Christy Cabanne — Real Tales About Reel Folk (1914) 🇺🇸

W. Christy Cabanne, Majestic director, is being compelled these days to wear a new hat. Anybody who knows the motion picture director’s predilection for a battered, old “lid” will appreciate the penalty.

Mrs. Cabanne purchased the hat. Like the average woman, she was determined that it should be large enough to be becoming. She has no use for a derby which merely perches on the top of a man’s head — so Cabanne cheerfully is wearing one which rests on his ears.

On arriving at the studio the other morning, he received a lot of free advice, relative to throwing away the latest addition to his wardrobe and buying another about one-half its size. It was hinted that even with all the glory he is reaping these times, modest Christy would never be able to fill that hat.

But Cabanne, who puts his wife’s pleasure before any such little kidding as he may get from the company informed his critics that the derby was her birthday present to him — and that he would pose for his picture in it on the spot.

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W. Christy Cabanne and his new hat

Collection: Reel Life Magazine, October 1914

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