- Narrator: The wardrobe for period pictures costs considerably more than for modern films and from them often comes a fashion. For to date, the wardrobe expense for MGM's "Pride and Prejudice" probably will exceed $75,000.
- Narrator: Adrian, Hollywood's foremost studio designer, who creates the styles for the stars of Metro Goldwyn Mayer, probably has done more to influence style trends the world over than any other designer.
- Narrator: In Hollywood, style center of the world, celebrated designers create the film fashions that set the styles for all the world to follow.
- Mary: [In dress shop] You say it's the same as Joan Crawford wears in a new picture?
- Saleslady: It's styled the same, and it *definitely* reflects the Hollywood influence.
- Mary: [Turning to her seated father] Dad, may I have it?
- Mary's Father: It's yours.
- Narrator: The motion picture has annihilated space, blotted out the backwoods, and banished what was once our custom to call: the country. Today, the girl from the country is just as modern and dresses just as smartly as her big-city sister.
- Mary: [On telephone, excitedly] Will I go? It's a date! Bye, bye.
- [Hanging up phone and turning toward her mother]
- Mary: A date with Jim! Now the time to remind Dad about that new dress he promised me.
- Mary's Mother: You certainly should.
- Mary's Mother: [first lines;on the phone] Hello? Oh, thank you, Jim. Good to hear from you. Yes, I'll call her. Mary. She'll be here in just a minute.
- [last lines]