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Second Act of “The Quaker Girl” Shows Parisian Salon of Modiste, Be prepared, oh ye feminine high brows, who aim at political honors and other spheres of usefulness than the old-fashioned ones attributed to women, to doff your hats to the homely art of dressmaking, for it is held up to the world, on no less conspicuous a platform than the stage, to be at the very root of all progress, social, financial or any other kind. In “The Quaker Girl,” which is coming to the Grand, Wed nesday and Thursday, there is, in the second act, a Parisian dressmak er's salon, where exquisite gowns are displayed on beautiful models and the mistress of the salon is Madame en portrayed by Andree Cor ay. Miss Corday is very much in love with her role, simply for the joy she gets out of handling those lovely cos tumes. According to her, the world owes a debt of gratitude to the makers of beautiful clothes. “Who doesn’t enjoy looking at a beautiful object?” says Miss Corday. “And what is more fascinating than a cos tume designed to set off to advan tage the beautiful lines of the hu man figure, in colors that suggest flowers in spring and softness of texture that brings back again child ish dreams of fair gauzes? A love ly woman beautifully dressed is a sight to gladden the gloomiest of days and is the one bit of silver that shines through and gladdens the lives of care-ridden masculinity. “There are some women in the world who, like Alice Hogan Rice's ‘Lovey Mary,’ have been brought up to believe that the Lord meant them to be plain and they don’t dare thwart the designs of Providence. But the dowdy woman can never be a success. Fine feathers may not make fine birds but they certainly help the birds that wear them to get attention and recognition for a few minutes, anyway, long enough to give them a chance to show what they can do. “The trouble about being dowdily dressed is that it seems to indicate a careless spirit and one that is unob servant of the trend of the times. The woman who is conscious of be ing nicely and appropriately dressed has an air of assertive confidence which is apt to impress everyone with whom she comes in contact. Of course, I don’t mean the kind of tessing that is merely for display not to attract attention, but rather has attention to becoming color a nd fastidious neatness which makes the simplest costume a thing of eauty and a pleasure to all con erned,”
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San Antonio Light
San Antonio, Texas, US
Sun, Nov 10, 1912
Page 25
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