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Si r0UU THOUSAND a woqkl Thiuk of it! W I SoH,1 kc a Krewstcr's Millions, fable, docsu't )J it? It isn't,- Ibougli. It's real money which' Ml "io in evory buvi-n tlnys Pis into thc pc.r WBk -Ui manicured and exquisitely shaped hands oE Mis Billie Burke for her services as .star in the Rrippinc Kerlal now in thc makiug nnd soon to be released to thc public. When thc authorities who control my working days and regulate my weekly stipend odvi&od mc that a trip to New York to interview MiBa Burke on things of beauty had been scheduled for mc I was regretful that I had never taken advantage of the opportunity to see Miss Burke on the stage. But when I arrived at the btudio in New York awav un hi One. Hundred and W Seventy-fifth street my first glimpge of her made me glad I had not seen her before. Otherwise I should not have known at that moment the thrill of admiration admira-tion which a first view of an exquisite picture evokes. I knew she was pretty exquisitely pretty! Several Sev-eral years ago in my Christmas gifts was included a handsome photograph frame. I looked about for a picture pic-ture to fill it. I was browsing around the morgue one day (thc morgue bciug the newspaper application for the room where photographs and information arc liled systematically and orderly) and I lighted upon a photograph of Miss Burke. It wasn't many hours afterward aft-erward until it was in my frame. And there it has stayed ever since. The light in thc hair and in the eyes and the smiling mouth gave thc wearing quality to thc picture which iuakcs it as attractive today as when I first framed it. But photography cannot flatter Miss Burke. It requires re-quires n Hcnncr to portray thc rcd-glducss of her hair and thc milk-whiteness of her skin and the slender girl-ishncss girl-ishncss of her figure. As she stepped into thc little waiting parlor from her diessing room at thc studio I was sorry that such adjectives as adorable, exquisite, and lovely have beeu made so commonplace by overuse. They were thc threp words that occurred to me, and they meant their full meaning as applied to her. In addition to her wondrous won-drous head of burnished gold hair and deep blue eyes fringed with long, dark lashes, and a mouth of laughing laugh-ing curves closing over perfect teeth, and as perfect features as one can sec, she has a poise and charm and a kindliness really hypnotizing. At a first meeting we had not much time to talk clue to an interruption by the director of the movie , pictures calling for thc little star to start work. So 'an interview was planned for the following evening at her lovclj home up on thc Hudson, about thirty miles away from New York. Of this fairyland place 1 shall tell you more in a later article. " How docs it feel to be the highest priced movie Htar in thc world?" was thc first question I put to the little lady with golden locks, inwardly marveling at how so tiny and so feminine a little creature could handle such a responsibility as ?4,000. (I have a way of thinking huge salnries are horrible responsibilities just to keep myself good na lured, you know.) But modesty being one of her best assets, Miss Burke brushed the question aside with a becoming little laugh. There is far too much gray matter under those frivolous frivo-lous curls and too much kindliness back of her deep blue eyes to harbor egotism in the face of any salary, no matter how fabulous. So. finding her reluctant to talk about herself in mo far as her success In thc movies is concerned, and mv mission being other than that, I veered the conversation conversa-tion around to the universal woman's topic dress. And there I found her just like any other woman in her willingness to talk on dress, and just like any other woman in her -love of dress, but possessing far more clothes than auy other woman I ever knew. She was wearing a sapphire blue velvet dinner dress cut on straight Grecian lines, with gathered seini-high waist line and flowing sleeves of palest yellow chiffon. Her hair was done into a fountain of curls piled high on her well shaped head. She was a picture that will lcmaln in mj' memory for some time. Thc day before I had seen her in a blue frock. " You arc partial to blue," Isaid. " There are shades of blue that are most becoming to women of my coloring, for day wear especially. I i know it is a popular theory that other colors arc happier hap-pier choices for red haired people, but if discretion is used and thc right shade of blue struck I think there is no better color," And certainly the gown she wore of sapphire blue proved conclusively that thc right tone of blue brings out thc gold in red hair and adds depths of color to blue eyes and whiteness to thc skin. " You do not favor blues ior evening dress, then?" I suggested. " There arc other colors I find more becoming. I am especially fond of suffrou shades. I might Bay that ray favorite colors, if I may repeat myself, arc paffrons for evening wear and blues for day. Pale yellows I include, with the deep orange or saffrons. Fale greens, too, I'm very fond of, and, of course, white and black are standard colors for us red haired women." " Do you feel the color restriction that is generally felt by red haired girls?" I asked her. I realized that was a foolish question a few minutes min-utes later when Miss Burke took me upstairs and showed me her wardrobe. "Of course, I think greater discictlon has to be nscd regarding colors by the red haired woman than by others. But I thoroughly believe the eyed have to ba fttudicd more than the hair. If one's eyes are pale blue, for instance, a shade of blue should be choaep to give depth of coloring. Very pale blues or blues of definite colorings are not flattering to such eyes, whereas eyes of dark blue need not be nearly so discriminating dis-criminating as to the shades of blue to