Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-06-12

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ut would have been worth an easy
$4,000 to me had been able to
catch n bunch of moving views OF
President and Mrs. Roosevelt. and
their daughter, Miss Ethel, riding
their horses through that thunder and
wind and rainstorm between Alexan-
dria and Mt. Vernon afternoon last
said moving-picture man who Is
here with crew to take some mo-
ton Views of Washington scenes and
Incidents. but. of course, it's the
kind of stuff that there's no chance
for us to be tipped off on that's al
ways the best In the motion picture
line. You can imagine what hit "a
set of the moving pictures of the
President and his family rushing he'll
terskelter through that storm would
make II they could have been taken
and put on view throughout the coun
try. You people here In Washington
are pretty blase In the matter OF
Presidents and other eminent person,
ages, but It's wholly different through
out the rest Of the country, and the
moying-picture houses would've beer
able to stand 'em up for six months
With set of those storm views.
"a moving-picture man that know
did make an indirect proposition to
Mr. Roosevelt. some time ago. for n
set of moving views OF him taking
the hedges and stone fences on his
hunter. The man who made the prop
osition Is very fond of that photo
graph which portrays him In the act
of lifting his hunter over fence
But the idea for tho moving-picturt
set based OH the same thing was turn.
ed down by the President. on the
ground. l presume. that such set
wotld seem to make 1t appear as II
he We're posing Leforo the country.
Yet he actually did pose for that one
fence-jumping picture-it wasn't by
any means an impromptu snapshot
and | really can't see the differences
between posing fc- one picture and
posing for bunch of motion pictures
can you?
We're going to make considera
BILE number of motion sets here In.
Washington. This Is an ideal town
for our sort of work, for the folks
in Washington are less curious than
the people of any other city, for the
reason, 1 suppose, that there is SO
much to see here that nothing only
a little bit out of the common gets
any sort of rise out of them. In
most of the other cities our work Of
making motion views Is often seri.,
ously irterfercd with by slammers-in,
as we call them.
oyer in Newark, N. j., a few weeks
ago, for example. fixed up horse
whipping set. The first part of the
set was easy enough to get. 1t was
q scene in restaurant In which
pretty girl, seated at 4 little distance
away from another table at which
frolicsome man with q homely wife
are dining, falls to making the goo-goo
eyes at the man. The second scene,
in which arranged to have the horse
whipping take place, happened out.
side the restaurant. We'd got police
PERMISSION to make the views, and /
had three men stationed In front OF
the restaurant to keep the crowd back
while the bogus horsewhipping was
In progress. When everybody was
all set and tho machine was snap.
ping away at the homely wife laying
the lash across the face and shout
ders of the flirtatious girl-the lash
looked like rattan, but 1t was
phony, and of course, didn't hurt al
zap of man nudged in and grabbed
my homely woman by her lash-wield-
ing arm, bawling that he didn't be.
lieve in seeing no woman singing an
other woman like that, and that queer
ed our set OF films.
"The machine had to be stopped
while the big jay was being informed
that the thing was only tableau and
that he didn't belong anywhere in the.
picture. He took the jeers of the
crowd sourly, at that, and looked to
be in SO much of mind to kick our
gear to pieces that had to get q
cop to walk him down the street,
When we got all set again and the
horsewhipping of the flirtatious girl
was once more in progress, a scraw-
ny, hatchet-faced woman, who had
just joined the outer circle of the
crowd, and who wasn't next to what
was coming off, rushed into the
scene with squawk, grabbed my two
acting women by the hair and started
in to roughhouse them both for their
'indecency in fighting on the street.,
as she yelled at them.
"The machine had to be stopped
again. The incident that had fran.
ed up didn't call for anything like
that. had it arranged that after the
whipping had proceeded for space
the guilty husband of the homely
wife was to rush in and attempt to
separate the two women, when his
wife was to turn on him with the lash,
causing him to hotfoot down the
street. The girl with the flirtatious
eyes was to seize the whip from the
other woman's hands and start in to
get hunk for the cutting she'd re-
ceiyed, the scene ending up that way.
But had to throw q Gordon of cops
and employees around the front of the
restaurant before we could pull off
that end of the set, and by that time