinese lore Jore may note and scoff at the discrepancy ds- ds there it is is none the less The picture In QuestIon Is a romanCe romance ro- ro manCe ot of imp China and 1 is I rap ed entire entirely I in natural colors I Th The studios studio's research department painstakingly investigated the Costuming costuming cos- cos I of the period and as a result result re- re sult the court dress as reproduced was dermed authentic I But the robes were presented present present- ed the pla players ers they refused to don them The old Chinese tradition that the color was sacred to the ruling family to be worn orn only by b Immediate members thereof influenced them to prefer another shade even een though th the monarchy monarch it hal loved lo now is dead So Do a compromise was as effected d and orange gold was used instead o of the historically histo proper shade |