adopt. And bo it is with other colors. "There are shades of saffron worn in the daytime that will rob hair, eyes, nnd skin of color," she continued. con-tinued. " And these same shades may bo worn becomingly becom-ingly at night." I was surprised to sec in Miss Burke's wardrobe a decided partiality, for corals. I commented upon It to her. i 'illlD " I'm very partial to coral," she said, throwing a yjj f coral evening coat over her pretty shoulders. fl ! To be sure she could wear it, but I cannot imagine njln many other women of her coloring showing to ad- IjjjU vantage in it. A wide white fur collar separated thc jy coral from her hair, but I was a little sorry that she is ijl so fond of this color, for while It gave her complexion hR a pretty pink glow it did rob her hair of some of its fit I glory. But then she's pretty, and therefore pardonable. jyli And one so pretty could not commit a very serious in- jjj j discretion in a matter of choice of color. I should not '11 1! recommend this color for wear by red haired girls gj r unless they were owners of as milkwhitc skins and jjj K young girlish complexions as is Miss Billio Burke. It jjj l Is a color for youth. For this reason she can wear it! Jjj 1 1 I really don't believe that there is a color manufac- p turcd that this little star could not wear attractively. I " I believe that the rule of wearing thc color that wv flatteis thc eyes most is the rule that every woman J should adopt, no matter what her coloring or type," Jtj , said Miss Burke, summing up thc color situation re- yj Hi garding dress. fl i I noticed an absence of the hooped skirts in Miss u Burke's wardrobe. Just three or four of her dresses 1 1 are made that way. jj " I prefer thc straight lines," s,aid Mi6S Burke. "They Off arc more youthful, I think." fflf " I suppose yu have shoes for every dress," I ven- lj turcd. vm For answer, Miss Burke opened a closet door and I il(j laughed outright at the sight of so many shoes. I gjjll laughed with an unrestrained, childish glee! Here SUI was a dream of mine made a reality. It didn't matter 1 1 that the reality "was some one else's. That shoe clopct nil was a joy! an One hundred pairs I counted at a rapid calculation gll ! of nine shelves at so many per shelf, and then I dis- W covered I had not included the twenty-four or twenty- five pairs on the floor of the closet. Then, after I had fi made another rapid mental calculation, I turned to dis- i cover a shoe bag hanging on thc door with at least ten ;l moic pairs of bedroom slippers, and so forth. J ' More than ISO pairs of shoes! I never saw so many j shoes of ouc size gathered together before. I had hard pj work suppressing a foolish desire to ask Miss Burke if S she raised shoe trees in her big back yard. wj There was every color and every description of shoe j black, white, and tan; evening shoes and walking shoes; y golfing boots and skating boots; pumps black satins. B I white satins, and patents; velvet slippers; brocaded W cening shoes sometimes combined with French patent J leather and sometimes not; shoes of wonderful Persian jjj mateiial; a dozen or more buckskin sports boots, both l - high and low; and embroidered satin boots costing from 5u ?o0 up. And Miss Burke confided to mc that she had ordered some new Bhocs which were to cost $100 a pair. ! A small fortune was represented by the buckles of va- l nous sizes and brilliancy on thc shoes, several pairs o MB these buckles costing $7o. M "I have all my shoes made by " (n-aming a M bootmaker who will not make a shoe less than ?2o), M said Miss Burke. " I guess I'm what you call a crank Jj on shoes. 1 gic as much care and thought to the jSM shoes I wear with a gown as to the article of dress it- j self. If economy were necessary 1 should economize rtJ on my dress rather than on my shoes, for a smartly (M dressed foot nowadays will excuse any number of short- jljjj comings.'" Imi " That last remark wac not meant to be facetious," M i she laughed. But between you and me I don't believe economy IjJ on dress will be an early future troublo of this golden W haired star. jj "Would you feel that " necessity " were stmdowing you it your clothes closet (a commonplace name, indeed, for so large and pretentious a wardrobe as Miss j Burke's) could show a $13,000 Russian sable coat, a $12,000 ermine coat, and a $9,000 chinchilla coat; L a blue and gold and metal embroidered evening coat M trimmed with silver fox valued at $2,500 and these A only four of twenty other coats for best wear? Or. if W you had two dozen dinner gowns nnd as many even- I j ing dresscp. one with diamond shoulder straps and. one Ml of laco which cost $150 a yard? Or a dozen "incx- j pensive" little street dresses of serge or something else i at $S5 or $95 apiece? Four or five seating costumes jj and a dozen sweater coats, some of silk and some of Mt) wool, and one real aristocratic sweater with ermino ; collar and cuffs? Afternoon dresses of satins and chlf- fous enough to allow a change every afternoon for two if weeks? p And lingerie l Lingerie enough for five average girls ij to pick a bridal supply from and still leave Miss Billie Burke" supplied, for years to come. U ' Seveaty-five ' dollars for one " nightie !" The 1 f " nightie " Miss Burke wears in one of the scenes in the t picture! And a negligee she throws About her shapely jll Bhoulders in the same scene costing tnc modest little JU sum of $275. I saw tfie bill. Thc negligee was a i brilliant peacock blue embroidered in gold and trimmed with orchid satin the loveliest thing of the kind I ever M saw. jllj Does It pay to be a movie star? M Well, next week I shall tell you some more things Mj about Miss Burke and you can draw your own con- elusions. JC In the meantime let us be glad that Miss Burke was UR thc chosen one, for she is young and beautiful and kind m and has brains enough to always keep herself thus. fift |
